Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised. “Barbara be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience,” How right they were!
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson．It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the things get tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” When others shout, “No, you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara Mclintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her experiments.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel Ulman once wrote, “Years wrinkly the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia Mellratl retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father, long ago, told me，I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.”
We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-been”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after“what-can-be”．We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses-finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.
1．What is the passage mainly talking about?
A．Enthusiasm is more important than experience.
B．Enthusiasm can give people more success and fame.
C．Enthusiastic people will never get old.
D．Enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life.
2．We can inter than enthusiasm is more important for a person especially when .
A．he is in trouble B．he is getting old
C．he can do what he love D．he has succeeded
3．The author mentions Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that .
A．enthusiasm can make people feel young
B．music can arouse people’s enthusiasm
C．enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed
D．enthusiasm can keep people healthy
4． How many examples are referred in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?
A．Three B．Four C．Five D．Six
5．Which proverb may the writer agree with according to the last paragraph?
A．A good beginning makes a good ending.
B．Don’t cry over the spoiled milk.
C．Love me, love my dog.
D．All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.