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He was proud of being chosen to ( ) in the game, and he promised that he would try as hard as possible.
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It was so noisy outside that the speaker could hardly ________.
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Pop means popular, and a pop singer is supposed to work very hard to become popular.He must either give the public what they already want, or he must find a new way of singing that will attract their
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He is working very hard for fear that he______behind.
A、should lag
B、could lag
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He’s working hard for fear that he to pass the exam.
A.fails
B.may fail
C.should fail
D.would fail
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Hobbs was an orphan. He worked in-a factory and every day he got a little money. Hard work changed him thin and weak. He wanted to borrow a lot of money to learn painting pictures, but he did not think he could pay off the debts.
One day the lawyer said to him, "One thousand dollars, and here is the money. "As Hobbs took the package of noted, he was very dumbfounded. He didn't know where the money came from and how to spend it. He said to himself, "I could go to find a hotel and live like a rich man for a few days; or I give up my work in the factory and do what I' d like to do: painting pictures. I could do that for a few weeks, but what would I do after that? I should have lost myplace of the factory and have no money to live on. If it were a little less money, I would buy a new coat, or a radio, or give a dinner to my friends. If it were more, I could give up the work and pay for painting pictures. But it's too much for one and too little for the other."
"Here is the reading of your uncle's will", said the lawyer, "telling what is to be clone with this money after his death. I must ask you to remember one point. Your uncle has said you must bring me a paper showing exactly what you did with his money, as soon as you have spent it." " Yes, I see. I'll do that. "said the young man.
He wanted to borrow money because he wanted to ______.
A.study abroad
B.work abroad
C.pay for the debts
D.learn to paint pictures
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He failed the exam, ______ proved that he hadn't been working hard enough.
A.that
B.which
C.what
D.of which
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听力原文: A friend of mine told me that when he was a young man, he went to work as a teacher in one of the states of India.
One day, he received an invitation to join at the ruler's palace. Very pleased, he went to tell his colleagues. They laughed and told him the meaning of the invitation. They had all been invited and each person who was invited had to bring with him a certain number of silver' and gold coins. The number of coins varied according to the person's position in the service of the government. My friend's income was not high, so he did not have to pay much.
Each person bowed before the ruler. His gold went onto one heap; his silver went onto another heap. And in this way he paid his income tax for the year.
This was the simple way of collecting income tax. The tax on property was also collected simply. The ruler gave a man the power to collect a tax from each owner of land or property in a certain area, if this man promised to pay the ruler a certain amount of money. Of course, the tax collector managed to collect more money than he paid to the ruler. The difference between the sum of money he collected and the sum of money he gave to the ruler was his profit.
What do we know about the speaker's friend?
A.He was once a friend of the ruler.
B.He was a tax collector.
C.He was a government official.
D.He was once a school teacher in India.
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He is quite worn out from years of hard work. He is not the man______he was twenty years ago.
A.which
B.that
C.who
D.whom
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He failed the exam,___proved that he hadn’t been working hard enough.
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______, the author felt that she was working for those who she served.
A.Since she worked in the bookstore after school
B.When she could help people make sense of the world
C.If she sensed she was working for the customers
D.Though she worked for certain companies and got paid by them
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听力原文: When people succeed, it is because of hard work, but luck has a lot to do with it, too. Success without some luck is almost impossible. The French emperor Napoleon said of one of his generals, "I know he's good. But is he lucky?" Napoleon knew that all the hard work and talent in the world can't make up for bad luck. However, hard work can invite good luck..
When it comes to success, luck can mean being in the right place to meet someone, or having the right skills to get a job done. It might mean turning down an offer and then having a better offer come along. Nothing can replace hard work, but working hard also means you're preparing yourself opportunity. Opportunity very often depends on luck.
How many of the great inventions and discoveries came about through a lucky mistake or a lucky chance? One of the biggest lucky mistakes in history is Columbus' so-called discovery of America. He enriched his sponsors and changed history, but he was really looking for India. However, Columbus' chance discovery wasn't pure luck. It was backed up by years of studying and calculating. He worked hard to prove his theory that the world was round.
People who work hard help make their own luck by being ready opportunity knocks. When it comes to success, hard work and luck are always hand in hand.
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A.Hard work is the most important thing for one's success.
B.Hard work may invite good luck.
C.Good luck plays an important role in one's success.
D.Success has nothing to do with luck.
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It is very hard to believe that when Lincoln was born, communications were a little faster than in the days of Julius Caesar.
A.It is
B.that when
C.a little
D.in the days
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He worked so hard that.eventually he fell ill.()
A.then
B.surely
C.finally
D.recently
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If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be motivated to work hard, with the result that incomes from taxation might actually ______.
A.shrink
B.delay
C.disperse
D.sink
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One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. (79) It is extremely hard some times to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about that," and it is even harder to say, "I was wrong, and you were right about that."
I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a grocery store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely the incident he was de scribing.
I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. On that particular clay, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where the incident tool place.
(80) There must have been a special sale on eggs that day be cause there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together; so I went to work.
The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was culprit(罪犯). He severely scolded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, apparently the manager did not.
How old was the author when he wrote this article?
A.About 8.
B.About 18.
C.About 23.
D.About 15.
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Which of the following provides the hard evidence that Mars was once a wet planet?
A.Schiaparelli
B.spacecraft
C.photographs shot from orbit
D.Martian rover Opportunity
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To refute the idea that wearing a uniform. can avoid envy, the author argues that it would hinder people from working hard for ______.
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It was_____he worked hard that he succeeded.
A.because
B.for
C.as
D.since
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Anna Douglas was 72 years old when she started writing her newspaper column. She had been the director of a school and a camp before she retired, but she needed to keep busy. She was even willing to work without pay. That was the reason she found a volunteer job with an agency. The agency that she chose to work for was a business that helped other businesses find jobs for old people. Every day she talked with other retired people like herself. By talking, she recognized two things. Old people had abilities that were not being used. Old people also had problems——mostly problems with communication.
Mrs. Douglas found a new purpose for herself. Through the years, from time to time she had written stories about people for national magazines. Now there was a new subject: old people like herself. She began to write a newspaper column called "Sixty Plus," which focused on getting old. She writes about the problems of old people, especially their problems with being misunderstood.
Anna Douglas uses her thinking ability to see the truth behind a problem. She understands the reasons why problems begin. She understands old people and young people, too. For example, one of her readers said that his grandchildren left the house as soon as he came to visit. Mrs. Douglas suggested some ways for him to increase understanding with his grand-children. She told him to listen to young people's music and to watch the most popular television shows.
"It's important to know something about your grandchildren's world," says Mrs. Douglas. "That means questioning and listening——and listening is not what oldsters do best," she continues, "Say good things to them and about them. Never criticize your grandchildren or any other youngsters, teenagers, or young adults. Never tell them that they are wrong. Don't give them your opinion. They have been taught that they should have respect for old people. The old should have respect for the young as well."
Anna Douglas understands the problems of old people ________.
A.because she likes their music
B.because she has grandchildren
C.because she watches their television programs
D.because she is old herself
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His love of money is the only () that drives him to work so hard.
A、plan
B、control
C、motive
D、honour
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We think that the profit margin of the offer might have been compressed to the lowest extent for us.However, considering the long-term trust collaboration between us and the hard work that your team has contributed into maintaining the quality of the product, we'll take that offer.()
:A.价格利润空间很窄,但是考虑到我们之间的长期合作关系,我方接受贵方报价。
B.但是考虑到我们之间的长期合作关系以及你们团队为保证产品质量所做的努力,我方接受贵方报价。
C.价格利润空间很窄,但是考虑到我们之间的长期合作关系以及你们团队为保证产品质量所做的努力,我方接受贵方报价。
D.价格利润空间很窄,但是考虑到你们团队为保证产品质量所做的努力,我方接受贵方报价。
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His handwriting was so tiny that it was hardly ().
A.legible
B.readable
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That old man was so decrepit that he could hardly walk()
A.weak
B.strong
C.healthy
D.decayed