Wherever you go, there you are. This is the title of a fantastic book by JonKabat Zinn. Often when going through a difficult time, some think about making a major change, a change of a job or residence. Will this really help? Of course if you are being abused or stressed, such action may work. But for the most part, if we change nothing about ourselves, we merely take what is inside of us wherever we wander.
In therapy(心理疗法), I have seen individuals who have literally taken geographic treatment, making a major change out of their city or state. What was most discovered was that at first, the change was fun and exciting. But after a period of time, after the “newness” wore off they still saw people as they had seen them before. If they felt taken advantage of, they still felt that way. If they had low self-esteem, they felt the same way.
Is there an answer to this problem? Work on yourself first. In 12-step programs, we say no major changes for a year. That is because people need to see who they really are without their addiction. And it takes about a year to give up your system and to find out who you really are emotionally.
Taking some time to clearly focus and see what the real issues are is very important. A quick change without any forethought is often merely an escape from reality.
And remember, happiness is an inside job.
1.According to the author, you can change your job if _________________.
A. you are going through difficult times
B. you are ill-treated or stressed
C. you don’t want to change yourself
D. you want to live a new life
2.By saying “happiness is an inside job”, the author really means that ___________.
A. happiness remains inside wherever you go
B. you can’t find happiness even if you change your job or residence
C. you can't find happiness unless you change the inside of yourself
D. giving up your addiction can lead to happiness
3.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Work on Yourself First
B. Don’t Change Your Job or Residence in a Hurry
C. Don’t Escape From Reality
D. Join in 12-step Programs and Give up Your System
How do you feel after you've stayed up late to finish schoolwork? Or the day after a slumber party? Scientists now say that your answers to these questions may depend on your genes.
Genes are stretches of DNA that work like an instruction manual for our cells. Genes tell our bodies and brains what to do. People have about 40,000 genes, and each gene can have different forms. So, for example, certain forms of some genes make your eyes blue. Other versions of those genes make your eyes brown.
In a similar way, new research suggests that a gene called period3 affects how well you function without sleep. The discovery adds to older evidence that period3 helps determine whether you like to stay up late or get up early.
The period3 gene comes in two forms: short and long. Everyone has two copies of the gene. So, you may have two longs, two shorts, or one of each. Your particular combination depends on what your parents passed on to you.
Scientists from the University of Surrey in England studied 24 people who had either two short or two long copies of period3. Study participants had to stay awake for 40 hours straight. Then, they took tests that measured how quickly they pushed a button when numbers flashed on a screen and how well they could remember lists of numbers.
Results showed that the people with the short form of period3 performed much better on these tests than the people with the long form did. In both groups, people performed worst in the early morning. That's the time when truck drivers and other night-shift workers say they have the most trouble concentrating.
After the first round of experiments, participants were finally allowed to sleep. People in the group that performed well on the tests took about 18 minutes to nod off.
People with the long period3 gene, by contrast, fell asleep in just 8 minutes. They also spent more time in deep sleep. That suggests that people with the long form of the gene need more and deeper sleep to keep their brains working at top form.
1.We can know from the passage that genes can not ________.
A. tell our bodies and brains what to do
B. make our eyes blue or brown
C. decide how well you work without sleep
D. ensure whether you’re good at driving
2.Which of the following statements about the period3 is wrong?
A. It affects whether you like to stay up late or get up early.
B. It comes in two forms: short and long.
C. One has either two longs or two shorts of it.
D. Your parents determine what particular combination you have.
3.People with the short form of period3__________.
A. need to go to bed early and get up early
B. can work better than the people with long form of period3 without sleep
C. take less time to fall asleep after they stay up late
D. need more and deeper sleep to keep their brains working at top form
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The Period3 Gene B. The Function of Genes
C. Wake up, Sleepy Gene D. Stay up Late or Get up Early?
“I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back.” Lucien Lawrence’s letter to Father Christmas, written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched everyone’s heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky. When those we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father there too, either in your mind or heart. I find that my parents, who died years ago, still linger (留连) in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I’m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself that I couldn’t wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all my mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!” I haven’t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence has been to face the aggressors, and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It’s a serious thought, which gives me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet “Deliver my soul from the sword and my darling from the power of the dog.” Yet I know death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live together, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I’m sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.
1.According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph ___________.
A. puts forward the subject of the text
B. shows the author’s pity on the kid
C. serves as an introduction to the discussion
D. makes a clear statement of the author’s views
2.In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us____________.
A. how much he misses his parents now
B. why his parents often appear in his dream
C. when Lucien will get over all his sadness
D. how proud he was when he succeeded in life
3.What feeling did the author’s mother express in her reply?
A. Proud. B. Happy. C. Disappointed. D. Worried.
4.In the author’s opinion, the value of a person’s life is _____________.
A. to leave a precious memory to the people related
B. to have a high sense of duty to the whole society
C. to care what others will remember and treasure
D. to share happiness and sadness with his family
5.What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?
A. Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.
B. Advise parents stay with their children safely at home.
C. Spend every day meaningfully in memory of death.
D. Try to keep violence and murder far away from society.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Start doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only ____1____ it part-time. Albert Einstein was ____2____to get a job as a physics professor at the beginning. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don’t have the work relative to ____3____. I should give up on it and settle for something else.” ____4____, he wrote the two most famous papers while ____5____ as a patent (专利) office worker. After the ____6____ there were not any major____7____ in the world that would not have wanted him to work for them.
If you want to work as an artist but you are ____8____ as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who ____9____ one day to become an artist. Seeing yourself as a waiter puts the ____10____ you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, ____11____ yourself as an artist, supporting yourself by waiting on tables, or draw as much as you can. It is ____12____ to earn a living as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That ____13____ plenty of time which you can devote to training or developing your craft(手艺) in the ____14____hours.
While you are seeking the work you love, ____15____ helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be ____16____ the ideas of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened____17____ the possibilities, you can make a final decision and ____18____ the work you love as your own.
Doing the work you love ____19____ that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the practical. It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams____20____.
1.A. work for B. work with C. work out D. work at
2.A. unable B. able C. unwilling D. anxious
3.A. science B. maths C. physics D. money
4.A. So B. Instead C. Therefore D. And
5.A. employed B. acted C. treated D. recognized
6.A. discoveries B. consequences C. solutions D. instructions
7.A. cities B. factories C. universities D. companies
8.A. known B. making a living C. leading a life D. chosen
9.A. considers B. imagines C. hopes D. decides
10.A. man B. woman C. person D. work
11.A. think B. believe C. regard D. help
12.A. impossible B. possible C. important D. lucky
13.A. sends B. gets C. leaves D. takes
14.A. on B. office C. business D. off
15.A. it B. which C. that D. this
16.A. interested in B. devoted to C. limited to D. troubled by
17.A. no B. all C. few D. both
18.A. select B. plan C. conclude D. judge
19.A. suggests B. requires C. insists D. encourages
20.A. achieve B. come true C. come out D. realize
--- Do you know the reason _________ pilots turn off the plane’s lights before taking off?
---The practice is for the passengers to adjust to the dark _________ an emergency.
A. why; for fear that B. for which; in case of
C. how; for fear of D. that; in case
---Sir, you are fined for speeding. Please sign here.
---Fined? Speeding? ___________
A. Are you all right?
B. I don't think I am.
C. You can't be serious.
D. It doesn't matter.
