One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor _______ the question papers, with the text facing down as usual._______ all the students got the papers, he asked them to _______ the page and begin. To everyone's surprise, there were no _______ , just a black dot (点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone's face, told them the following:
"I want you to write what you _______ there.”
The students,_______, got started on the inexplicable (令人费解的) task.At the end of the class, the professor _______ all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no _______, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been _______, the classroom was silent, the professor began to explain:
"I'm not going to grade this. I ________ wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the ________ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our ________. We have a white paper to observe and ________, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a ________ given to us with love and care and we always have ________ to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that ________ our livelihood and the miracles we see every day.
________, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the ________ relationship with colleagues(同事), the ________ with a friend, and etc.
The dark spots are very ________ compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds. "
【小题1】A.pointed at | B.turned up | C.referred to | D.handed out |
【小题2】A.Since | B.After | C.While | D.Until |
【小题3】【小题4】A.questions | B.choices | C.exercises | D.scores |
【小题5】A.remember | B.imagine | C.see | D.study |
【小题6】A.confused | B.frustrated | C.curious | D.serious |
【小题7】A.finished | B.collected | C.marked | D.selected |
【小题8】A.excuse | B.doubt | C.explanation | D.exception |
【小题9】A.read | B.said | C.returned | D.answered |
【小题10】A.also | B.even | C.just | D.finally |
【小题11】A.big | B.black | C.white | D.beautiful |
【小题12】A.studies | B.classrooms | C.colleges | D.lives |
【小题13】A.send | B.enjoy | C.keep | D.show |
【小题14】A.present | B.burden | C.pressure | D.lesson |
【小题15】A.festivals | B.time | C.freedom | D.reasons |
【小题16】A.threatens | B.provides | C.ruins | D.changes |
【小题17】A.Besides | B.Therefore | C.However | D.Moreover |
【小题18】A.close | B.strong | C.special | D.complex |
【小题19】A.disappointment | B.contact | C.satisfaction | D.stay |
【小题20】A.dark | B.small | C.round | D.dirty |