阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A group of graduates, successful in their
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complain about stress in work and life．
Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of 41 --- porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain looking and 42 , some delicate (精致的) and expensive---telling them to 43 themselves to the coffee．
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you 44 , all the nice looking expensive cups were 45 , leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is 46 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 47 of your problems and stress．It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. 48 all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the 49 cups. And then you began 50 each other’s cups．
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and 51 in society are the cups．They are just tools to hold and 52 life, and the type of cup we have does not change the 53 of life we live．Sometimes, by 54 only on the cup, we fail to 55 the coffee.
41. A. tools B. materials C. cups D. gifts
42. A. cheap B. simple C. beautiful D. valuable
43. A. invite B. allow C. help D. adapt
44. A. noticed B. admitted C. accepted D. relaxed
45. A. sold out B. taken up C. broken D. abandoned
46. A. normal B. unfair C. selfish D. painful
47. A. way B. value C. judgment D. source
48. A. Why B. Although C. Unless D. What
A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complain about stress in work and life．
Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of 41 --- porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain looking and 42 , some delicate (精致的) and expensive---telling them to 43 themselves to the coffee．
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you 44 , all the nice looking expensive cups were 45 , leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is 46 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 47 of your problems and stress．It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. 48 all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the 49 cups. And then you began 50 each other’s cups．
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and 51 in society are the cups．They are just tools to hold and 52 life, and the type of cup we have does not change the 53 of life we live．Sometimes, by 54 only on the cup, we fail to 55 the coffee.
41. A. tools B. materials C. cups D. gifts
42. A. cheap B. simple C. beautiful D. valuable
43. A. invite B. allow C. help D. adapt
44. A. noticed B. admitted C. accepted D. relaxed
45. A. sold out B. taken up C. broken D. abandoned
46. A. normal B. unfair C. selfish D. painful
47. A. way B. value C. judgment D. source
48. A. Why B. Although C. Unless D. What
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