选修七 Unit 4 高考提能练 练(一) 英语知识运用·组块专练——练准度 (限时:30分钟) .完形填空 (2016·成都石室中学二诊)A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor. They talked about the __1__ topic — happiness. But soon their conversation turned into complaints about __2__ in work and life. To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and __3__ with a large pot of coffee and a variety of __4__ — plastic, glass, metal, porcelain (陶瓷), some plainlooking, some very __5__. The professor told his students to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in __6__, the professor said, “If you have noticed, all the nicelooking __7__ cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is __8__ for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the __9__ of your problems and stress.” The professor continued, “Believe that the cup itself adds no __10__ to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases it even __11__ what we drink. What all of you __12__ wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went __13__ the best cups. Now __14__ this: life is coffee, the jobs, money, and __15__ in society are the cups which are just tools to hold and __16__ life, and the different types of cups we have don?t decide, nor __17__ the quality of life. If we concentrate only on the cups, we will __18__ to enjoy the coffee in it. So don?t let the cups __19__ you ... enjoy the coffee instead.” |