Question

If you're going to do something, my dad used to say, do it right.

Mostly he said that after my half?hearted (不盡力的) ____ to weed the vegetable garden. For some reason, he knew that there were white roots still ____ deep in the ground without looking around the garden. So I would be in the ____ again the next day with a spade dig deep and ____ the roots of our garden. As I tried to focus my attention to ____， Dad's words kept echoing in my mind: “Do it right.”

I saw a perfect example of what Dad was talking about last week when one of the teams in the company was ____. All of us were sad to see them go. They were good friends and ____， and we worried about them. And ____， at such times you always wonder: am I next?

But as we watched them during the week they were given to ____， many of us noticed that they weren't handling this in quite the way we expected them to. ____ none of them found another job, there was also no bitterness or ____ in their departure. I didn't hear a negative word. I didn't see any ____ or unhappy faces—at least, not from them. Instead, I saw grace.

“It's ____，” one of my colleagues whispered. “I went over there to offer comfort and support to them, and they ____ comforting me.”

Ancient Greeks believed that swans save their sweetest song for the moments to their ____. I don't know if my departing friends ____ their ending as a “swan song” or not, but the calm, quiet dignity with which they embraced their cruel reality touched and ____ us.

Lee, a man who has seen and ____ lots of lay?offs during almost 40 up?and?down, on?again?off?again years with the company, ____ nicely for all of us.

“Now, that's doing it right，” he said.

Somewhere, I just know Dad was smiling his ____.

1.A.attempts B．judgements

C．expectations D．requests

2.A.planted B．buried

C．grown D．stuck

3.A.house B．school

C．garden D．company

4.A.look forward to B．come up with

C．fit in with D．get down to

5.A.watching B．thinking

C．digging D．working

6.A.turned down B．laid off

C．cut down D．given up

7.A.competitors B．colleagues

C．directors D．consultants

8.A.frankly B．naturally

C．equally D．generally

9.A.hurry up B．turn up

C．pack up D．come up

10.A.Since B．When

C．Unless D．While

11.A.sadness B．puzzle

C．anger D．delight

12.A.tears B．smiles

C．dangers D．fears

13.A.upsetting B．exciting

C．disappointing D．amazing

14.A.objected to B．insisted on

C．ended up D．kept on

15.A.birth B．death

C．arrival D．party

16.A.view B．recognize

C．choose D．describe

17.A.discouraged B．warned

C．inspired D．amused

18.A.celebrated B．witnessed

C．resisted D．survived

19.A.made up B．summed up

C．picked up D．speeded up

20.A.disagreement B．indifference

C．admiration D．approval

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.D

5.C

6.B

7.B

8.A

9.C

10.D

11.A

12.A

13.D

14.C

15.B

16.A

17.C

18.D

19.B

20.D

【解析】文章大意：本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者通過小時候清除菜園雜草的經歷以及公司里幾個被解雇的同事的表現，向我們詮釋了“Do it right”的內涵。

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2.2】答案：B　根據上下文可知，此處表示“父親知道仍然有一些白色的根深埋在土里”，故buried符合語境。

3.3】C 因此第二天，我總是又在花園里，拿著鐵鍬，認真除去我們菜園里的雜草。

4.4】D 根據上題解析。Get down to表示開始認真做某事，符合語境；A盼望；B想起；A期待。根據句義說明D正確。

5.5】C 由上句中的with a spade dig deep可知，此處表示在我專心挖草根的后死后，父親的話一直在我的腦海里回響。故C正確。

6.6】B 根據文章中all of us were sad to see them go及lots of lay-offs可知，此處表示我們公司的一個團隊被解雇了。Lay off解雇，符合上下文語境。

7.7】答案：B　由上下文可知，此處表示“他們是我們的好朋友和好同事”。

8.8】A并且，老實說，在那樣的時候，你會想知道：我是否是下一個呢？因為同事被解雇，所以在那個時候，每個人都會擔心自己是否會被解雇了。故frankly老實說，符合上下文語境。

9.9】C上文同事說到自己被解雇了，所以此處是給他們一周的時間收拾東西，故pack up收拾行李。符合語境。

10.0】答案：D　根據上下文可知，空處所在句和后一句之間是讓步關系，因此選while，表示“盡管”。盡管沒有一個人找到其他的工作，但是他們也沒有痛苦或難過。

11.1】答案：A　根據語境可知，此處應該選一個與bitterness意思相近的詞語，因此選sadness。

12.2】答案：A　“我”沒有從他們臉上看見眼淚和難過的神色。

13.3】D 根據上文中的內容和后一句同事的話，可知此處表示我的一個同事認為被解雇的同事的表現是令人驚奇的。

14.4】C 此處表示我的一個同事是去給他們安慰和支持的，結果最后他們反而來安慰我的那個同事。End up with意為：以…為結果，以…告終；符合語境。

15.5】B 根據上下文語境可知，此處把同事們離職前的淡定和天鵝臨死時的歌唱做一個對比。故選擇death。

16.6】A 我不知道我要離開的時候朋友們是否把他們的離開視為一首天鵝之歌。View...as...把...視為...；以...看待。符合語境。

17.7】C 他們用來擁抱殘酷事實的這種淡定和大度，感動和激勵著我們。Inspire激勵，符合語境。

18.8】D 根據上下文可知，此處應該使用survived表示艱難度過，幸存；即：Lee見到過也經歷過很多次解雇。

19.9】答案：B　Lee為我們做了很好的總結。sum up意為“總結”，符合上下文語境。

20.20】D由上文可知，這位老同事說的話和我父親說的話是一樣的，因此此處表示我知道父親一定在某處微笑著表示贊同。故D正確。