Question

【题目】阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺。选项中有一项为多余项。

What is life's greatest gift? It is choice. Choice is the ability to choose some actions from a set of things to achieve a goal.【1】 The reason is that it turns us from dumb animals into artists. Choice becomes the tool we use to sculpt(雕刻) our life. The tool doesn't come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility. 【2】 It is enjoyment.

Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It's the creative power of life. Life is always changing and we have to make lots of choices. 【3】 We often need to check where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what action will I take now to make myself realize my goals?

【4】 And our life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. For example, you decide which stores to shop at and which bus station to go to.But the decisions that we make to sculpt our lives are much more important than deciding where to shop. The more we understand the difference between small and big decisions, the more pleasure we will get.

Life is like a chess game.【5】 All chess lovers realize that it isn't necessary to win to enjoy the game. Make the best moves you can under the conditions. Then you can enjoy your life.

A．Why is choice so great?

B．The pleasure is in the playing.

C．In fact, we have to make choices every day.

D．But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return.

E．Because making right choices is more important than working hard.

F．Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】F

【4】C

【5】B

【解析】

本文主要讲述了“选择”非常重要，每个人每天都要面临各种各样的选择。选择是雕刻我们人生的工具，不同的选择会使我们的人生发生不同的改变。选择可以使我们的生活变得更舒适更方便，我们越是明白大小选择之间的不同，我们就会得到越多的快乐。

【1】根据后文The reason is that it turns us from dumb animals into artists.中的the reason that…说明前文问的是为什么，结合第一句话What is life's greatest gift? It is choice.所以这里在问为什么说选择是如此的伟大，故选A。

【2】结合前后文及所给选项，该项中carry out it中it指代的是上句中的responsibility；虽然选择意味着责任，但是同时又会给我们带来巨大的回报，那就是快乐。故选D。

【3】根据后文We often need to check where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? 可知我们做的每一个选择都会使我们离目标的距离发生改变，故选F。

【4】根据后文And our life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. 可以推测正是“因为每天都在选择，而使生活变得更加舒适和方便”。另外后文举例For example, you decide which stores to shop at and which bus station to go to.也是在说明前文的观点，即我们每天都要做出选择，故选B。

【5】根据后文的All chess lovers realize that it isn't necessary to win to enjoy the game.说明象棋爱好者认为赢还是输并不会影响你对游戏的享受，真正的快乐在于下棋的过程，故选B。

快速阅读短文，明白短文大意。然后根据空缺处所给句子的选项，根据上下文语境，找到他们之间的逻辑关系，推测出应填的句子，使上下文语义连贯。例如第1小题，根据后文The reason is that it turns us from dumb animals into artists.中的the reason that…说明前文问的是为什么，结合第一句话What is life's greatest gift? It is choice.所以这里在问问什么说选择是如此的伟大，故选A。