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A [2015 •哈爾濱六中二模]

  Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy―they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2 ， 300 per cent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most start?ups don't, and that I wasn't sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy? I'd been a garage inventor. Id always wanted to be an inventor, and she wan?ted me to follow my passion.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and fi?nally said, "That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job. " That logic made some sense to me, and he con?vinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately (最后)，I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.

1. What inspired the author with the idea of building an on?line bookstore?

 

A. His dream of being an inventor.

B. The support of his wife.

C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.

D.  Millions of exciting titles.

2.  Which of the following is closest in meaning to the under?lined sentence in Paragraph 3?

 

A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.

B.He would be very excited if he tried it out.

 C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn't try.

D.  The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.

 

3. We can know from the passage that .

 

A.the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author

B.the author wanted someone else to try the idea

C.the author might not regret if he failed the idea

D. the author might go back to his boss if he failed

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the pas?sage?

 A. Cleverness and kindness

B.The starting of Amazon

C. Following my passion

D.  We are what we choose

Answer 1

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A [文章大窻]本文是一篇記敘文，講述了亞馬遜網(wǎng)站創(chuàng)始人的故事。在作者30歲的時(shí)候，他驚嘆于互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的迅速發(fā)展，于是萌發(fā)了建立網(wǎng)上書店的想法。在得到妻子的支持以后，他辭去了待遇很好的工作，雖然老板曾試圖留住他，但他最終決定把自己的想法付諸實(shí)踐。

1.C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段第H句'Td never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me.，，可知，是

互聯(lián)網(wǎng)使用者的迅猛增加讓作者想到這個(gè)主意。故選c項(xiàng)。

2.A 句意理解題。根據(jù)畫線句子前的"…I decided I had to give h a shot. I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing."可知，老板想說服作者留下來，作者有些動(dòng)搖，但經(jīng)過思考之后，作者決定辭職創(chuàng)建網(wǎng)站。作者不害怕嘗試和失敗，但會(huì)因?yàn)橄敕�沒有付諸實(shí)踐

而煩惱。故選A項(xiàng)。

3. C推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段的"…I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing."可知，作者認(rèn)為自己將不會(huì)為嘗試和失敗感到后悔。故選C項(xiàng)。

4.D 主旨大意題。根據(jù)最后一段"After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices."可知，作者把自己的熱情投人到自己想做的事情中，并且獲得了成功，因此說是我們的選擇成就了我們。故選D項(xiàng)。B [文章大意]本文主要介紹了一個(gè)書展比賽的相關(guān)內(nèi)容。