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Aristotle was a great philosopher, and many of his writings and teachings have formed the way we think about philosophy today.
At eighteen, Aristotle went to Plato’s Academy1.(study) and stayed there for almost twenty2.(year). From there, Aristotle went to the island of Lesbos,3.he researched botany and zoology. After that, he went on to tutor Alexander the Great, as well as Ptolemy and Cassander. Perhaps the fact that he tutored several kings4.(be) the reason why he is still so famous today. However, Alexander the Great began to suspect Aristotle was making threats against his life.5.(eventual), after Alexander’s6.(die)，Aristotle7. (force) to flee and died of natural causes in Euboea.
Aristotle added much to the field of philosophy. He also made8.significant contribution to science while he was alive. Aristotle’s writings and philosophy have influenced such famous Christian thinkers9. Chaucer, Dante, and Thomas Aquinas. Furthermore, Friedrich Nietzsche took much of his political philosophy from Aristotle, and Ayn Rand looked up to him as well. With so many people10.(look) to Aristotle for philosophic cues（提示）,it is no wonder that his works have survived the test of time.
It was two years ago. That was a tough morning and I felt_________I stood by the patient’s doorway. I couldn’t see myself, but I knew my own_________: head down, shoulders slumped(下沉）and a lifeless expression. I knocked on the patient’s door and entered. “Good morning!” I said to the_________I felt my energy used up in the_______to remain cheerful. The tank was close to_________.
“How are you doing today?” The patient looked at me with eyes of_________She patted her_________and let me sit down. “What’s wrong, doctor?” I_________her in silence. She pressed on in a_________but loving way, just like Mom would. “Come on, tell me. How are you doing?”
A million thoughts__________into my mind. I needed to be stoic (坚忍的）and showed no signs of__________
However, I sat down beside her. “I’m really nervous and__________, to be honest.”
“Why’s that?” she asked with sincere concern. “I can__________.”
Think about my workday. There’s the__________of achieving the medical goals: diagnosis（诊断）,treatments and cures. There’s also the stress of my work__________: abundant multi-tasking and__________interruptions.
Now I wanted to open up to her. For a__________moment, I felt the burden being__________off my shoulders. We spoke heart to heart. She asked questions. I answered them. She wanted to__________what my day was like. I told her very honestly. We spoke for a long while. Finally she__________me and I thanked her deeply for showing concern about me.
1.A.annoyed B.excited C.surprised D.defeated
2.A.position B.appearance C.behavior D.picture
3.A.guard B.physician C.patient D.nurse
4.A.effort B.desire C.attempt D.need
5.A.shaking B.leaking C.full D.empty
6.A.envy B.concern C.curiosity D.regret
7.A.clothes B.floor C.bed D.leg
8.A.waited for B.pointed to C.stared at D.looked down upon
9.A.tight B.relaxed C.comfortable D.firm
10.A.crowded B.slipped C.jumped D.squeezed
11.A.anger B.weakness C.Sympathy D.loneliness
12.A.cautious B.determined C.unlucky D.anxious
13.A.succeed B.listen C.conclude D.recover
14.A.pressure B.reward C.request D.schedule
15.A.appointment B.plan C.environment D.equipment
16.A.frequent B.steady C.common D.regular
17.A.meaningful B.brief C.big D.valuable
18.A.thrown B.reduced C.lifted D.know
19.A.predict B.guess C.expect D.know
20.A.hugged B.praised C.saved D.protected
A person that’s enthusiastic, determined and prepared to hug life’s trials is a person we all want to be. If you want to be like that person then your first step is to always stay inspired. Taking the first step towards an inspired life is the most difficult part of the process, but after you take it you will never look back.1.He/She is a person who wakes up every day more inspired than the next. Inspiration will lead you anywhere you want to go. 2.
●Inspiration breeds(培育) more inspiration. After you get a taste of the inspired life you'll never want to turn back. Wake up tomorrow morning inspired and watch your life change.3.I’ll give you some names of people who have changed the path of history and I’ll let you determine if they were inspired. Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs,Mother Theresa.
●Inspiration leads to hard work. Hard work leads to success. Success will be much more difficult to attain if you care little about what you want to be successful in.
●4.Mark Zuckerberg was inspired by the potential of a great social network. Four English musicians were inspired to create great music thereby creating the Beatles. Socrates was inspired by his own curiosity and ended up creating Western Philosophy as we know it today.
●Inspiration and genius(天才)—one and the same.5.In fact, many who we consider geniuses today were nothing more than extremely inspired individuals.
A.The uninspired seldom change the world.
B.A genius is someone who was born intelligent.
C.Fear of failure will stop you from staying inspired.
D.Nothing great was ever created without inspiration.
E.You don't have to have an IQ of 150 to be considered a genius.
F.Here are four additional reasons why you should always stay inspired.
G.An inspired individual is someone who never backs away from a challenge.
While enjoying good incomes, physicians suffer from a lack of time. Between scheduled clinical work and being on call, it’s common to have only one full day off in seven. Not surprisingly, it’s far too easy to spend that entire day just trying to do the boring tasks for yourself and your family.
The good news, however, is that new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that many professionals can increase their happiness by using their incomes to buy back some of that lost time through the use of time-saving services such as housecleaners or online personal assistants.
Study authors Ashley Whillans and Elizabeth Dunn found that when people spend money on such services, happiness improves. Their findings suggest that “using money to buy time may provide benefits by serving as a buffer（缓冲器）against the harmful effects of time pressure on overall life satisfaction”.
Spending money on a big purchase, such as an expensive car, can feel good and serve as a reward for having worked so hard. Research has consistently shown, however, that the gains from such material purchases are short lived. Instead, buying back time and then using it to go after meaningful activities is more likely to result in long-term gains in well-being.
There are the obvious tasks that have been outsourced（外包）for decades，such as house cleaning or meal preparation. In my own physician coaching practice, it amazes me how many of my physician clients do not take full advantage of these classic opportunities to save time, particularly meal services. When your time is worth well over $100 to 200 an hour, how could you NOT pay another person far less than that to do the job better than you would do it yourself?
Regaining a couple of hours on your only day off can change your well-being. How different would you feel if you had a few more hours to spend quality time with other people, improve your health, or try a new hobby?
1.Which of the following is true according to this passage?
A.Physicians often do boring tasks for their family.
B.Time pressure often has effects on life satisfaction.
C.Physician clients never use time-saving services.
D.People all should regain time to change their well-being.
2.What will lead to long-term gains in well-being?
A.Meal preparation. B.Earning high incomes.
C.Buying expensive materials. D.Spending quality time with family.
3.What is the author?
A.A physician coach. B.A salesman.
C.A researcher. D.A reporter.
4.What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?
A.To persuade people to spend money wisely.
B.To introduce some ways to gain happiness.
C.To advise physicians to buy time for happiness.
D.To state physicians’ terrible working environment.
Children born in the early 21st century will likely never know a world without the Internet, television, and other forms of instant intellectual satisfaction. The average high school student in any developed nation has access to more information than some of the greatest minds in history, such as Socrates or Da Vinci, ever had in their lifetimes. Some critics of this phenomenon fear that instantaneous（瞬时的）access to all of this information has the potential to overload users, however. Instead of researching deeper into one particular subject, many people are now dabbling on(浅尝）the surface of many interests and subjects of study at the same time. Author Richard Foreman described those who have spread themselves thinly across a wide range of subjects as pancake people.
For many generations, scholars and artists tended to concentrate their energy on one particular subject. For William Shakespeare, that interest was literature; for Mozart, it was musical composition; and for Newton, physics. Visual artists were not expected to understand higher mathematics, nor were philosophers (哲学家）expected to study engineering. Without widespread access to libraries or the ability to spread their latest creations to the rest of the world instantly, many people worked hard in relative obscurity（冷门）to explore the depths of their chosen jobs or subjects of interest.
With the development of the Internet and other sources of information that can be accessed quickly and easily, many people attempt to gain at least a working knowledge of many different subjects. As a result, a new generation have essentially become the proverbial jacks of all trades, but masters of none. A linguist（语言学家）from the 18th may have studied Spanish or French until he or she could translate even the most complex literary works written in those languages, but modern pancake people only learn enough of the language to travel as a tourist. As long as the information necessary to perform a task or create a new work is at a person’s fingertips，there is always the risk of that person losing some intellectual curiosity.
1.What can we know from the first paragraph?
A.People nowadays have access to more information than before.
B.Interest is becoming more and more important in modern society.
C.Children will know nothing about the world without modern social media.
D.Students in developed nations know more than the greatest minds in history.
2.How does the author develop his argument in Paragraph 2?
A.By comparison. B.By example.
C.By classification. D.By cause and effect.
3.Pancake people refer to those who___________________.
A.are gifted in music, art or literature
B.are knowledgeable in different fields
C.know a working knowledge of many different subjects
D.tend to concentrate their energy on one particular subject
4.What’s the author’s attitude to pancake people?
A.Disapproving. B.Favorable.
C.Doubtful. D.Unconcerned.
When Dominick Cabalo noticed four years ago that his son Nicholas, then in Grade 4, was struggling to make new friends at school, he came up with a creative way to help him “break the ice”. The graphic artist from Glendale, Calif, started creating amazing drawings on his sons brown paper lunch bags.
From Captain America to Darth Vader to Kobe Bryant, Cabalo has drawn about 400 pictures of animals, superheroes, movie characters and pop culture icons (偶像）on his son’s lunch bags. The Grade 8 student told CTV News Channel on Wednesday that he had noticed the influence his father's artwork had on social life at school.
“It would encourage a conversation. If it was a movie, then we would talk about what happened or our favorite scenes,” Nicholas said. “People I don’t talk to would start talking to me about what my father has drawn on bags.”
Although Cabalo said he couldn’t see his son’s schoolmates’ reactions to his drawings first-hand, Nicholas would often let him know which ones were hits at school. “If I do something funny or draw something quite humorous, Nicholas will report back to me and say, ‘Oh yeah, they really liked this one,’”Cabalo said.
Cabalo said his son’s favorite drawings are the ones about superheroes. He explained that, every time a new superhero movie is released (上映）,he will make sure to include that character on a lunch bag. With so many lunch bags and superhero movie series, Cabalo admits there have been a few repeated characters over the years.
1.Why did Dominick Cabalo decide to create drawings on his son’s lunch bags?
A.To become famous. B.To show his talent.
C.To sell them and earn money. D.To help his son make friends.
2.The underlined word “hits” in Paragraph 4 probably refers to drawings that__________.
A.are popular with Nicholas's classmates
B.are about the latest superhero movies
C.express deep thoughts and feelings
D.influence Nicholas's classmates greatly
3.What kind of drawings did Nicholas like most?
A.Animals. B.Superheroes.
C.Movie characters. D.Pop culture icons.
4.What would be the best title of the text?
A.A Son Learns to Make Friends B.A Son Is Influenced by His Dad
C.A Dad Creates Drawings on Lunch Bags D.A Dad's Artwork on Lunch Bags Helps His Son
