1 . Antonio and Charles were good friends, and both of them were sailors. One day they ran into each other in a pub._______ a few beers, Antonio told Charles about his last _______. “After a month at sea,” he said, “we _______our masts(桅杆) had been eaten through by white ants! ________ nothing was left of them.”
“That’s terrible,” said Charles.
“That’s what I thought at first too,” Antonio said, “but it turned out to be good luck. As soon as we took the sails down to fix the masts, we were hit by a(n) _____wind so suddenly and so hard, it would _______have blown us over if our sails were up at the time.”
“How lucky!”
“That’s exactly what I thought at the time too. But because our sails were down, we couldn’t _______, and because of the wind, we were blown ________ a reef. The hole in the ship was too big to fix. We were stranded(搁浅).”
“That is bad luck indeed.”
“That’s what I thought, too, when it first ________. But we all ________ it to the beach alive and had plenty to eat. But now here’s the real kicker: We were on the island ________about our terrible fate ______ we discovered a buried treasure!”
____this story proves, you don’t know if an event is “good” or “bad”, and even thinking about a _______event, you don’t really know because ______keeps going.
____, you can simply ______ whatever happens is “good”. If you think an event is good, it’s easy to have a(n) ______ attitude. And your attitude affects the ______ people treat you and how you treat others, and it affects your energy level. And those can help pave the way for things to turn out well. A good attitude is a good thing, while a bad attitude ______ no good to you.
1. 2. A.story | B.voyage | C.experience | D.event |
3. A.discovered | B.knew | C.realized | D.imagined |
4. A.Nearly | B.Mostly | C.Hardly | D.Almost |
5. A.violent | B.abnormal | C.immediate | D.tough |
6. A.probably | B.dangerously | C.instantly | D.surely |
7. A.make sense | B.change destination | C.take control | D.make difference |
8. 9. A.blew | B.fixed | C.sailed | D.happened |
10. A.found | B.brought | C.made | D.took |
11. A.complaining | B.thinking | C.discussing | D.talking |
12. A.while | B.where | C.when | D.since |
13. A.As | B.Although | C.Which | D.Whatever |
14. A.past | B.future | C.present | D.terrible |
15. A.ship | B.life | C.world | D.story |
16. A.However | B.Besides | C.Therefore | D.Instead |
17. A.guess | B.suppose | C.suggest | D.trust |
18. A.difficult | B.outgoing | C.positive | D.different |
19. A.attitude | B.means | C.method | D.way |
20. A.feels | B.does | C.gives | D.has |