英译汉
After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, marked1 to5. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A),B), C) and D ). You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
In one way of thinking, failure is part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The "spider story" is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times to span the gap. On the seventh time he made it and went on to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and gone to defeat the English ... Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models before he found the right way to make one.
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top form yourself? What can you change so that things will go right next time?
Second, is the goal you are trying to reach the right one? Try to do thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question, " If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?"This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn't be doing anyway.
The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it's part of life. Learn to "live with yourself" even though you may have failed. Remember, "You can't win'era all. "
1. From Paragraph One, we know that ( )
A) Bruce failed six times before he defeated the English
B) Bruce invented the light bulb
C) Bruce defeated the English in the end
D) the spider failed hundreds Of times before he succeeded
2. Edison's example in the passage shows that( )
A) failure is the mother of success
B) spiders will help us if we fail
C) failure must come before success
D) models resulted in Edison's failure
3. The lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce seems ( )
A) productive B) profound C) sorrowful D) straightforward
4. One thing the writer does NOT tell you to do to cope with failure is( )
A) to check your goals to see if they are right for you
B) to think about failure as part of life
C) to think about failure to find out what went wrong
D) to avoid what are beyond you
5. Which of the following is NOT true?( )
A) The spider inspired Robert Bruce.
B) Bruce and Edison were successful examples.
C) Edison profited a lot from the lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce.
D) Failure may be regarded as a way towards success.