Section B (18分)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.
It is funny when you’d ask a kid today what he / she’d like to be when they grow up. 36 they’d say, “I want to be like my daddy or like my mummy.” You ask the same question to 37
and you’d hear them saying they want to be like R. Kelly, Dora or Obama. These people are great in their own rights(凭他们自身的努力), but that’s not enough reason to spend your time living out a life just trying to be an image of 38 person. This same question is not just limited to kids and teens; ask adults and they’d also tell you they want to be like Bill Gates or Ellen Sirleaf Johnson.
We live in a world in which people are from different backgrounds. Some are born with silver spoons and others with no spoon at all. We live in a world of 39 and solutions, obstacles and stepping-stones, depending on where you are looking.
Most of us spend our time and energy 40 shoes to fit into, leaving ours behind, trying to live life and 41 the way our role models do. It’s good but that’s not the chief factor that we’d be like them, because we’d be surprised that we’ll fall short of our expectations if we spend much energy 42 the wind. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, so it’s 43
that we all have the 1% in our genetic make-up but we need to work hard.
Now, I’m not trying to say it’s 44 to want to be like somebody else; all I’m trying to say is that you were born here for a reason — You were given an empty book to write your life in. I wouldn’t want your book to be 45 with how so-so and so is but rather how “I am”. For as you go around trying out people’s 46 , who’s going to try yours? Even if you don't become successful in life, 47 yourself with the thought that at least your shoes are worth trying out.
36. A. Fortunately B. Generally C. Surprisingly D. Curiously
37. A. teenagers B. adults C. girls D. elders
38. A. another B. any C. each D. other
39. A. opportunities B. successes C. challenges D.achievements
40. A. holding up B. looking for C. taking up D. caring for
41. A. stay B. insist C. continue D. act
42. A. removing B. chasing C. avoiding D. changing
43. A. strange B. funny C. likely D. clear
44. A. bad B. hard C. natural D. good
45. A. provided B. filled C. painted D. charged
46. A. clothes B. trousers C. shoes D. jackets
47. A. forgive B. comfort C. remind D. consider
