職稱英語理工AB概括大意完成句子試題(3)
發布時間：2013-11-04 共1頁
Even Intelligent People Can Fail
l The striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed．Turn on a light, take a photograph, watch TV,search the Web，jet across the Pacific Ocean，talk on a cellphone(手機)．The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze(錯綜復雜)of wrong turns．
2 We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary，of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating a thin line to white―hot heat for l4 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US．He did that on October 22．1879．and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight(點亮著的)in all airless space for 45 hours．Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan, even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he turned it on, on September 4,1882．
3 “Many of life’failures,”the supreme innovator said，“are people who did not realize howclose they were to success when they gave up．’’Before that magical moment in October 1879，Edison had worked out no fewer than 3，000 theories about electric light，but in only two cases did his experiments work．
4 NO one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it．Mark Gumz，the head of the camera maker Olympus America Inc．attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure．His popular phrase is：“You only fail when you quit．”
5 Over two centuries．the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence．That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep up what they were doing．Walt Disney．the founder of Disneyland，was so broke after a succession of financial failures that hewas left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the US$1．50 to get his shoes from the repair shop．Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car．
6 Failure is harder to bear in today’s open．accelerated world．Hardly any innovation works the first time．But an impatient society and the media want instant success．When American music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time，a critic said nastily that the only difference between Geffen Records(Geffen’s company)and the Titanic(the ship that went down) was that the Titanic had better music．Actually，it wasn’t．After four years of losses，Geffen had so many hits(成功的作品)he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic a11 to himself．
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A Importance of Learning from Failure
B Quality Shared by Most Innovators
C Edison’s Innovation
D Edison’s Comment on Failure
E Contributions Made by Innovators
F Miseries Endured by Innovators
5 People often didn’t realize how close they were to success when ___.
6 Before Henry Ford eventually developed the Model T car，___.
7 Walt Disney was once so poor that ____.
8 The media demand that ___.
A.he developed 3,000 theories
B.he couldn’t afford to buy a pair of shoes
C.he found himself an unsuccessful man
D.they quitted
E.an innovation should work immediately
F.failure is the mother of success.
參考答案：
1. C。分析: 該段中出現了特征詞Thomas Edison, 而且該段內容主要圍繞Thomas Edison在進行講述(段落中的代詞he也是指代Thomas Edison), 因此判斷Thomas Edison是該段主題詞, 因此答案只能出自C和D. 比較這兩個選項, 不難發現D中提到的Failure在段落中沒有呼應的詞語或內容, 而且段落一開始提到的就是“Thomas Edison成功地把一根細線加熱到白熱狀態， 而且這個狀態持續了14個小時（憑借背景知識我們知道這是愛迪生燈絲的發明）， 因此可以肯定地判斷C（愛迪生的新發明）是答案。
2． D。分析:該段只有兩句話組成, 而每句話中的核心詞(主語)都是Edison, 因此Edison也是這段的主題詞, 這樣看來D可能是答案, 而且D中提到的“失敗”和“評論”在該段中也出現了， 因此判斷D是答案。
3. A。分析: 段落中failure頻繁出現, 所以failure應該是該段的主題詞, 因此判斷A可能是答案, 而且段首句(觀點句)說“沒有人喜歡失敗， 但是聰明的改革家會從失敗中學到教訓。”， 顯然該句內容也與A的內容一致。
4. B. 分析: 段首句中出現了B中的核心詞Quality, 而且短首句(觀點句)說“在過去兩個世紀里， 發明家之間最共同的特征是他們一直是持之以恒”。顯然這句話的內容與B的內容一致， 因此判斷B是答案。
5. D. 分析: 解題思路1:借助空格所在句子的句意判斷D最合適. 整個句子的大意是“人們通常在放棄的時候并沒有認識到他們距離成功已經不遠了。”； 思路2：借助文章中相關語句：利用句子中的修飾詞how close作為答案線索， 這樣找到答案相關句： “Many of life’failures,”the supreme最優秀的innovator said，“are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up． 因此判斷D是答案。
6． C。分析： 利用句子中出現的特征詞Henry Ford和Model T car作為答案線索， 這樣找到答案相關句： Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car． 該句說“作為汽車行業領頭人的汽車制造商Henry Ford，在其研制出T型汽車之前曾被一家公司拒絕了， 然后又被另一家公司趕了出去。”， 借助這個句子內容判斷C（他認為自己是一個不成功的人）是答案。
7．B. 分析：該題可以直接借助句意判斷： 空格前句說“Walt Disney曾經是如此的貧窮， 以至于…”, 比較剩下的被選項判斷B(他買不起一雙鞋)是最適合的答案.
8. E。 分析: 借助空格前面的內容“媒體要求….”， 判斷E（一項發明應該立刻起作用）最合適。A中的代詞he在這個句子中沒有指代的內容；F（失敗是成功之母）顯然不是媒體要求的內容， 所以答案只能是E。
