高考英语二轮复习方案专题限时训练(九)(新课标·广东专用) 议论文型语法填空 Word版含解析

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A

What on earth does happiness mean? I can't give you its exact definition, but I'm sure if you love and help 1.________，you'll get it.

I'll never forget an old lady. She lives in 2.________ small house alone. It is said that her husband and her son 3.________ (die)in a road accident years ago. Her life is bitter, but she often helps others 4.________ a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first to clean the paths. She looks after several children living nearby. I am one of them. I often remember the stories she told us and her kind smile. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of 5.________ (laugh)and love.

But I'm sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk 6.________ (noise) in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy themselves and they laugh at others' shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy at that time, 7.________ they will never get true happiness because they 8.________ (lose)their personality already.

Now I know what happiness is；9.________ means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that 10.________ (bring)happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness.

B

Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a necessary part of the learning process. 1.________ all too often as parents and teachers, we do not allow our children to have the same right. We convey either by words or by actions that failure is something to be ashamed 2.________，and that nothing but top performance lives up to our expectations.

When I see a child subject to this kind of pressure, I think of Donnie. He was 3.________ shy and nervous perfectionist. His fear of failure 4.________ (keep) him from classroom games that other children played with joyous abandon. He seldom answered questions for fear 5.________ he might be wrong. He seldom finished his work because he 6.________ (repeated) checked with me to be sure he hadn't made a mistake. I tried my best to build up 7.________ self­confidence. And I frequently asked God for direction. But nothing changed until midterm, 8.________ Mary Anne, a student teacher, was appointed to our classroom. She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie 9.________ (include), adored her. With her frequent 10.________ (courage), Donnie became confident.

C

Nowadays employees are supposed to make contributions to their companies. What is the 1.________ (value) contribution employees make to their companies, knowledge or judgment? I say judgment. Knowledge, no matter how broad, is useless 2.________ it is applied. And application takes judgment, 3.________ involves something of a sixth sense —a high performance of the mind.

This raises interesting questions about the best 4.________ (train) for today's business people. As Daniel Goleman suggests in 5.________ new book, Emotional Intelligence, the latest scientific findings seem to indicate that clever 6.________ inflexible