Question

詞語填空通讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳答案。

Crabs(螃蟹) are very interesting . If you put several of them in a basket, the moment one of them starts getting out, the other crabs will pull him back down. So none of the crabs ever ______ in getting out. They just keep ______ each other from climbing higher than the rest of them. We humans are ______ more like crabs than we think.

______ we realize it or not, most of us want other people to be just a little less successful than we are. Friends are always ______ about your success, as long as you’re not more successful than they are ! But one of the first secrets to success is not to compare your life with others. It’s strange that many of us seem to know ______ to live everybody else’s lives but our own. Even though what happens in someone else’s life has ______ to do with ours.

Successful people always try their best to see how great life can be, ______ jealous （嫉妒的）people only see the faults and mistakes of others. Being jealous of others is just a slow way of suicide (自殺) that will______ both your health and happiness.

You are born with a special ______ and personality that no one else has. So stop comparing yourself with others and enjoy your own natural abilities and develop your own style.

1.A. succeeds B. arrives C. checks

2.A. stop B. to stop C. stopping

3.A. hardly B. perhaps C. nearly

4.A. If B.Whether C. When

5.A. happy B. nervous C. mad

6.A. where B. when C. how

7.A. something B. nothing C. everything

8.A. so B. or C. while

9.A. harm B. separate C. improve

10.A. ability B. memory C. skill

Answer 1