A. It's really family first
B. the real work will start when they walk off the stage
C. then it was just a penalty
D. because I'm a pretty street-smart guy
Yorke: You've talked about finding meaning in suffering. What do you mean by that?
McGrow: Everybody at some point is going to have misfortune. I think if we don't learn from that,【D7】______But if you use it, then it becomes tuition. I draw a lot on my personal experiences. It's hard for people to deceive me,【D8】______
Yorke: Are there families who come on your show but whom you feel you just can't help?
McGrow: I never think that I'm doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an emotional compass that points them down the path, but【D9】______
Yorke: What would you say is the greatest value system that you have?
McGrow:【D10】______Our family and its properties, needs, values, come before everything else—work, recreation, whatever.
单选题 【D7】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】对话前面Yorke问到:“你常说从痛苦中找到意义,这是什么意思呢?”McGrow对此解释就是“如果我们不从痛苦中学习,那么痛苦就是个惩罚(penalty)。如果我们利用了它,那就是笔学费(tuition)了。”这里有很明显的对比关系,it指代misfortune(厄运)。故选C。
单选题 【D8】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】空格前面McGrow说到很难欺骗(deceive)到他,下面应交待原因,选择D最合适(因为他是个很熟悉都市生活方式的人)。这里street—smart意为“在城市中有灵活的生存能力”。故选D。
单选题 【D9】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】谈到对某些家庭问题在电视节目上的治疗效果,McGrow否认他会使用“快速疗法”(eight—minute cures),但他会是个“情感的指南针”(emotional compass),使得真正起作用的时候是他们走下舞台之后。故选B。
单选题 【D10】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】针对前面Yorke提出的问题“什么是你所拥有的最有价值的东西?”,空格后谈到家庭,显然McGrow认为家庭是最为重要的。所以空格填family first。故选A。