完形填空（共20小题；每小题。1.5分，满分30分）
There are going to be moments in life when you must make very important decisions. You will find many people
36 to offer you advice if you ask for it (and even if you don’t), but always remember that the life you
37 is yours and nobody else’s. It’s important to decide for yourself what’s important to you and what you want before you
38 others. Because while there will be times
39 outside advice proves wise, there will be at least as many times when it proves completely
40.. The only way to really evaluate other folks’ advice is to first learn everything that you can about whatever challenge you are
41 . Once you’ve done that, in most cases you should be able to make a wise decision
42 anyway.
You were
43 with the ability to decide what is and what isn’t in your best interest. Most of the time, you will make the right decision and
44 the appropriate actions, and in thinking for yourself, you will become far more successful than if you had gone against your own
45 .
Early on in my investment career, I made the mistake of
46 a few important business decisions on colleagues’ opinions instead of conducting the
47 necessary to make a wise decision. It wasn’t due to
48 on my part; no one could ever accuse me of that. But, being
49 to Wall Street, I intended to assume that my more senior
50 knew more than I did, and so I
51 too much significance to their opinions.
You know what happened? Each of those investments ended in
52 . Eventually I stopped allowing myself to be influenced by
53 and began doing the work myself and making my own decisions. It took me until I was almost 30 years old to
54 this—it’s never too late for a person to change his approach both to
55 and
to life.
| 小题1: | | A．easy | B．ready | C．unwilling | D．hard |
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| 小题3: | | A．look at | B．pick up | C．turn to | D．learn from |
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| 小题4: | | A．that | B．since | C．when | D．while |
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| 小题5: | | A．useless | B．useful | C．priceless | D．clever |
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| 小题6: | | A．getting | B．making | C．suffering | D．facing |
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| 小题7: | | A．on one hand | B．on your own | C．on the whole | D．on all sides |
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| 小题8: | | A．born | B．tired | C．satisfied | D．covered |
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| 小题9: | | A．enjoy | B．step | C．plan | D．take |
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| 小题10: | | A．assumption | B．judgment | C．condition | D．fortune |
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| 小题11: | | A．basing | B．depending | C．relying | D．focusing |
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| 小题12: | | A．research | B．search | C．resources | D．activity |
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| 小题13: | | A．poverty | B．laziness | C．fear | D．diligence |
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| 小题14: | | A．used | B．accustomed | C．new | D．old |
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| 小题15: | | A．students | B．brothers | C．colleagues | D．classmates |
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| 小题16: | | A．attached | B．paid | C．gave | D．held |
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| 小题17: | | A．disaster | B．progress | C．failure | D．success |
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| 小题18: | | A．either | B．another | C．each | D．others |
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| 小题19: | | A．think | B．remember | C．realize | D．recall |
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| 小题20: | | A．payment | B．dreams | C．happiness | D．business |
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to life.