Optimism is the art of always seeing the glass half full (1) half empty, finding something positive in even the most (2) of situations and last but not least the ability to expect the best even if the chances are (3) . It enables you to try new things, deal with failure as a learning experience (4) a stopping point. In general optimism gives you a reason to live. The world would be a better place if it was full of optimism, (5) unfortunately the trend in today’s youth is (6) the opposite way. Today it is (7) to be pessimistic. One could spend hours discussing how we arrived at this point, (8) our youth refuses to smell the roses and instead prefers to (9) themselves on their own pessimistic (10) .
Optimism is not an (11) gift but rather a learned behavior (12) . Like most behaviors optimism is best learned by watching examples, (13) you. The first step in creating a generation of people with a positive outlook on life, is to (14) life on the bright side yourself. (15) it would be wrong to (16) your child from all negativity, it is important that you are not the (17) of doubts and worries. Finding something positive in a negative situation needs to be (18) Show how to make the best of things by always (19) the positive, by encouraging your child after a(n) (20) and by explaining over and over that failure is just a part of progress.
4（）
A.via
B.versus
C.over
D.beyond
参考答案：B
解析：
读懂句子，我们发现空白两边表达的是对立的概念，即“学习”还是“停止”，把握了这一点，就不难选择B项为答案。和其他选项一样，versus是一个介词，表示“对抗，与……相对”的意思，如表示比赛的Spain versus England“西班牙队对英国队”，又如：They argued about traveling by train versus traveling by plane.“他们争沦乘火车旅行好还是坐飞机旅行好。”在题句中versus应该理解为“……而不是”，即“把失败当成学习的过程而不是止步点”。[A]via表示“经由。通过”，如：We went from London to Washington via New York. “我们从伦敦经纽约到华盛顿。”We could send the letter via airmail.“我们可以通过空邮寄信。”[C]over和[D]beyond的意思考生都很熟悉，很明显，它们都是干扰项。