Question

     Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it  36  . Albert Einstein was  37  to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don't have the work relative to  38  . I should give up on it and settle for something else.”  39  , he wrote the two most famous papers while  40  as a patent（專利）office worker. After the   41  , there was not any major  42  in the world that would not have wanted him to work for them.

     If you want to work as an artist and are  43  as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who  44  one day to become an artist. That puts the  45  you love somewhere Off in the distant future. Rather, think yourself as  46  , supporting yourself by waiting tables and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is  47  to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That  48  plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft (手藝)  in the  49  hours.

     While seeking the work you love,   50  helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be  51  the ideas Of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened  52  the possibilities, you can make a final  53  and select the work you love as your own.

     Doing the work you love  54  that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the  55 . It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.

36.A.full-fime	B. hard	C. easily	D. part-time
37.A.unable	B. able	C. unwilling	D. anxious
38.A.science	B. maths	C. physics	D. money
39.A.So	B. Instead	C. Therefore	D. And
40.A.employed	B. regarded	C. worked	D. recognized
41.A. inventions	B. discoveries	C. successes	D. papers
42.A. city	B. factory	C. university	D. company
43.A.known	B. making a living	C. leading a life	D. chosen
44.A.thinks	B. imagines	C. hopes	D. decides
45.A.man	B. woman	C. person	D. work
46.A. an artist	B. a waiter	C. a waitress	D. a painter
47.A.impossible	B. possible	C. important	D. lucky
48.A.sends	B. spares	C. leaves	D. takes
49.A.on	B. office	C. business	D. off
50.A.it	B. which	C. that	D. this
51.A. interested in	B. devoted to	C. limited to	D. troubled by
52.A.no	B. all	C. few	D. both
53.A.decision	B. plan	C. conclusion	D. judge
54.A.suggests	B. requires	C. insists	D. encourages
55.A.necessary	B. practical	C. careful	D. honest

Answer 1

36.D。聯系全句，可知作者在此談論盡早做自己喜歡做的工作的必要性。A項有一定干擾性，從第二段作者所舉的例子(一個想成為藝術家的人)我們可以看出，作者認為無論是兼職，還是不拿報酬做自己喜歡的工作都是有必要的。

37.A。從下文的“Well，I just don’t have the work relative to  38   (physics)．I should give up on it ...”得知，Albert Einstein起初沒有得到做物理教授的工作。

38.C。relative to在這里是“與……有關”的意思。Einstein沒能找到做物理教授的工作，他覺得自己不適合物理方面的工作。

39.B。instead在這里相當于instead of getting a job as a physics professor。

40.A。C項有一定干擾性，while employed等于while he was employed。在時間狀語從句或條件狀語從句中，從句的主語如果與主句主語一致，且謂語含有動詞be，可以省略主語和動詞be。C項顯然不符合這一規則。

41.A。the inventions指Einstein的兩項理論的發明。

42.C。從前文我們得知，Einstein起初想做物理教授，沒有哪個大學想要他。現在他出名了，沒有哪所重點大學不想要他。

43.B。從后文“…，supporting(養活) yourself by waiting tables"可知，以藝術為自己的工作時，做飯店服務員只是為了掙錢養活自己。

44.C。who在這里代表a waiter,本句的意思是“不要把自己看成一個有一天能成為藝術家的飯店服務員。”顯然作者認為，你應該把自己看成藝術家，而不是服務員。

45.D。that在這里指“認為自己是一個有一天能成為藝術家的服務員”；work指“成為藝術家”，本句的意思是“那只能讓你喜歡的工作(成為藝術家)留在遙遠的將來。”

46.A。rather在這里表示否定，相當于instead。注意本句的結構：supporting yourself by waiting tables為狀語，think yourself as an artist… and paint，or draw為句子的主要部分，and前后的動詞為順接，因此A項為最佳選項。

47.B。“一星期做24小時的服務員也許能掙到生存的薪水。”possible在這里表示“可能性”。其它選項不合題意。

48.C。“一星期只做24小時服務員，那就會給自己留下足夠的時間投身于培訓或提高手藝。”

49.D。off在這里用作形容詞，意思是“其余的”。整個第二段以“working as an artist，while supporting yourself by waiting tables”為例說明作者開頭所提出的"Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible，even if you don’t get paid for it, or you can only work at it part-time.”。

50.A。分析本句結構是選對此空的關鍵。while seeking the work you love是時間狀語從句，you love即that you love，作定語修飾work,因此it helps to…為主句。it為形式主語，真正的主語是不定式，help在這里是“有幫助，起作用”的意思。

51.C。從下一句“Having opened  52  (all) the possibilities．you can make a final  53  (decision) and select the work you love as your own．”可知作者在此認為你不應該把自己局限到(1imited to)你應該是什么或已成為什么的觀念上。

52.B。從空后的you can make a final  53  (decision)得此答案。

53.A。先是打開所有的可能，然后作出最終決定，最后選出最喜歡的。

54.B。“做你所喜歡的工作要求你把想象和實際平等對待。”

55.B。從后文我們得知the imaginative指big dreams，而the practical指all the little details。