完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。We often talk a

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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(答案→)B 解析：【解题导语】 本文陈述了一个普遍存在的观念：人们常常不能正确认识和对待别人对自己的看法，产生消极、悲观的自我偏见。作者结合自身经历，分析这种偏见产生的原因，告诉读者：我们并没有什么天生的缺陷，能做好自己想做的任何事。【小题1】B。put off推迟。我总是把事情推后。【小题1】C。你也许已经用他们来描述你自己（yourself）。【小题1】D。根据后面for years和often from as far back as childhood，选repeated。【小题1】B。常常从遥远的童年就开始。【小题1】A。根据上文和下文But they can set low expectations for us，待选词的意思是“依据”，故选A。【小题1】C。 affect“影响”某人的发展。故选C。【小题1】A。从搭配上只能填A【小题1】B。从前面to work on cars应填tools，表示围着工具转。【小题1】D。however与上文构成转折关系，故选D。【小题1】C。take down写下，同write down，put down。【小题1】C。与前面提到的positive构成对比关系。【小题1】A。experience表示生活经历。【小题1】B。由后文的you can’t solve simple mechanical problems可知他在军事测试中的很差的表现。【小题1】D。why为什么。为什么你能解决复杂的数学问题【小题1】A。complex复杂的。与后面的simple构成对比关系。【小题1】C。suffer from患有遗传性缺陷(疾病)。【小题1】A。live out实现(已计划或想做的事)，根据上面所提到的选believe是表示“(我自己宁愿去)相信”。【小题1】B。根据前后文在这里表示“使我的信念根深蒂固”之意。【小题1】D。On the contrary相反的。相反,如果我们不对待自己,好像我们是无法治愈的遗传缺陷。【小题1】A。anything任何事情。我们几乎可以做得很好我们选择的任何事情。

对的，就是这个意思