Question

I can remember a period in my life when I was unemployed and money was running out. I needed a job very    36  .  A friend of mine approached me one day with an    37   . “I’m going to have to let this job go and I was wondering if you would like to take it   38  ?” “That would be great,” I replied.
I went to the manager and he said I could start on Monday morning.
When I went inside I was  39    that I would buff (擦) the floors. My friend was there to   40   me how to operate the buffer.  
 “It’s really   41  ,” he said, running the machine very   42  . He handed it over to me and said, “Here, you have a try.” I   43    the handlers(把手). To my surprise, the buffer whipped around in a big circle, running over my friend’s brand new pair of boots, and sending him   44   up on a check-out counter.
 For several times, I tried to run it again and   45  . I really had to fight that thing to make it go. “What am I going to do?” I thought to myself. “I finally found a job and I can’t do it. Am I going to have to tell them I have to   46  ?” 
 After several   47  days of buffing, I finally made up my mind that I was going to do this. For about a week, I   48   with the buffer, putting all my weight and   49  into it. Eventually, I learned the trick and was not to struggle with it at all, just   50   with the flow of it, and by the second week, I was showing off and running it with one hand.
 A few months later, I   51   back and wondered what would have happened   52   I had given up that first week. I certainly would not have had the newly-founded confidence or paycheck.   53    after that experience, I started a new job that   54   the use of a buffer.
   Obstacles (障礙) don’t have to stop you. If you run into a   55  , don’t turn around or give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or walk around it.
(    ) 36. A. badly    B. well   C. quickly    D. extremely
(    )37. A.apology   B. invitation  C. offer    D. opinion
(    ) 38. A. over      B. off       C. out       D. on
(   )39.A.warned   B.informed    C.forced    D. cheated
(    ) 40. A. watch    B. train   C. explain   D. show
(    )41.A.hard   B.easy   C.interesting   D. meaningful
(    )42. A. rapidly   B. hardly   C. slowly    D. smoothly
(    )43.A.grabbed  B.equipped  C. wiped    D. sought
(    )44. A. rising    B. looking  C. turning   D. jumping
(    )45.A.remained B.insisted  C.failed   D.succeeded
(    ) 46. A. stop    B. repeat   C. continue   D. speed
(    ) 47. A. simple   B. harmful  C. rough    D. endless
(    ) 48. A. met    B. struggled  C. lived    D. combined
(    ) 49. A. body    B. spirit    C. soul    D. strength
(    ) 50. A. do       B. go      C. start    D. match
(    ) 51. A. went    B. came   C. thought   D. recalled
(    ) 52. A. when    B. unless    C. as     D. if
(    )53.A.Even   B. Seldom  C. Sometime   D. Sometimes
(    )54.A.required  B. introduced  C.reducedD. rejected
(    ) 55. A. car    B. wall          C. river    D. problem 

Answer 1

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