高考英语二轮复习：专题限时训练(三) [议论文型完形填空].docVIP

专题限时训练(三)　[议论文型完形填空] (限时：每篇15分钟) 　　　　　　　　　　　 AYears ago, when I was looking for my first job, wise advisers told me, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you __1__ than any amount of experience.” How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a(n) __2__ drive into an adventure, extra work into an opportunity and strangers into friends. “Nothing great was ever __3__ without enthusiasm.” wrote Waldo Emerson. It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be __4__ accepted. Yet she didnt stop working on her experiments. Work was such a deep __5__ for her that she never __6__ stopping. It is hope that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their __7__. At 90, musician Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach, which was an exciting thing that made life a never-ending __8__. Elizabeth Layton was 68 when she began to draw. This activity __9__ the depression that she had suffered from for 30 years, and the __10__ of her work led one critic (评论家) to say, “Elizabeth had rediscovered her __11__. ” How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, __12__ the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means “God within”. And “God within” is __13__ else but a sense of love—proper love of self that is self-acceptance and from that, love of others. Enthusiastic people also __14__ what they do, regardless of money or fame or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can do it as a part-time __15__. 1．A.further B．less C．better D．farther2．A.interesting B．long C．boring D．short 3．A.discovered B．achieved C．sought D．described 4．A.frankly B．generally C．honestly D．warmly 5．A.pleasure B．success C．feeling D．love 6．A.made up B．remembered of C．started with D．thought of7．A.thought B．energy C．look D．age 8．A.routine B．adventure C．trip D．tr