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• Read the article below about success in the business world. • Choose the best word to fill in each gap. • For each question 21
• Read the article below about success in the business world. • Choose the best word to fill in each gap. • For each question 21
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2010-01-28
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• Read the article below about success in the business world.
• Choose the best word to fill in each gap.
• For each question 21-30, mark one letter A, B, C or D.
According to certain beer commercials, the contemporary version of success consists in moving up to a premium brand that costs a dime or so more per bottle. Credit-card companies would have you (21) success inheres in owning their particular piece of plastic.
Under the flag of success, modern-style, liberal arts colleges are withering (22) business schools are burgeoning... and yet even business schools are having an increasingly hard time finding faculty members, because teaching isn’t (23) "successful" enough. Amid a broad consensus that there is a glut of lawyers and an epidemic of strangling litigation, record numbers of young people continue to flock to law school (24) , for the individual practitioner, a law degree is still considered a safe ticket.
Many, by external standards, will be "successes". Yet there is a deadening and dangerous flaw in their philosophy: It has little room, little sympathy and less respect for the noble failure, for the person who (25) past the limits, who aims gloriously high and falls unashamedly (26) .
That sort of ambition doesn’t have much place in a world where success is proved by worldly reward (27) by accomplishment itself. That sort of ambition is increasingly thought of as the domain of irredeemable eccentrics, of people who haven’t quite caught on—and there is great social pressure not to be one of them.
The irony is that today’s success-chasers seem obsessed with the idea of not settling. Yet in doggedly (28) the rather brittle species of success now in fashion, they are restricting themselves to a chokingly narrow swath of turf along the entire (29) of human possibilities. Does it ever (30) to them that, frequently, success is what people settle for when they can’t think of something noble enough to be worth tailing at?
选项
A、because
B、though
C、if
D、whether
答案
A
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