Question

     Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it  36  . Albert Einstein was  37  to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don't have the work relative to  38  . I should give up on it and settle for something else.”  39  , he wrote the two most famous papers while  40  as a patent（專利）office worker. After the   41  , there was not any major  42  in the world that would not have wanted him to work for them.

     If you want to work as an artist and are  43  as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who  44  one day to become an artist. That puts the  45  you love somewhere Off in the distant future. Rather, think yourself as  46  , supporting yourself by waiting tables and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is  47  to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That  48  plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft (手藝)  in the  49  hours.

     While seeking the work you love,   50  helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be  51  the ideas Of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened  52  the possibilities, you can make a final  53  and select the work you love as your own.

     Doing the work you love  54  that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the  55 . It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.

36.A.full-fime	B. hard	C. easily	D. part-time
37.A.unable	B. able	C. unwilling	D. anxious
38.A.science	B. maths	C. physics	D. money
39.A.So	B. Instead	C. Therefore	D. And
40.A.employed	B. regarded	C. worked	D. recognized
41.A. inventions	B. discoveries	C. successes	D. papers
42.A. city	B. factory	C. university	D. company
43.A.known	B. making a living	C. leading a life	D. chosen
44.A.thinks	B. imagines	C. hopes	D. decides
45.A.man	B. woman	C. person	D. work
46.A. an artist	B. a waiter	C. a waitress	D. a painter
47.A.impossible	B. possible	C. important	D. lucky
48.A.sends	B. spares	C. leaves	D. takes
49.A.on	B. office	C. business	D. off
50.A.it	B. which	C. that	D. this
51.A. interested in	B. devoted to	C. limited to	D. troubled by
52.A.no	B. all	C. few	D. both
53.A.decision	B. plan	C. conclusion	D. judge
54.A.suggests	B. requires	C. insists	D. encourages
55.A.necessary	B. practical	C. careful	D. honest

Answer 1

36.D。聯(lián)系全句，可知作者在此談?wù)摫M早做自己喜歡做的工作的必要性。A項(xiàng)有一定干擾性，從第二段作者所舉的例子(一個(gè)想成為藝術(shù)家的人)我們可以看出，作者認(rèn)為無(wú)論是兼職，還是不拿報(bào)酬做自己喜歡的工作都是有必要的。

37.A。從下文的“Well，I just don’t have the work relative to  38   (physics)．I should give up on it ...”得知，Albert Einstein起初沒(méi)有得到做物理教授的工作。

38.C。relative to在這里是“與……有關(guān)”的意思。Einstein沒(méi)能找到做物理教授的工作，他覺(jué)得自己不適合物理方面的工作。

39.B。instead在這里相當(dāng)于instead of getting a job as a physics professor。

40.A。C項(xiàng)有一定干擾性，while employed等于while he was employed。在時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)從句或條件狀語(yǔ)從句中，從句的主語(yǔ)如果與主句主語(yǔ)一致，且謂語(yǔ)含有動(dòng)詞be，可以省略主語(yǔ)和動(dòng)詞be。C項(xiàng)顯然不符合這一規(guī)則。

41.A。the inventions指Einstein的兩項(xiàng)理論的發(fā)明。

42.C。從前文我們得知，Einstein起初想做物理教授，沒(méi)有哪個(gè)大學(xué)想要他。現(xiàn)在他出名了，沒(méi)有哪所重點(diǎn)大學(xué)不想要他。

43.B。從后文“…，supporting(養(yǎng)活) yourself by waiting tables"可知，以藝術(shù)為自己的工作時(shí)，做飯店服務(wù)員只是為了掙錢養(yǎng)活自己。

44.C。who在這里代表a waiter,本句的意思是“不要把自己看成一個(gè)有一天能成為藝術(shù)家的飯店服務(wù)員。”顯然作者認(rèn)為，你應(yīng)該把自己看成藝術(shù)家，而不是服務(wù)員。

45.D。that在這里指“認(rèn)為自己是一個(gè)有一天能成為藝術(shù)家的服務(wù)員”；work指“成為藝術(shù)家”，本句的意思是“那只能讓你喜歡的工作(成為藝術(shù)家)留在遙遠(yuǎn)的將來(lái)�！�

46.A。rather在這里表示否定，相當(dāng)于instead。注意本句的結(jié)構(gòu)：supporting yourself by waiting tables為狀語(yǔ)，think yourself as an artist… and paint，or draw為句子的主要部分，and前后的動(dòng)詞為順接，因此A項(xiàng)為最佳選項(xiàng)。

47.B�！耙恍瞧谧�24小時(shí)的服務(wù)員也許能掙到生存的薪水�！眕ossible在這里表示“可能性”。其它選項(xiàng)不合題意。

48.C�！耙恍瞧谥蛔�24小時(shí)服務(wù)員，那就會(huì)給自己留下足夠的時(shí)間投身于培訓(xùn)或提高手藝�！�

49.D。off在這里用作形容詞，意思是“其余的”。整個(gè)第二段以“working as an artist，while supporting yourself by waiting tables”為例說(shuō)明作者開(kāi)頭所提出的"Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible，even if you don’t get paid for it, or you can only work at it part-time.”。

50.A。分析本句結(jié)構(gòu)是選對(duì)此空的關(guān)鍵。while seeking the work you love是時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)從句，you love即that you love，作定語(yǔ)修飾work,因此it helps to…為主句。it為形式主語(yǔ)，真正的主語(yǔ)是不定式，help在這里是“有幫助，起作用”的意思。

51.C。從下一句“Having opened  52  (all) the possibilities．you can make a final  53  (decision) and select the work you love as your own．”可知作者在此認(rèn)為你不應(yīng)該把自己局限到(1imited to)你應(yīng)該是什么或已成為什么的觀念上。

52.B。從空后的you can make a final  53  (decision)得此答案。

53.A。先是打開(kāi)所有的可能，然后作出最終決定，最后選出最喜歡的。

54.B。“做你所喜歡的工作要求你把想象和實(shí)際平等對(duì)待�！�

55.B。從后文我們得知the imaginative指big dreams，而the practical指all the little details。