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1、2021年职称英语综合类A级2021职称英语综合A级：概括大意练习及答案(1)概括大意与完成句子题阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：（1）第14题 要求从所给的6个选项中为第25段每段选择1个正确的小标题；（2）第58题 要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。Even 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,

2、take a photograph, watch TV, search the Web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cell-phone （手机）.The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze （错综复杂） of wrong turns.2 We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edisons succes

3、s in heating a thin line to white-hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US.He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of mon 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 downt

4、own Manhattan, even though only one of the si_ power plants in his design worked when he turned it on, on September 4, 1882.3 Many of lifes failures, the supreme innovator said, are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Before that magical moment in October 187

5、9, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light, but in only two cases did his e_periments work.4 No one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it.Mark Gumz, the head of the camera maker Olympus America Inc, attributes some of the panys successes in technology

6、to understanding failure.His popular phrase is: You only fail when you quit.5 Over two centuries, the most mon quality of the innovators has 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 br

7、oke 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 from the repair shop.Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one pany and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car.6 Failure is harde

8、r to bear in todays open, accelerated world.Hardly any innovation works the first time.But an impatient society and the media want instant success.When American music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time, a critic said nastily that the only difference between Geffen Records （Geffens pa

9、ny） 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 so many hits （成功的作品） he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic all to himself.1 Paragraph 2.2 Paragraph 3 .3 Paragraph 4 .4 Paragraph 5.A Importance of lea

10、rning from failureB Quality shared by most innovatorsC Edisons innovationD Edisons ment on failureE Contributions made by innovatorsF Miseries endured by innovators5 People often didnt realize how close they were to success when.6 Before Henry Ford eventually developed the Model T car,.7 Walt Disney was once so poor that .8 The media demand that .A he developed 3,000 theoriesB he couldnt afford to buy a pair of shoesC he found himself an unsuccessful manD they quittedE an innovation should work immediatelyF failure is the mother of success【参考答案】1.C 2.D 3.A 4.B5.D 6.C 7.B 8.E第 5 页 共 5 页