【题文】Take Heart, and Take Risks

Recently, we carried out an interesting social experiment. The participants were asked to choose between two _______: throw a coin to win one billion dollars if the coin happens to land on heads, or get a 10-million-dollar cheque without even throwing the coin.

Our purpose was not to measure the participants’ craze for money but to _______ their risk appetite. It _______ that a clear majority chose to take home the 10 million dollars. Only 31% of the subjects were _______ enough to test the depths of the river. Another study, conducted by psychology professor Keith Simonton at the University of California Davis, shows that most famous scientific _______ are risk-takers. Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton all dared to chase ideas that were _______ the mainstream ideas of their times.

The willingness to take risks without fear of failure is what _______ individuals towards achieving their ambitions. It forms a very important part of the stories of many successful businessmen globally.

The journey of Mark Zuckerberg is a classic example of this. In his second year in college, Zuckerberg decided to quit Harvard University to manage his social application company. In the years that followed, quite a few tech giants expressed early interest in purchasing the company. Their offers were _______. At the time, the young CEO and his team were widely criticized and publicly laughed at.

Today, Zuckerberg is one of the richest men on earth. His company still owns the most widely used social networking site in the world, _______ together over 2.8 billion users globally.

The lesson from Zuckerberg’s story is his risk-taking ________. He’s exactly the kind of person who’s willing to ________ interests for more rewarding future gains.

Generally, ________ achievements are often realized once a person decides to get out of their comfort zone. People’s ability to ________ from their comfort zone is closely tied to their risk-taking strength. It is like the case of a person who wishes to get a piece of fruit from the tree but is not willing to risk climbing up the branches of the tree in order to do so. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to ________ the ordinary,” said the American author Jim Rohn.

The willingness to take risks is the oxygen that drives success in every field. If a risk-taker succeeds, he can lead others. If he fails, he may ________ others to success.

【小题1】

A．games

B．faces

C．options

D．perspectives

【小题2】

A．access

B．evaluate

C．lose

D．satisfy

【小题3】

A．ran out

B．set out

C．gave out

D．turned out

【小题4】

A．courageous

B．risky

C．confident

D．mature

【小题5】

A．contestants

B．cooperators

C．figures

D．partners

【小题6】

A．subject to

B．contrary to

C．agreeable to

D．relevant to

【小题7】

A．provides

B．puzzles

C．leans

D．drives

【小题8】

A．scaled

B．declined

C．considered

D．weighed

【小题9】

A．visualizing

B．pursuing

C．connecting

D．announcing

【小题10】

A．tendency

B．investment

C．currency

D．proposal

【小题11】

A．deposit

B．capture

C．separate

D．sacrifice

【小题12】

A．eye-catching

B．groundbreaking

C．risk-taking

D．trustworthy

【小题13】

A．depart

B．benefit

C．emerge

D．suffer

【小题14】

A．send for

B．apply for

C．account for

D．settle for

【小题15】

A．warn

B．force

C．guide

D．retire

上海市青浦区2023届高三二模英语试题(含听力）