重庆市永川中学高2017级培优定时训练一.doc

重庆市永川中学培优定时训练一 （本试卷共6页，满分分考试时分钟第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised,?“Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.” How right they were!“Nothing great was ever done without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste (浆糊) that helps you hang in there when the things get tough. It is the inner voice that tells you, “I can do it!” when others shout, “No, you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a?geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didnt stop?working on her experiments. We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is the childlike wonder that gives?enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day?by playing the cello (大提琴). As the music flowed through his fingers, his shoulders would straighten and?joy would reappear in his eyes. As writer and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, Years wrinkle (起皱纹) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Enthusiastic people also love what they do, not considering money or title or power. Patricia Mellratl, a retired director in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, My father, long ago, told me, I never made any money until I stopped working for it. We cant afford to waste tears on might-have-been. We need to turn the tears into sweat as?we go after what-can-be. We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses finding?pleasure in the sweet of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a?rainbow. 21. What is the passage mainly talking about? A. Enthusiastic people will never get old. B. Enthusiasm is more important than experience.C. Enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life.D. Enthusiasm can give