The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sharing my love of music, didn’t _
_36__ it as a profession. My grandfather, having taught music for years at college and, though much _
_37__, earned merely enough to support his family. As a result of this
_38___in the family, I went to college -----quite
__39__, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other
_40___. Before my graduation from Columbia, I felt
_41___my duty to leave college and take a job. Aside from the satisfaction of being able to
___42__the family, money is all I got out of it. My only ambition was to save enough to
_43___ the job and go to Europe to study _
_44___. I used to get up at dawn to practice
_45__ I left for “downtown “to work. . I continued to make money, and
_46__, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to _
__47_.
The situation of my family improved, and my help was
_48___necessary, so I resigned from my _
_49__and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for _
50___. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and
_51___every minute of it. I was a _
52__man and I was doing what I_
_53__ to do and what I was meant to do. If I had stayed in business, I might be a quite wealthy man today, _
_54__ I wouldn’t have made a success of living . I would have
_55__all those that money can never buy.
Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high price on it.
| 小题1: | | A．receive | B．accept | C．refuse | D．keep |
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| 小题2: | | A．respected | B．hated | C．doubted | D．scolded |
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| 小题3: | | A．excuse | B．chance | C．promise | D．example |
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| 小题4: | | A．happily | B．sadly | C．hopelessly | D．nervously |
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| 小题5: | | A．interests | B．pities | C．experiments | D．problems |
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| 小题7: | | A．question | B．help | C．warn | D．visit |
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| 小题8: | | A．give up | B．give in | C．go on | D．throw away |
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| 小题9: | | A．computer | B．law | C．history | D．music |
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| 小题10: | | A．after | B．in case | C．before | D．the moment |
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| 小题11: | | A．firstly | B．finally | C．generally | D．lately |
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| 小题12: | | A．go back | B．go home | C．go abroad | D．go down |
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| 小题13: | | A．no longer | B．of course | C．in fact | D．much too |
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| 小题14: | | A．position | B．college | C．home | D．friends |
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| 小题15: | | A．Asia | B．Europe | C．Africa | D．North America |
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| 小题16: | | A．wasted | B．lost | C．forgot | D．enjoyed |
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| 小题17: | | A．native | B．free | C．wise | D．weak |
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| 小题18: | | A．repeated | B．offered | C．loved | D．signed |
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| 小题20: | | A．missed | B．gained | C．achieved | D．won |
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