上海市各区2015届初三英语一模试题汇编:回答问题
employer came to see the house, he handed the front door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."
What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.
So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted (不专注的) way, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized that, we would have done it differently.
It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived with dignity (尊严).
The sentence on the wall reads, "Life is a do-it-yourself project." Who could say it more clearly? Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices you make today.
88. The old carpenter lived quite a rich life with his wife and children, didn't he?
__________________________________________________________________________. 89. Why did the old carpenter want to retire?
__________________________________________________________________________. 90. What did the old carpenter's employer ask him to do before he retired?
__________________________________________________________________________. 91. How did the carpenter do the job his employer asked him to do?
__________________________________________________________________________. 92. How did the carpenter feel when he realized that the last house he built was his home?
__________________________________________________________________________. 93. What does the sentence on the wall mean?
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Keys: 88. No, he didn’t.
89. Because he wanted to live a more relaxing life with his wife and children.
90. The employer ask ed him to build just one more house.
91. He turned to bad workmanship and used poor materials. / Lazily. / Badly.
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