第三题：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31-50各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Once there was a group of men — a young hot-blooded man and a big number of old folks, doing a timber (木料) job in a jungle.

This young man was very   31  . He always continued to work through his break time and   32  that those old folks were wasting time, having to  33  several times a day to drink and chat. As time went by, this young man noticed that  34  he worked through break time and hardly took a 35  , those old folks were chopping the same   36  of trees as he did and sometimes did more. It was as if they worked through the break time as he did. So he  37  to work harder the next day. Unfortunately the  38  were even worse.

One day, one of the old folks  39   him for a drink during their break time. That young man  40  and said that he had no  41  time! Then the old man smiled and said, “It is just a waste of effort to  42  chopping trees without  re-sharpening  your axe（斧子）.Sooner or later you will   43  or be so tired as you have spent too much  44    .”

Suddenly the young man  45  that actually during break times while those old folks were having a chat, they were   46  re-sharpening their axes at the same time! And that's how they could  47   faster than him, yet spending less time!

What we   48  is efficiency by making use of our skill and ability   49   . Only then can we have more time to do other things. Otherwise we will always keep saying ... I have no  50   !

31. A. weak       B. clever      C. hard-working     D. good-looking

32. A. admired    B. complained    C. reminded     D. predicted

33. A. plan        B. appear      C. work        D. break

34. A. even though    B. only if      C. because      D. unless

35. A. photo      B. rest         C. step       D. bath

36. A. weight     B. height       C. amount      D. price

37. A. failed      B. pretended    C. agreed      D. decided

38. A. marks     B. results     C. effects     D. conditions

39. A. invited      B. blamed     C. thanked      D. forgave

40. A. begged     B. argued     C. nodded       D. refused

41. A. wrong.      B. valuable    C. extra         D. exact

42. A. mind        B. avoid      C. practice       D. keep

43. A. speed up    B. give up    C. watch out     D. turn out

44. A. energy      B. money     C. life            D. skill

45. A. warned      B. expected    C. realized      D. announced 

46. A. also         B. hardly        C. seldom     D. never

47. A. talk       B. chop       C. walk      D. climb

48. A. abandon     B. introduce     C. need       D. teach

49. A. quickly      B. curiously     C. seriously      D. intelligently

50. A. time        B. tool        C. job         D. patience
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