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六、完形填空(10%) 

          We often talk about ourselves as if (好像) we have genetic defects (基因缺陷) ”that cjan never be changed. “I'm not patient." “I'm always behind." “I always put things off!” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you've used them to describe 1

         These words may come from stories about us that have been 2 for years一often from as far back as childhood. As a child,my mother said to me, “Marshall,you have no mechanical (機械操作的) skills,and you will 3 have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life." How did these words affect (影響) my development? I was never 4 to work on cars. When I was 18 ,I took the US Army's Mechanical Aptitude (能力) Test. My grades were in the bottom for the whole country.

         Six years later,5 ，I was at California University,working on my doctor's degree One of my teachers,Dr. Bob Tannbaum,asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. I wrote ,“I have no mechanical vskills." Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I talked about my life 6 and told him about my poor performance on the Army test. Bob then asked ,“ 7 is it that you can do difficult maths problems,but you can't do simple mechanical problems?”

         8 I realized that I didn't have any kind of genetic defect. I was the one who kept 9 myself ,“You can't do this! ” I realized that as long as I kept saying that,it was going to be true. On the opposite,if we don't treat ourselves as if we Gave incurable (不可冶愈的) genetic defects,we can do well in almost 10 we choose.

() 1. A. them   B. myself   C. yourself   D. others

() 2. A. asked   B. spoken   C. listened   D. repeated

() 3. A. often   B. sometimes   C. never   D. always

() 4. A. allowed   B. changed   C. hoped   D. improved

() 5. A. so   B. but   C. instead   D. however

() 6. A. experiences   B. trips   C. goals   D. files

() 7. A. When   B. What   C. How   D. Why

() 8. A. Really   B. Quickly   C. Suddenly   D. Clearly

() 9. A. telling   B. saying   C. talking   D. speaking

() 10. A. anything   B. something   C. nothing   D. none

Answer 1

六、 1-5 CDCAD    6-10 ADCAA.