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.
7（）
A.sensible
B.faulty
C.cool
D.appreciated
参考答案：C
解析：
此题考查上下文语句理解的一致性。上文说，当今的青年人往往不是乐观地看世界，“他们把悲观看成很______”，下文展开具体谈他们是如何做的：花时间讨论怎么失败的，将自己囚在悲观的看法中，而拒绝去嗅闻玫瑰的花香。根据连贯一致性原则，空白处应该填入一个与上文中trend在意思上相匹配的词。[C]cool“很酷”正合句意，因为符合趋势潮流的做法通常被认为是很酷。[A]sensible“通情达理的，明智的”，[D]appreciated“受到欣赏的”均与下文无法衔接；[B]faulty“错误的”与上文在逻辑意义上相反。