Question

Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he  41   his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his extra expensive “school” fee. He always _42__ his success to it.

At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph.D. degree,  43    to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before leaving, he bought a Rolex watch with the   44  made through years of work after school and the scholarships. At the airport he had to accept the  45 customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be  taken down for   46 . Glen knew that carrying the specific goods out had to pay the tax, and he worried about paying  47  for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a  48  fake（假貨）. When he was  49  of his “smarts”, immediately, in the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch, 50  cost nearly 100,000, into pieces  51  hearing Glen’s words. Glen was  52 . Before he understood why, he was taken to the office to be examined 53  . For many times of entry-exit  54  he knew that only those people in the “blacklist” would “enjoy” this special treatment. The officers looked over everything carefully in the box, and  55  him no matter what time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if  56  reusing and carrying fake and shoddy goods, he would be  57  according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after boarding the plane for long.

     After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too. He said that this made a deep  58  on him, because the additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of  59  , which he would remember as the  60  of his success forever.

1. A. set up         B. took up       C. went up       D. picked up

2. A. honors         B. mentions          C. brings            D. owes

3.A. decided         B. refused       C. objected          D. asked

4. A. books              B. things        C. savings           D. pounds

5.A. ordinary       B. routine       C. regular      D. common

6.A. look            B. inspection     C. test            D. experiment

7.A. one             B. it            C. them              D. these

8.A priceless        B. useful        C. worthless         D. valuable

9. A. afraid             B. proud             C. ashamed       D. hard

10.A. that           B. what          C. as            D.  which

11. A. on           B. at            C. who          D. in

12. A disappointed       B. delighted         C. amazed        D. satisfied

13.A. strictly         B. quietly         C. quickly        D. curiously

14.A. conditions      B. experiences     C. experiments     D. chances

15. A. stopped        B. hoped         C. warned         D. urged

16.A. came out       B. found out      C. sent out         D. set out

17.A. hit           B. blamed        C. praised         D. charged

18.A. expression     B. idea           C. thought         D. impression

19.A. honesty       B. lies            C. goods          D. bravery

20.A. secret         B. lesson         C. choice          D. belief

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.D

3.A

4.C

5.B

6.B

7.B

8.C

9.B

10.D

11.A

12.C

13.A

14.B

15.C

16.B

17.D

18.D

19.A

20.A

【解析】

1.set up建立；成立;take up拿起；開始從事；go up上升；被興建；pick up恢復，拾起。由下文starting a company可知是Glen歸國成立了一家公司。

2.owe …to… 把……歸功于……。Glen 把自己的成功歸功于那次交了“昂貴學費”的經(jīng)歷。

3.根據(jù)后面的before leaving可知是他決定回國。decide to do sth.決定做某事， refuse及object都是不回國。

4.買表要用錢，這里指放學后打工掙的積蓄和獎學金得來的錢，不一定是英鎊（pound）。

5.根據(jù)上文 Glen要回國，當然要經(jīng)過機場例行的海關檢查。routine例行的；日常的，常規(guī)的。ordinary普通的；regular有規(guī)律的；common常見的。只有B符合。

6.根據(jù)上文的check可知是要把手表摘下來檢查的，因此用inspection。test表示試用；look看看；experiment實驗。

7.it指代上句的the tax，而one泛指可數(shù)名詞單數(shù)；them 及these都是復數(shù)形式。

8.既然是假貨，應該是不值錢的，故選C。而priceless表示無價的, 極貴重的；worthless表示不值錢的。

9.根據(jù)下文的his “smarts”可知Glen對自己的聰明感到自豪。

10.which引導非限制性定語從句，在這里指的是先行詞the watch。

11.on hearing his words“一聽到他的話”。“on + 名詞/動名詞”表示“一……就”，是固定用法。at后只跟名詞。

12.根據(jù)“海關人員當著他的面把勞力士表砸碎”以及后面“還沒明白怎么回事，就被帶到了一間辦公室”可知Glen很吃驚。

13.根據(jù)后文Glen因為這件事而上了黑名單可知，海關對他的檢查應該是嚴格的

14.Glen在國外讀書并獲得學位可知他應該有過很多次的出入境經(jīng)歷。

15.根據(jù)該官員仔細檢查及后面的according to law可知，該官員語氣應該是嚴厲的，故warn最佳。

16.如果他再次被發(fā)現(xiàn)使用假冒偽劣商品，將根據(jù)法律受到起訴。find out符合warn和according to law的語境。

17.既然攜帶假冒偽劣商品是違法的事情，那么according to law（根據(jù)法律），那一定是被起訴（charged）了。

18.make an impression on sb.給某人留下了印象，是一個固定短語。expression“表達，表示”。

19.由于撒謊付出了昂貴的代價，因此Glen體會了誠信的價值，從而導致他取得成功。

20.他將永遠記住這個成功的秘密。secret秘訣，秘密；lesson教訓；choice選擇；belief信仰；信念。