A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.The conversation soon turned into____about stress in work and life.Offering his____coffee,the professor went to the kitchen and___with a large pot of coffee and a____of cups—porcelain,plastic glass,crystal,some plainlooking,some expensive,some exquisite (精致的),telling them to ____themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand,the professor said,“If you have____,all the nicelooking expensive cups have been____,leaving behind the plain and____ones.Of course,____it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves,that is the ____of your problems and stress.”
“It is sure that the cup itself____no quality to the coffee.____ it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we____.”
“What all of you really want is coffee,not the cup,but you went____for the best cups.And then you began____each other’s cups.”
“Now consider this:Life is the coffee;the jobs,__
1_and position in society are the cups.They are just tools to____and contain life,and the type of cup we have does not define,nor____the quality of life we live.Sometimes,by concentrating only on the cup,we____to enjoy the coffee.Value the coffee,not the cups!”
Don’t let the cups ____you.Enjoy the coffee instead.
小题1: | A.information | B.complaints | C.surprises | D.satisfaction |
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小题2: | A.friends | B.customers | C.guests | D.fellows |
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小题3: | A.carried | B.returned | C.arrived | D.brought |
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小题4: | A.kind | B.set | C.variety | D.group |
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小题5: | A.devote | B.expose | C.help | D.provide |
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小题6: | A.seen | B.discovered | C.recognized | D.noticed |
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小题7: | A.taken in | B.taken back | C.taken out | D.taken up |
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小题8: | A.cheap | B.dear | C.pretty | D.fantastic |
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小题9: | A.if | B.while | C.because | D.since |
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小题10: | A.resource | B.source | C.result | D.point |
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小题11: | A.increases | B.expands | C.extends | D.adds |
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小题12: | A.At no time | B.In most cases | C.In no case | D.At times |
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小题13: | A.drink | B.desire | C.eat | D.want |
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小题14: | A.happily | B.strangely | C.consciously | D.surprisingly |
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小题15: | A.suspecting | B.envying | C.considering | D.eyeing |
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小题16: | A.money | B.love | C.friendship | D.death |
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小题17: | A.offer | B.take | C.live | D.hold |
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小题18: | A.exchange | B.raise | C.change | D.create |
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小题19: | A.have | B.hesitate | C.forget | D.fail |
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小题20: | A.defeat | B.drive | C.decide | D.puzzle |
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