With the help of Gloria ,his wife ,Tom Peterson worked for many years to build a solid business selling television sets, stereo systems, and home appliances. Tom developed an excellent with their full satisfaction guarantee and friendly service. He was proud of his high percentage of repeat .
About five years ago, Tom was by the owners of a competing company, Stereo Super Stores. They wanted him to them out. The price was very attractive. Everything looked good. Before making his final Tom asked Gloria what she thought about the purchase. She told him that the numbers looked good it didn't feel to her. However, Tom was so self-confident and so convinced that this was a rare , he went ahead and made the . Within months he discovered that he had made a big . He had paid too much for a company. He tried as hard as he could to make it work out, but he couldn't turn things . He was forced into bankruptcy（破产）. He was about to lose everything, including his business.
Tom was embarrassed, but he is a survivor. He looked at his situation. He decided to admit his mistake and, rather than getting stuck in lawsuits(诉讼), he would focus his on saving and rebuilding his original business. He saw also that he had made a mistake by not listening to his , and that he needed to learn from this .He dealt with the crisis in a way that delighted people, who in turn respect for him. Old customers poured into his store. He and Gloria _to changes in retailing(零售) and have built an even better business than before.
In the business world, it is natural to gain and lose, of Peterson’s experience is an example. Only those who regard their mistakes as gifts and learn from them attract endless profits.
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解析试题分析：文章介绍Tom Peterson原来生意做的很好，但是因为自己犯了一个错误，导致生意破产，但是他没有消沉，而是努力挽回局面，并适应市场的改变，让原来的生意重新红火起来，我们获得一个道理：吸取一个教训，可以赢得一份礼物。
【小题1】考查名词辨析：A.popularity流行，人气，B. reputation名声，C. cause 原因，D. foundation基础，从with their full satisfaction guarantee and friendly service.可知汤姆因为售后服务好所以名声很好，选B
【小题2】考查名词辨析：A.customers顾客，B. assistants助手，C. friends朋友，D. visitors游客，他为回头客很多而骄傲，选A
【小题3】考查动词辨析：A.appointed 任命，B. approved同意，C. approached靠近，D. appreciated欣赏，5年前，一个竞争对手的公司主人朝汤姆走过来，选C
【小题4】考查动词辨析：A.sell销售，B. pay付钱，C. buy买，D. check核对，从下文的The price was very attractive.可知这个公司希望汤姆能收购他们，选C
【小题5】考查名词辨析：A.decision决定，B. choice选择，C.determination决定，D. judgement判断，在做最后的决定前，汤姆问Gloria对这次的收购怎么看。选A
【小题6】考查连词辨析：A.as though 好像，B. now that既然，C. even though即使，D. in case以防，她告诉他即使数字看起来很好，但是她感觉不对。选C
【小题7】考查形容词辨析：A.terrible 可怕的，B. fair公平的，C. right对的，D. attractive有吸引力的，她告诉他即使数字看起来很好，但是她感觉不对。选C
【小题8】考查名词辨析：A.possibility可能，B. occasion偶然，C. event事件，D. opportunity机会，汤姆太自信的，相信这是一次很好的机会，选D
【小题9】考查名词辨析：A.profit利益，B. purchase购买，C. reservation保留，D. appointment任命，委派，从上文：Tom asked Gloria what she thought about the purchase.可知汤姆进行了收购，选B
【小题10】考查名词辨析：A.difference不同，B. discovery发现，C. commitment奉献，投入，D. mistake错误，从下文的：He had paid too much for a 46 company.可知他意识到自己犯了一个错误，选D
【小题11】考查形容词辨析：A.dying快死的，B. controversial有争议的，C. clumsy笨拙的，D. tiring令人疲劳的，从下文的：He tried as hard as he could to make it work out, but he couldn't turn things 47 .可知他花了很多钱买的是一个快要破产的公司，选A
【小题12】考查副词辨析：A. in在…里面，B. around在…周围，C. down向下，D. up向上，他尽了最大努力，但是不能扭转局面，turn around转身，（使）好转，选B
【小题13】考查形容词辨析：.A.original最初的，原始的，B. various各种各样的，C. unique独特的，D. precious珍贵的，从下文he would focus his 50 on saving and rebuilding his original business.可知他要失去一切包括他以前的公司，选A
【小题14】考查副词辨析：A.quietly安静地，B. loudly大声地，C. openly公开地，D. secretly秘密地，他决定公开承认自己的错误，选C
【小题15】考查名词辨析：A.beliefs信念，B. spirits精神，C. attempts试图，D. energies精力，他将经历都用来拯救重建原来的公司，选D
【小题16】考查名词辨析：A.producer生产商，B. wife妻子，C. relative亲戚，D. adviser顾问，劝告者，从上文的句子：Tom asked Gloria what she thought about the purchase.可知汤姆没有听妻子的话，选B
【小题17】考查名词辨析：A.experience经验，经历，B. enterprise 企（事）业单位，事业，计划，事业心，进取心，C. process过程，D. history历史，他知道要从这次经历中吸取教训，选A
【小题18】考查动词辨析：.A.won赢得，B. showed展示，C. achieved获得，D. earned挣得，他处理危机的方式让人们高兴，反过来，人们对他很尊敬。Show respect for sb.尊敬某人，选B
【小题19】考查动词辨析：A.belonged属于，B. adapted适应，C. adopted采纳，收养，D. appealed吸引，他和Gloria适应零售业的改变，生意比以前更好，选B
【小题20】考查定语从句：在商业领域得失是很正常的其中Peterson就是一个例子。这里是定语从句，先行词是examples，定语从句用of which引导，选D
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
My brother and I were brought up in a town in Scotland. Our father was a struggling , but I always knew he was . He never criticized us, but used to bring out our best. He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die.” I as a child I said something about somebody, and my father said, “ time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best people, I would get the best .From then on I’ve always tried to the principle in my life and later in running my company.
Dad’s also always been very . At 15, I started a magazine. It was a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a ：stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.
I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision, any good father would. When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad me to go into law. And I’ve __regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist, _ I didn’t pursue my .You know what you want. Go fulfill it.”
As turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national for young people in the U.K.My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad me.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I was fifteen when I walked into Black Stump Bookstore in Liverpool. As I was looking at on the shelves, the shop owner asked if I’d like . I needed to start for college, so I said yes. I worked after school and during summers for the lowest wages, and the job helped my first year of college. I had worked in many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students’ Union during college, I was a hotel maid and I make maps for the Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most .
One day a woman asked me for books on women’s diseases. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost everything we had at that time and found other books we could order. She left the store less . I’ve always remembered the felt in having helped her.
Years later, as a in London, I heard about a black child born his fingers connected. His family could not a corrective operation, and the boy lived in hiding his hand in pocket. I my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the for free. I visited the boy in the room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his hand and say “ Thank you.” I felt a sense of .
In the past I was at Black Stump Bookstore, I always sensed I was working for the customers, not the store. Today, it’s the same. BBC News pays my , but I feel as if I work for the viewers, helping them understand the world.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
It was a perfect day, just the right kind of day to go fishing
My 13-year-old son Jonathan and I had been this trip for weeks, and now we were sitting on the shore of a beautiful lake.
We and talked, and then, suddenly, I saw small waves my float(浮子）had been. I waited, thinking it would pop right back up again, but the float stayed the water and my heart started to beat ．After a few more seconds, my fishing rod was suddenly pulled off the stick it was leaning on me and it was being towards the water.
I firmly caught hold of the fishing rod and lifted it up. This fish was ! Slowly, my son balanced on two rocks and leaned down to get the giant off the fishhook.
For just one second, he lost his and reached up with his right hand to steady . At that moment, our huge fish got off the fishing line and started to swim
I saw teas streaming down Jonathan's face. "Dad, I'm sorry. I'll never be able to this up to you." I reached out and put my hands on his shoulders. I said the following almost without thinking. "Jon, how did you feel I was reeling(往卷轴上绕起）that fish in? Were you excited?" He nodded and said，"Dad，I've never been so in my whole life!”I repied,
"Jon, wasn’t that about the most fun we've ever had together?" He nodded his head in ．
Then I said, "So, why should we let a fish getting away possibly the best experience we've ever had? Let’s be happy about the fun we did have."
My son, his arms around me, said,"Dad, I love you so much!”1 him back and said softly into his ear, "I love you too, Jon."
We did catch that big fish. But I've known ever since that I didn't let the most important thing get away that day.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Tyler was a troubled student.He was in my senior class last year.It was __1__ to his former teachers that he had made it to his senior year.
He sat in the back row.Every time I spoke in the front of the class，I would ask students questions，__2__ them by name.This helped me learn their names while getting the kids __3__.Unfortunately，every time I asked him a question，he would __4__ with a flip(轻率的) answer.He knew the answers when he listened __5__ he didn’t want to be asked.If he got a wrong answer，he would get very angry.
One day，Tyler was talking while I was teaching.In the __6__ of teaching I said，“Tyler，why are you having your own discussion instead of __7__ ours？” With that，he __8__ from his chair，pushed it over，and yelled.I sent him to the office with a discipline referral，and he __9__ a week’s out of school suspension.
The week’s out of school suspension was wonderful.However，the week soon came to a(n) __10__，and I began to worry about his __11__.I knew from talking with his other teachers that he would be back even angrier.
I made a(n) __12__.On the day that he came back，I stood at the door __13__ him.As soon as I saw him，I asked him to talk for a moment.He seemed __14__ to do it but agreed.I told him that I wanted to start over(重新开始) with him.Furthermore，I gave him permission that if he felt he was going to lose __15__ in class he could step right outside the door for a moment to collect himself.
From that point on，Tyler was a(n) __16__ student in my classroom.He listened and participated.He was __17__ a smart child and I could finally get to see this in him.He even __18__ a fight between two other students one day.I __19__ that giving him the power to decide for himself made all the __20__.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Jay Wilson was my English teacher at Lake Forest High School. It was him realized my potential in writing, and his made me a writer eventually.
He was kind to me, but I had no that he took particular notice of me. There were other kids in the class, and soon I fell back into my usual and thought that I was just a little over average in most things. Near the end of the term, we began to read the play--Macbeth. Believe me, this is not an easy play for high school students to understand, I spent a lot of time reading it. After working till the night before it was due, I wrote a paper about the — the first paper I typed on a typewriter — and turned it the next day.
I got a good on it, and below the grade Mr. Wilson wrote, “Sure you become a writer.” That was it. Those six words were written in his clear and neat handwriting. It was the first time he or anyone had in any way that writing was a option for me. We’d never had any writers in our family line, and we didn’t know any writers personally, even , so writing for a living didn’t seem something to me. But then, just like that, Jay Wilson tapped my hidden and let me see a wider world.
Over the next 10 years, I often about Mr. Wilson’s six words. Whenever I felt discouraged, it was those six words that came back to me and gave me . When a few instructors in college gently and not-so-gently tried to tell me I had no talent, I held Mr. Wilson’s before me to protect myself. I didn’t what anyone else thought. Mr. Wilson, head of the whole English department at Lake Forest High, I could be a writer. So I put my head down and struggled forward. 396
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Our tolerating ability is indeed beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our tolerating ability.
There was a woman in the countryside who had to with her children wherever she could at the age of 26 due to the Japanese army’s . Many people could not bear the and wanted to commit suicide. After she knew about it, she would come to those people and them by saying, “Don’t do that silly thing. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome. The Japanese armies are sure to be one day!”
Finally she insisted until the day when all the Japanese armies were kicked out of China. However, her son died of disease without medicine and nutrition in those days of hardships. Her husband lay in bed for two days without eating and drinking . She teared to her husband and said, “We have a tough , but however tough our lives will be, we should never . Though our son has passed away, we can have another. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome.”
After giving birth to the second son, her husband died of edema(水肿), which blew her away. But eventually, she and hugged the three young children, saying, “My sweet hearts, don’t feel scared. You still have me, your dear mum!”
It took her painstaking efforts to raise her children up and the life of her family was getting . She was aging and could not do the farm work any more. she stayed at home and did some housework. Nevertheless, the Heaven to show no affection to her who had undergone a rough life. She lived until 86. Before she went to Heaven, she said to her children, “You all should live your best. There are no such setbacks that we could not overcome!”
We will get to realize our own iron will and strong tolerating after getting stricken heavily. Therefore, no matter what you are suffering from now, do not merely complain about the of our destiny.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
As a teacher．I often make it a rule that when we are on a field trip，there will be no talking aswe enter a building．This rule to entering any place，whether it is a cinema，a church，a theatre, or any other place．
Once，in New York City，I took my class to see a(n) near Times Square．When we
arrived at the theatre，there were about twenty other classes outside waiting to get in．The students from the other schools were not and there was pandemonium(乌烟瘴气)．I told my students to stay in a line and keep ．I told them that we would not carry ourselves like those other ． Soon we started to file into the theatre，and it was very disorganized．There was a lady the groups and get them to their seats， students were everywhere and really knew where to go．My class，observing our rule，walked in in two single-file lines． We stood near the door behind everyone else，and we ．All of a sudden，the lady who was noticed us and she walked our direction． She asked the students the teacher was for our group, and I raised my ．She asked,“Very, very nice to meet you．Come this way．”We were led into the theatre， ，and we were given front-row seats．
Sometimes for others may not seem like it is going to have an effect，especially when you no one around who is taking manners into ．However，that is usually the time when such actions will be most appreciated and recognized．
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
He must have been completely lost in something he was reading because I had to tap on the windscreen to get his attention.
“Is your taxi____?” I asked when he finally looked____at me. He nodded, then said____as I settled into the back seat, “I'm sorry, but I was reading a____.” He sounded as if he had a____.
“I am not in a hurry, ” I told him. “Go ahead and finish your letter. ” He____his head. “I've read it several times already. I guess I____ know it by heart. ”
“Letters from home always mean a lot, ” I said. “From a child?”
“This isn't____,” he replied. “Although it ____ just as well have been family. Old Ed was my oldest friend. In fact, we used to call each other ‘Old Friend’ when we'd meet. I'm not much good at ____.”
“I don't think any of us keep____our letters too well,” I said. “I know I don't. But I____ he's someone you've known quite a while?”
“All my life. We were kids together, went to school together and all the ____ through high school. ”
“There are not too many people who've had such a long friendship,” I said.
“____,” the driver went on, “I hadn't seen him more than once or twice a year over the past 25 or 30 years because I____away from the old neighbourhood and you slightly lose touch ____ you never forget. He was a great guy.”
“You said ‘was’. Does that mean...?”
He nodded. “____a couple of weeks ago.”
“I'm sorry, ” I said. “It's no fun to lose any friend and losing a real old one is____ tougher. ”
He didn't ____ to that, and we rode on in silence for a few minutes. But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind when he spoke again, almost more to himself than to me: “I should have kept in touch. ”
“Well, ” I agreed, “we should all keep in touch with old friends more than we do. But things____ and we just don't seem to find the time. ”
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When I got to my hotel room I didn't unpack right away. First I had to write a letter and mail it.
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