Question

A wise man once said, “A man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything.” It took me a long time to gather the   36  to admit that I had been making mistakes since my earliest days.   37  , many of the things that I had learned were   38  .

As a child from a poor family, I learned that when you had money, you were   39   to spend it on whatever brought you happiness   40  . I didn’t understand that even though putting money in the bank would not   41   me that quick joy, it could provide a sense of   42  — I still had that money.

One problem is that I never had an opportunity to   43   any money of my own until late in my teen years. All of my gift money   44   to my parents for “saving”, which actually   45   to be an emergency fund(風險基金) for things such as food.

On rare   46  , some relatives would give me some money, but they would   47   in my ear not to tell my mother and to spend it quickly on something fun. Their   48   was good — they wanted to bring joy to the life of a “  49  ”boy, but it didn’t teach me any   50   skills. Soon I would go back to having no money.

Another thing is that I believed that   51   help from others was bad. My parents were strict, and in many ways I   52   their philosophy (處事原則), but their personal beliefs prevented them from ever accepting any help.   53   we often had to live on a single part-time income, we never asked   54   anything. In this way, I was led to believe that accepting a helping hand, even in   55   of great need, was a sign of weakness.

36. A. time                          B. power                      C. courage                    D. chance

37. A. Otherwise                  B. Also                         C. Instead                         D. However

38. A. different                    B. common                   C. big                          D. wrong

39. A. supposed                    B. determined               C. ordered                    D. left

40. A. naturally                    B. immediately             C. probably                  D. eventually

41. A. buy                           B. prove                       C. sell                          D. show

42. A. direction                    B. guilty                       C. safety                       D. difference

43. A. receive                   B. lend                         C. manage                    D. earn

44. A. gave                          B. went                        C. borrowed                 D. left

45. A. added up                    B. came up                   C. gave out                   D. turned out

46. A. states                         B. occasions                  C. situations                  D. moments

47. A. shout                         B. explain                     C. whisper                    D. insist

48. A. plan                          B. information                     C. look                         D. intention

49. A. naughty                          B. poor                       C. hopeless                   D. lovely

50. A. financial                    B. imaginative                     C. popular                    D. formal

51. A. offering                          B. accepting                C. begging                    D. demanding

52. A. disobeyed                  B. ignored                    C. respected                  D. agreed

53. A. Even if                    B. Now that                C. Unless                      D. Until

54. A. about                         B. around                            C. against                            D. for

55. A. groups                     B. terms                            C. ways                        D. times

Answer 1

36—40 CBDAB  41—45 ACCBD  46—50 BCDBA  51—55 BCADD

解析:

不犯錯誤的人往往也是無所作為的人。多年以后，“我”才有勇氣承認早年犯的錯誤，如：不會理財，拒絕他人幫助。

36. C。 可知人們在犯了錯誤的時候多是沒有“勇氣”承認自己的錯誤，和courage; power“權力，勢力”；courage“勇氣”；chance“機會”。

37. B。除了自己犯的那些錯誤，還有一點就是自己學到的一些看法或者做法是不對的；otherwise“否則”；also“而且，此外”；instead“相反”；however“然而”。

38. D。根據末段內容以及作者的語氣判斷父母教給他的一些處事原則是不對的。

39. A。be supposed to do“應該做”；這里指作者小時候認為，只要有了錢，就應該快點花掉，去買一些讓自己高興的東西；be determined to do“決定做某事”；be ordered to do“被命令做”；be

left to do“被留下做”，都不合題意，因此選擇supposed。

40. B。根據本段中的quick joy可知作者想要表達的是“有了錢就去買東西，從而讓自己迅速地獲得幸福”。

41. A。把錢存在銀行，因此不能讓你立刻去“購買”幸福，因此選擇buy。

42. C。根據I still had that money可知，把錢存在銀行里，沒有把它都花掉，因此心里會有一種安全感。

43. C。根據后面的內容，作者所得到的錢都被父母存起來最終用于餐桌食物等方面的“風險基金”了，可判斷作者沒有機會“管理”自己的錢，用manage;根據下文，“my gift money”,可排除receive“收到”；lend “借給”；earn“賺”。

44. B。sth go to sb.“某物由某人得到”；give“給予”，leave“留下”，在此處都應用被動形式。

45. D。父母名義上為作者存著錢，但是這些錢最終都成了緊急救濟款，用在別處上了；turn out to be“結果是，最終是”；add up “加起來”；give out“用完，耗盡”；come up“出現，被提出”。

46. B。在極少數情況下，一些親戚會給作者一些錢；on…occasion“在……場合下”；state“狀態”；situation“形勢”；moment“時刻”。

47. C。根據后面的in my ear not to tell…可知她們是偷偷給作者錢，所以在他的耳邊“低語”，讓他不要告訴他的媽媽，并且趕緊把這筆錢花掉；whisper“低語，竊竊私語”。

48. D。她們的“意圖”是好的，想讓作者高興，用intention; plan“計劃”；information“信息”；look “表情”，不合題意。

49. B。根據上文可知作者自己手里沒有錢，由第二段開頭也可知，作者是個“窮孩子”。

50. A。本文講述的是理財的經歷，因此此處用financial“金融的”。Imaginative“富有想象力的”；popular“流行的”，formal“正式的”，和本文內容不符。

51. B。根據本段末句可得提示，此處說“從別人那里獲得幫助”。

52. C。根據My parents were strict and in many ways…中的and判斷父母的處事原則；and連接并列含義的詞，因此作者不會是對父母的處事原則表示反對或者忽略；選項D中agree后不能直接跟賓語。

53. A。即便我們有時窮得只靠打工的錢生活，我們也決不接濟生活。

54. D。ask for“要某物”。

55. D。in times of“在……時候”；這里指因為父母的影響使得作者認為即使是在最困難的時候接受別人的幫助也是一種軟弱的表現。