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1、2022年职称英语考试综合类A级概括大意习题2Even Intelligent People Can Fail1 The striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed.Turn on a light，take a photograph，watch TV，search the web，jet across the Pacific Ocean，talk on a cellphone(手机).The innovators who left us
2、 these things had to find the way to success through a maze(错综困难)of wrong tarns.2 we have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edisons success in heating a thin line to white.hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey，US.He did mat on October 22.1879.and followed up
3、 a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight(点亮着的)in an airless space for 45 hours.Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan，even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he tamed it on，on September 4，1882.3 Many of 1i
4、fes failures.the supreme innovator said.are people who did not realize how close they were to Success when they gave upBefore that magical moment in October 1879. Edison had worked out no fewer than 3，000 theories about electric light，but in only two cases did his experiments work.4 No one likes fai
5、lure.but the smart innovators 1earn from it Mark Gumz,the head of the camera maker Olympus America Inc，attributes some of the companys successes in technology to understanding failure.His popular phrase is：Y0n only fail when you quit.5 Over two centuries.the most common quality of the innovators has
6、 been persistence That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep up what they were doing.Walt Disney,the founder of Disneyland，was so broke after a succession of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the US$1.50 to get his shoes
7、from me repair shop Pioneering car maker Henry F0rd failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car.6 Failure is harder to bear in todays open.accelerated world.Hardly any innovation works the first time.But an impatient society and the media want instant su
8、ccess.When American music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time.a critic said nastily that the only difference between Geffen Records(Geffens company)and the Titanic(the ship that went down) was that the Titanic had better music Actually，it wasnt.After four years of losses，Geffen had 80
9、 many hits(胜利的作品)he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic an to himself.23. Paragraph 2.24. Paragraph 3.25. Paragraph 4.26. Paragraph 5.AImportance of Learning from FailureBQuality Shared by Most InnovatorsCEdisons InnovationDEdisons Comment on FailureEContributions Made by InnovatorsFMiseries E
10、ndured by Innovators27People often didnt realize how close they were to success when.28Before Henry Ford eventually developed the Model T car,.29Walt Disney was once so poor that.30The media demand that.Ahe developed 3,000 theoriesBhe couldnt afford to buy a pair of shoesChe found himself an unsucce
11、ssful manDthey quittedEan innovation should work immediatelyFfailure is the mother of success答案:23 c 本文的标题是：即使是聪慧人也会失败。其次和第三段都跟Edison干脆相关。 其次段描述的是他的独创创建。24 D 本段是Edison对失败的看法。第一句话的意思是：生活中的很多失败是半途而废，这些人不知道其实他们放弃时离胜利已是近在咫尺了。25 A 本段的第一句话是这么说的：没有人喜爱失败，但是聪慧的独创家会从中吸取教训h留意：一个段落的第一句话经常是主题句。26 B 本段的第一句话是这么说的：
12、两个世纪来，独创家表现出的一个共同品质是弃而不舍。27 D 本题是依据第三段的第一句话设计的。quit和give up都有放弃的意思。He has given up smoking.他戒烟了。.He has quitted smoking.他戒烟了。28 c 本题是依据第五段的最终一句话设计的。该句说到了Henry Ford本人的早年生涯并不胜利。本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第4页 共4页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页第 4 页 共 4 页
