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(63)The fortunate people in the world-the only really fortunate people in the world, in my mind,—are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often represented to be; (64)and authors are perhaps one of the most important elements in its composition. They enjoy in this respect at least a real harmony of life. (65)To my mind, to be able to make your work your pleasure is the one class distinction in the world worth striving for; and I do not wonder that others are inclined to envy those happy human beings who find their livelihood in the gay effusions of their fancy, to whom every hour of labour is an hour of enjoyment to whom repose-however necessary-is a tiresome interlude, and even holiday is almost deprivation. (66)Whether a man writes well or ill, has much to say or little, if he cares about writing at all, he will appreciate the pleasures of composition. (67) To sit at one's table on sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen-that is true happiness. (From The Joys of Writing) 请翻译划线句子

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. (31) ________, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. (32) ________, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. (33) ________, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" (34) ________, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door, Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, (35) ________: could choose to live, or could choose to die. I chose to live." "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. (36) ________.But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, (37) ________. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man. I knew I needed to take action." "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me, said Jerry. "(38) ________. 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. (39) ________, not dead.’” Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that(40) ________. Attitude, after all, is everything. (From Attitude Is Everything) A. When I asked him how he was B. Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate C. You choose how you react to situations D. While trying to open the safe E. I got really scared F. She asked if was allergic to anything G. every day we have the choice to live fully H. Operate on me as if I am alive I. declined to see his wounds J. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care K. I remembered that I had two choices L. They kept telling me I was going to be fine 请选择恰当选项填空

Match problem touch ideal reason pay Compare voice undergo think addition alike The first girl arrived a week later. Milton's face turned red when he saw her. He spoke as though it were hard to do so. They were together a great deal and he(51) ________no attention to me. One time he said, "Let me take you to dinner." The next day he said to me, "It was no good, somehow. There was something missing. She is a beautiful woman, but I did not feel any (52) ________of true love. Try the next one.” It was the same with all eight. They were much(53) ________.They smiled a great deal and had pleasant(54) ________,but Milton always found it wasn't right. He said, "I can't understand it, Joe. You and I have picked out the eight women who, in all the world, look the best to me. They are(55) ________.Why don't they please me?" I said, "Do you please them?" His eyebrows moved and he pushed one fist hard against his hand. "That's it, Joe. It's a two-way street. If am not their ideal, they can't' act in such way as to be my ideal. must be their true love, too, but how do do that ? He seemed to be(56) ________all that day. The next morning he came to me and said, "I'm going to leave it to you, Joe. All up to you. You have my data bank, and I am going to tell you everything I know about myself. You fill up my data bank in every possible detail but keep all (57) ________to vourself." "What will do with the data bank, then, Milton?" "Then you will(58) ________it to the 235 women. No, 227. Leave out the eight you've seen. Arrange to have each(59) ________a psychiatric examination. Fill up their data banks and(60) ________them with mine. Find correlations. (From True Love) 请选择恰当单词填空

Passage 1 Questions to 5 are based on the following passage. Many studies suggest. that our personalities remain fairly stable, even over the course of decades. Yet small but long-running study finds that traits related to dependability differ greatly between adolescence and late life The findings raise new questions and highlight the challenges in trying to track a person's defining characteristics over many years. In the new research, published in December 2016 in Psychology and Aging, researchers in the U.K. reached out to a group of 635 77-year-olds from Scotland who had taken part in a study when they were 14. Back then, their teachers had rated them on six personality characteristics related to dependability:sef- confidence, perseverance(坚定), mood stability, conscientiousness(认真), originality and desire to be better than others.Some 60 years later a total of 174 participants from the original study rated themselves on the same six traits and had a close friend or relative rate them as well. Lead author lan Deary, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, expected, based on earlier findings, that dependability scores might remain stable over time. In fact, he and his colleagues found no relation between ratings for dependability-related traits over the 63-year span studied. (Deary emphasizes that his findings apply only to these six traits-not overall personality.) One of the study's strengths is that it covers such a long period, but this characteristic also makes the research challenging. Nate Hudson, a social psychologist at Michigan State University who was not involved in the study, points out that the lack of personality stability could be the result of having different people rate the participants. Ideally, the same person would rate a subject's personality at both time points when assessments were made. In decades-spanning studies, many subjects go missing, die or choose not to participate in follow-up assessments. Deary and his colleagues had only 174 of the original participants, a number that makes it tough to find subtle but real, correlations in sets of data. "It is difficult to know from their study alone whether there is truly zero stability in personality from age 14 to 77," Hudson says. “Deary's work moves the field forward-but more research is needed to get full picture of how personality evolves throughout a lifetime.”What do many studies suggest about a person's personality?

Passage 1 Questions to 5 are based on the following passage. Many studies suggest. that our personalities remain fairly stable, even over the course of decades. Yet small but long-running study finds that traits related to dependability differ greatly between adolescence and late life The findings raise new questions and highlight the challenges in trying to track a person's defining characteristics over many years. In the new research, published in December 2016 in Psychology and Aging, researchers in the U.K. reached out to a group of 635 77-year-olds from Scotland who had taken part in a study when they were 14. Back then, their teachers had rated them on six personality characteristics related to dependability:sef- confidence, perseverance(坚定), mood stability, conscientiousness(认真), originality and desire to be better than others.Some 60 years later a total of 174 participants from the original study rated themselves on the same six traits and had a close friend or relative rate them as well. Lead author lan Deary, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, expected, based on earlier findings, that dependability scores might remain stable over time. In fact, he and his colleagues found no relation between ratings for dependability-related traits over the 63-year span studied. (Deary emphasizes that his findings apply only to these six traits-not overall personality.) One of the study's strengths is that it covers such a long period, but this characteristic also makes the research challenging. Nate Hudson, a social psychologist at Michigan State University who was not involved in the study, points out that the lack of personality stability could be the result of having different people rate the participants. Ideally, the same person would rate a subject's personality at both time points when assessments were made. In decades-spanning studies, many subjects go missing, die or choose not to participate in follow-up assessments. Deary and his colleagues had only 174 of the original participants, a number that makes it tough to find subtle but real, correlations in sets of data. "It is difficult to know from their study alone whether there is truly zero stability in personality from age 14 to 77," Hudson says. “Deary's work moves the field forward-but more research is needed to get full picture of how personality evolves throughout a lifetime.”Who rated the participants when they were 14 years old?

Passage 1 Questions to 5 are based on the following passage. Many studies suggest. that our personalities remain fairly stable, even over the course of decades. Yet small but long-running study finds that traits related to dependability differ greatly between adolescence and late life The findings raise new questions and highlight the challenges in trying to track a person's defining characteristics over many years. In the new research, published in December 2016 in Psychology and Aging, researchers in the U.K. reached out to a group of 635 77-year-olds from Scotland who had taken part in a study when they were 14. Back then, their teachers had rated them on six personality characteristics related to dependability:sef- confidence, perseverance(坚定), mood stability, conscientiousness(认真), originality and desire to be better than others.Some 60 years later a total of 174 participants from the original study rated themselves on the same six traits and had a close friend or relative rate them as well. Lead author lan Deary, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, expected, based on earlier findings, that dependability scores might remain stable over time. In fact, he and his colleagues found no relation between ratings for dependability-related traits over the 63-year span studied. (Deary emphasizes that his findings apply only to these six traits-not overall personality.) One of the study's strengths is that it covers such a long period, but this characteristic also makes the research challenging. Nate Hudson, a social psychologist at Michigan State University who was not involved in the study, points out that the lack of personality stability could be the result of having different people rate the participants. Ideally, the same person would rate a subject's personality at both time points when assessments were made. In decades-spanning studies, many subjects go missing, die or choose not to participate in follow-up assessments. Deary and his colleagues had only 174 of the original participants, a number that makes it tough to find subtle but real, correlations in sets of data. "It is difficult to know from their study alone whether there is truly zero stability in personality from age 14 to 77," Hudson says. “Deary's work moves the field forward-but more research is needed to get full picture of how personality evolves throughout a lifetime.”Hudson thinks that Deary's research could have been bettered if, at different time points, it had_____.

Passage 1 Questions to 5 are based on the following passage. Many studies suggest. that our personalities remain fairly stable, even over the course of decades. Yet small but long-running study finds that traits related to dependability differ greatly between adolescence and late life The findings raise new questions and highlight the challenges in trying to track a person's defining characteristics over many years. In the new research, published in December 2016 in Psychology and Aging, researchers in the U.K. reached out to a group of 635 77-year-olds from Scotland who had taken part in a study when they were 14. Back then, their teachers had rated them on six personality characteristics related to dependability:sef- confidence, perseverance(坚定), mood stability, conscientiousness(认真), originality and desire to be better than others.Some 60 years later a total of 174 participants from the original study rated themselves on the same six traits and had a close friend or relative rate them as well. Lead author lan Deary, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, expected, based on earlier findings, that dependability scores might remain stable over time. In fact, he and his colleagues found no relation between ratings for dependability-related traits over the 63-year span studied. (Deary emphasizes that his findings apply only to these six traits-not overall personality.) One of the study's strengths is that it covers such a long period, but this characteristic also makes the research challenging. Nate Hudson, a social psychologist at Michigan State University who was not involved in the study, points out that the lack of personality stability could be the result of having different people rate the participants. Ideally, the same person would rate a subject's personality at both time points when assessments were made. In decades-spanning studies, many subjects go missing, die or choose not to participate in follow-up assessments. Deary and his colleagues had only 174 of the original participants, a number that makes it tough to find subtle but real, correlations in sets of data. "It is difficult to know from their study alone whether there is truly zero stability in personality from age 14 to 77," Hudson says. “Deary's work moves the field forward-but more research is needed to get full picture of how personality evolves throughout a lifetime.”What is Hudson's overall view on the findings of Deary's research?

Passage 2 Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage. During World War II, many American women joined the armed forces and served side by side with the men. More than 200,000 women volunteered to serve in the armed forces. The women did not go into battle with guns But they did perform countless useful-and often dangerous-tasks, which freed the men for the fighting. And thousands of nurses risked-and sometimes lost-their lives treating the wounded while the enemy was attacking. One group of women performed very special job. That was because they had a special skill. They were pilots. The United States had not yet entered the war in 1940. But Americans were selling airplanes to the British. Canada was supplying even more. The planes were vital to Britain's survival. They had to be gotten overseas as quickly as possible. What was the fastest way? By air, of course. Trained American and Canadian pilots were already flying for Britain's Royal Air Force. Every man who could fly a plane was already fighting in Europe. Someone had to fly the new planes across the ocean. Who could do it? The women! Jacqueline Cochran was one of America's best-known pilots when the war began. She described how the women pilots got involved in the war and what they did: “Late in 1940 General Arnold said they needed pilots desperately for ferrying airplanes from Canada to England, and he asked me if I could be of any help. I said I would be happy to volunteer, and my services were immediately accepted. It was a difficult task with a high death rate. I got shot at over the North Atlantic and others did too. We usually got to England with only about two and half hours of fuel to spare,and that is hazardous(危险的)”. Often, after a long trip—and just a few hours'sleep—the women were flown back to Canada to pick up more planes. When the United States entered the war the women pilots were formed into a group called WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). Miss Cochran became their commanding officer. The women continued to serve until 1944. More than 1,000 women kept American and British pilots supplied with new planes during the war. They flew every type of plane that was built. And they won the admiration of thousands of combat pilots.What special job did the group of American women do in World War Ⅱ?

Passage 2 Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage. During World War II, many American women joined the armed forces and served side by side with the men. More than 200,000 women volunteered to serve in the armed forces. The women did not go into battle with guns But they did perform countless useful-and often dangerous-tasks, which freed the men for the fighting. And thousands of nurses risked-and sometimes lost-their lives treating the wounded while the enemy was attacking. One group of women performed very special job. That was because they had a special skill. They were pilots. The United States had not yet entered the war in 1940. But Americans were selling airplanes to the British. Canada was supplying even more. The planes were vital to Britain's survival. They had to be gotten overseas as quickly as possible. What was the fastest way? By air, of course. Trained American and Canadian pilots were already flying for Britain's Royal Air Force. Every man who could fly a plane was already fighting in Europe. Someone had to fly the new planes across the ocean. Who could do it? The women! Jacqueline Cochran was one of America's best-known pilots when the war began. She described how the women pilots got involved in the war and what they did: “Late in 1940 General Arnold said they needed pilots desperately for ferrying airplanes from Canada to England, and he asked me if I could be of any help. I said I would be happy to volunteer, and my services were immediately accepted. It was a difficult task with a high death rate. I got shot at over the North Atlantic and others did too. We usually got to England with only about two and half hours of fuel to spare,and that is hazardous(危险的)”. Often, after a long trip—and just a few hours'sleep—the women were flown back to Canada to pick up more planes. When the United States entered the war the women pilots were formed into a group called WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). Miss Cochran became their commanding officer. The women continued to serve until 1944. More than 1,000 women kept American and British pilots supplied with new planes during the war. They flew every type of plane that was built. And they won the admiration of thousands of combat pilots.What did the United States do in 1940 according to the passage?