Question

【題目】 We are all encouraged to work hard and succeed in life. But failure is still a common part of everyone’s lives. 【1】If you visit the Museum of Failure in Shanghai, you might change your mind.

Samuel West, a Swedish psychologist, founded the museum. The museum displays more than 100 failed products【2】For example, in 1993, Apple released the Newton MessagePad which could be used to take electronic notes by hand. But its price was so high that few people wanted to buy it. Apple stopped making it in 1997. Coca-cola once developed a coffee-flavored soda in 2006. 【3】

West said the failed products were not displayed to make fun of these companies. He thinks success stories are all similar. He is tired of reading and hearing the same boring stories. As Albert Einstein once said, A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

【4】There are reasons for this. "The best companies are those that encourage failure, embrace out-of-the-box thinking, and allow employees to make mistakes and see what happens,” Simon Casuto wrote for Forbes.

【5】The key is whether or not you can learn from your mistakes.

A.It seems that failure isn't always a bad thing.

B.This idea has been welcomed by many big companies.

C.Perhaps you are afraid of failure, or even think it's shameful to fail.

D.Some of them were made by the most famous and successful companies in the world.

E.The company wanted to catch up with people's growing love for coffee, but the product was taken off the market in 2008.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】E

【4】B

【5】A

【解析】

失敗仍然是每個人生活中常見的一部分。一位瑞典心理學(xué)家在上海創(chuàng)建了失敗博物館，展出這些失敗的產(chǎn)品不是為了取笑這些公司而是鼓勵人們嘗試失敗，跳出定勢思維，失敗并不總是壞事，關(guān)鍵是你能否從錯誤中吸取教訓(xùn)。

【1】根據(jù)下文“If you visit the Museum of Failure in Shanghai, you might change your mind”推斷空格指人們有可能害怕失敗，但參觀失敗博物館也許會轉(zhuǎn)變想法；故選C。

【2】上文“The museum displays more than 100 failed products”講述博物館展出100多件的失敗的產(chǎn)品；根據(jù)下文“For example, in 1993, Apple released…”推斷空格進(jìn)一步舉例闡述失敗產(chǎn)品，故選D。

【3】由上文可知，本段是講述產(chǎn)品失敗的例子；上文“Coca-cola once developed a coffee-flavored soda in 2006”由此推斷空格說明可口可樂公司研發(fā)這個產(chǎn)品失��；故選E。

【4】空格在段首，是段落的主旨句；上文愛恩斯坦的話一個從不犯錯誤的人，一定從來沒有嘗試過任何新鮮事物。根據(jù)下文陳述一些公司鼓勵失敗，跳出定勢思維，允許員工失敗發(fā)現(xiàn)情況，由此推斷空格指愛恩斯坦的這種想法在一些大公司很受歡迎；故選B。

【5】下文“The key is whether or not you can learn from your mistakes”，根據(jù)文句表達(dá)的邏輯關(guān)系，推斷空格指失敗不總是一件壞事，關(guān)鍵是你能否從錯誤中吸取教訓(xùn)；故選A。