内容正文:
2021英语二考冲刺—六选四专题名校汇编
学习目标:专题训练各名校六选四题型;掌握翻译题型常考点和难点以及解题技巧。
课堂测试:
1. 【2020-2021学年上海市闵行区七宝中学高三英语上学期10月月考试卷】
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Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
A. We stop challenging custom.
B. That’s good, because it’s always the people with no time who get things done.
C. Either curiosity or discontent makes human being move forward.
D. These deep human urges count for much more than ambition.
AB. We will probably have to force ourselves to waken our curiosity and discontent and
keep them awake.
AC. Discontent made the great names unsatisfied.
After years of observing human nature, I have decided that two qualities make the difference between men of great achievement and men of average performance: curiosity and discontent. I have never known an outstanding man who lacked either. And I have never known an average man who had both. The two belong together.
(67) Galileo was not merely ambitious when he dropped objects of varying weights from the Leaning Tower at Pisa and timed their fall to the ground. Like Galileo, all the great names in history were curious and asked in discontent, “ Why? Why? Why? ”
Fortunately, curiosity and discontent don’t have to be learned. We are born with them and need only recapture them. “ The great man,” said Mencius(孟子), “is he who does not lose his child’s heart. “Yet most of us do lose it. We stop asking questions. (68) We just follow the crowd. And the crowd desires only the calm and restful average. It encourages us to occupy our own little corner, to avoid foolish leaps into the dark, to be satisfied.
Most of us meet new people, and new ideas, with hesitation. But once having met and liked them, we think how terrible it would have been, had we missed the chance. (69)
How should you start? Modestly, so as not to become discouraged. I th