A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about
36 in work and life. Offering his
37 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and
38 with a large pot of coffee and a
39 of cups---porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to
40 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “if you have
41 , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been
42 , leaving behind the plain and
43 ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the
44 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup
45 adds no quality to the coffee.
46 it is just more expensive and in some cases
47 hides what we drink.”
“
48 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup,
49 you consciously went for the best cups…. And then you began
50 each other’s cups.”
Now consider this:
51 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.
52 are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the
53 of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we
54 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups
55 you … enjoy the coffee instead.
| 小题1: | | A．stress | B．dream | C．sorrow | D．truth |
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| 小题2: | | A．friends | B．customers | C．fellows | D．guests |
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| 小题3: | | A．carried | B．returned | C．arrived | D．reached |
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| 小题4: | | A．kind | B．variety | C．sort | D．number |
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| 小题5: | | A．devote | B．expose | C．help | D．addicted |
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| 小题6: | | A．searched | B．witnessed | C．noticed | D．discovered |
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| 小题7: | | A．taken up | B．brought in | C．sold out | D．cut down |
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| 小题8: | | A．expensive | B．cheap | C．beautiful | D．usual |
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| 小题9: | | A．point | B．answer | C．source | D．result |
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| 小题10: | | A．by itself | B．on its own | C．for itself | D．itself |
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| 小题11: | | A．At no time | B．At times | C．In no case | D．In most cases |
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| 小题12: | | A．ever | B．even | C．never | D．hardly |
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| 小题13: | | A．What | B．That | C．Which | D．Whether |
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| 小题15: | | A．suspecting | B．liking | C．envying | D．eyeing |
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| 小题16: | | A．Love | B．Life | C．Future | D．Failure |
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| 小题18: | | A．quantity | B．style | C．quality | D．standard |
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| 小题19: | | A．have | B．hesitate | C．forget | D．fail |
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| 小题20: | | A．force | B．drive | C．puzzle | D．amaze |
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