完型填空（共20 小題；每小題1．5分；滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，然后從下列各題所給的A、 B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things
36 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe
37 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been
38 for years—often from
39 childhood. These stories may have no
40 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical (操作機(jī)械的) skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations
41 my development? I was never
42 to work on cars or be around
43 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later,
44 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I
45 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the
46 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life
47 and told him about my
48 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “
49 is it that you can solve
50 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t
51 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to
52 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been
53 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true.
54 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost
55 we choose.
| 小題1: | | A．a(chǎn)way | B．down | C．up | D．off |
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| 小題2: | | A．yourself | B．myself | C．them | D．others |
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| 小題3: | | A．said | B．repeated | C．spread | D．spoken |
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| 小題4: | | A．a(chǎn)s long as | B．a(chǎn)s much as | C．a(chǎn)s well as | D．a(chǎn)s far back as |
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| 小題5: | | A．cause | B．plot | C．basis | D．meaning |
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| 小題6: | | A．a(chǎn)ffect | B．improve | C．lead | D．change |
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| 小題7: | | A．hoped | B．demanded | C．encouraged | D．a(chǎn)greed |
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| 小題8: | | A．means | B．hammers | C．facilities | D．tools |
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| 小題9: | | A．therefore | B．however | C．instead | D．somehow |
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| 小題10: | | A．took | B．turned | C．settled | D．got |
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| 小題11: | | A．negative | B．a(chǎn)ctive | C．passive | D．subjective |
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| 小題12: | | A．roads | B．trips | C．experiences | D．paths |
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| 小題13: | | A．unexpected | B．a(chǎn)verage | C．excellent | D．poor |
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| 小題15: | | A．common | B．a(chǎn)dvanced | C．complex | D．primary |
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| 小題16: | | A．suffer | B．separate | C．a(chǎn)rise | D．come |
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| 小題17: | | A．a(chǎn)dopt | B．suspect | C．believe | D．receive |
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| 小題18: | | A．weakening | B．a(chǎn)ccepting | C．a(chǎn)bandoning | D．strengthening |
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| 小題19: | | A．As a result | B．On the contrary | | C．In addition | D．At the same time |
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| 小題20: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．a(chǎn)nything | D．a(chǎn)ll |
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ief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan. 