Passage 1

    If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses.Success or ___1___ in your work would depend, to a great extent, ___2___ your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. ___3___ the utmost importance is your attitude. A person who begins a job convinced that he isn going to like it or is certain that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure ___4___ his belief that he is probably as capable of doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt ___5___ it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well.

    Having the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A book keeper who can add or a carpenter who can cut a straight line with a saw ___6___ hopeless cases.

     This book has been designed to help you capitalize ___7___ the strength and overcome the weakness that you bring to the job of learning. But in order to measure your development, you must first take stock of where you stand now. ___8___ we get further along in the book, wel be dealing in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening ___9___ skills. However, to begin with, you should pause to examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to yoursuccess or failure in school: your ___10___ , your reading and communicationskills, and your study habits.

    1. A. improvement B. victory C. failure D. achievement

    2. A. in B. on C. of D. to

    3. A. Out of B. Of C. To D. Into

    4. A. onto B. on C. off D. in

    5. A. near B. on C. by D. at

    6. A. being B. been C. are D. is

    7. A. except B. but C. for D. on

    8. A. as B. till C. over D. out

    9. A. learnt B. learned C. learning D. learn

    10. A. intelligence B. work C. attitude D. weakness

    1.【答案】C

    【解析】本句的意思是：“成功或失败在很大程度上取决于你是否能扬长避短。”improvement改进；victory胜利；achievement成果，成就。这三个词都不合题意，只有C.failure“失败”最合适。

    2.【答案】B

    【解析】on与前面的depend构成本句谓语。

    3.【答案】B

    【解析】of与名词连用,表示具有某种性质,状态，做表语。置于句首，表示强调。来源：www.examda.com正常语序为：Your attitude is of the utmost importance.

    4.【答案】D

    【解析】in one磗 belief相信。其它选项都不能与belief搭配。

    5.【答案】D

    【解析】attempt用做名词，后接介词at，意为“试图，努力”；如果后面接介词on，表示攻击的意思。其他两项都不能与attempt搭配。

    6.【答案】D

    【解析】本句主语是A book keeper or carpenter … 。根据主谓一致原则，其谓语应当用单数is，而不是复数are, being, been都是分词，应该排除。

    7.【答案】D

    【解析】on与前面的capitalize搭配，表示“利用”。做不定式help的补语。其它选项不能与capitalize搭配。

    8.【答案】A

    【解析】本句的意思是：“随着更深入的阅读”，从语法角度，此处应填关联词。四个选项中，只有as能用做关联词。

    9.【答案】C

    【解析】根据上下文，这里应当指“学习技能”。

    10.【答案】C

    【解析】本句对全文进行总结概括，与文章的开头相呼应，Of the utmost importance is your attitude故选attitude。
 Passage 2

    For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation.To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, inter-office communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In ___1___ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend quickly can mean the difference between success and failure.Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are ___2___ readers. Most of us develop poor reading habits at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency ___3___ in the actual stuff of language itself --- words.Taken individually, words have little meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. ___4___ , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to reread words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over ___5___ you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading.Another habit which slows down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.

    To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an ___6___ , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate ___7___ the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, making word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first ___8___ is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found ___9___ reading skill drastically improved after some training. Take Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can ___10___ a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

    1. A.applying B. doing C. offering D. getting

    2. A.good B. curious C. poor D. urgent

    3. A.lies B. combines C .touches Dinvolves

    4. A.Fortunately B. In fact C. Logically D. Unfortunately

    5. A.what B. which C. that D. if

    6. A.accelerator B. actor C. amplifier D. observer

    7. A.then B. as C. beyondD. than

    8. A.meaning B. comprehension C. gistD. regression

    9. A.our B.your C. their D. such a

    10. A.master B. go over C. present D. get through

    1.【答案】D

    【解析】本句意思是“谁如果想谋得一份差事”。applying需加for,意思是“申请”；B.doing做；C.offering提供此三项均不符题意，　只有D.getting(获得)适合。

    2.【答案】C

    【解析】英语中，阅读速度快的人称为good reader，反之，就是poor reader。根据上下文的内容，多数人都属于poor reader，因此选poor(差的)。其它选项不妥。

    3.【答案】A

    【解析】此处说的是“主要的困难在于语言的自身要素，即单词”。combines联合；touches接触；involves包括，这三项的词义与原文不符。而lies与in构成搭配，意为“在于”。

    4.【答案】D

    【解析】此句意为“作者对未受过阅读训练的人的不良习惯感到遗憾”。Fortunately幸运地；In fact事实上