A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about
1 in work and life. Offering his
2 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and
3 with a large pot of coffee and a
4 of cups — porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful — telling them to
5 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “If you have
6 , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been
7 , leaving behind the plain and
8 ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the
9 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup
10 adds no quality to the coffee.
11 it is just more expensive and in some cases
12 hides what we drink.”
“
13 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup,
14 you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began
15 each other’s cups.”
“Now consider this:
16 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.
17 are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the
18 of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we
19 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don't let the cups
20 you… enjoy the coffee instead.”
| 小题1: | | A．stress | B．dream | C．sorrow | D．truth |
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| 小题2: | | A．friends | B．customers | C．fellows | D．guests |
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| 小题3: | | A．carried | B．returned | C．arrived | D．reached |
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| 小题4: | | A．kind | B．variety | C．sort | D．number |
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| 小题5: | | A．devote | B．expose | C．help | D．addicted |
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| 小题6: | | A．searched | B．witnessed | C．noticed | D．discovered |
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| 小题7: | | A．taken up | B．brought in | C．sold out | D．cut down |
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| 小题8: | | A．expensive | B．cheap | C．beautiful | D．usual |
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| 小题9: | | A．point | B．answer | C．source | D．result |
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| 小题10: | | A．by itself | B．on its own | C．for itself | D．itself |
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| 小题11: | | A．At no time | B．At times | C．In no case | D．In most cases |
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| 小题12: | | A．ever | B．even | C．never | D．hardly |
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| 小题13: | | A．What | B．That | C．Which | D．Whether |
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| 小题15: | | A．suspecting | B．liking | C．envying | D．eyeing |
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| 小题16: | | A．Love | B．Life | C．Future | D．Failure |
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| 小题18: | | A．quantity | B．style | C．quality | D．standard |
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| 小题19: | | A．have | B．hesitate | C．forget | D．fail |
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| 小题20: | | A．control | B．drive | C．puzzle | D．amaze |
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