How to improve our life? Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say，“my destiny(命运). I cannot change it. ”
Of course not! You don't have to suffer needlessly. Your life depends on you, not on any other external(外部的) factor.
I know a woman who says she just accepts what life gives her because she has done everything she can to improve it. Guess what her lifestyle is. She wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes back home, relaxes, chats with people, watches TV, and then goes to sleep. Next day, the same routine cycle follows.
Huh! Is this what she calls “doing her best”？ She believes she has tried her best and just accepts for her heart that this is the life that has been intended for her, and that her luck can only change if God wills it. She hasn't realized that we have to do our share of making the effort to live the life of our dreams.
Remember that you harvest what you sow. You have to get off the sofa, get your eyes off the TV screen, get your hands off the phone(unless it contributes to your success), and get your mind and body to work! Don't expect your luck to change, unless you do something about it. If something goes wrong, don't just regard it as a temporary setback; instead, learn your lesson, make the most of the situation, and do something to solve the problem. It's not enough to think positively; you also have to act positively.
If someone's life is in trouble, do you just hope and pray that things will turn out fine? Of course not! You get to do anything you can to save the person. So it is with your own life. It is not enough to hope for the best, but you have to do your best. In other words, don't just stand(or sit) there, do something to improve your life.
1.According to the woman mentioned in Para. 3, her life ________.
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A．doesn't need improving |
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B．couldn't be improved |
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C．will be better some day |
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D．will be worse in the future |
2.What does the author think of the woman's life?
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A．Passive. |
B．Positive. |
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C．Colorful. |
D．Boring. |
3.Which of the following statements is the author's opinion?
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A．Your temporary problem is not discouraging. |
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B．Your luck can be changed by your efforts. |
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C．You can only achieve success when God wills it. |
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D．You should treat yourself in the way you treat friends. |
4.In Para. 5, the author emphasized the importance of ________.
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A．hope for the best |
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B．intention to succeed |
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C．positive thinking |
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D．positive action |
Early one morning the subinspector at a station at the other end of the town rang me. An elephant was damaging the town. Would I please come and do something about it?
I did not know what I could do, but I got onto a horse and started out. I took my gun, maybe too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might scare him. Various local people stopped me on the way and told me about the elephant's doings.
It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one. It had been chained up but last night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its owner, had set out to run after it, but had taken the wrong direction. He was now twelve hours' journey away, and in the morning the elephant had suddenly appeared in the town. It had already destroyed somebody's bamboo hut (棚屋), killed a cow and turned over fruitstalls.
I came round the hut and saw a man's dead body sprawling in the mud. He was an Indian, and he could not have been dead many minutes. The people said that the elephant caught him with its trunk, put its foot on his back and grounded him into the earth. This was the rainy season and he was lying on his stomach in the soft mud, the__peacebreaker standing beside, looking innocent.
As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds. Then I fired. That was a shot that did for him.
You could see the pain of it knock the last strength from his legs. But in falling he seemed for a moment to rise, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree. He trumpeted, for the first and only time. And then down he came, with a crash that shook the ground.
1.Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE?
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A．He was an Indian. |
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B．He knew elephants well. |
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C．He was not a local villager. |
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D．He was the owner of the elephant. |
2.The elephant made so much trouble because ________.
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A．its owner treated him cruelly |
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B．it got out of control |
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C．it hated the village people |
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D．it was a wild elephant |
3.The underlined words “the peacebreaker” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________.
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A．the elephant |
B．the dead man |
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C．the author |
D．the subinspector |
4.It can be inferred that the author felt ________ when he shot the elephant.
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A．excited |
B．sad |
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C．frightened |
D．happy |
John was very upset because he was ________ by the police with breaking the law.
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A．accused |
B．arrested |
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C．sentenced |
D．charged |
In our daily life，everyone fails every now and then. It is how you ________ that makes a difference.
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A．react |
B．replace |
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C．rely |
D．request |
All of us didn't notice Tom come into the classroom because the light happened to ________ at that time.
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A．give in |
B．put up |
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C．go out |
D．switch off |
“Neal, listen，” she said, looking straight at him. “I ask you not to get ________ in this kind of matter. It's none of your business.”
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A．caught |
B．involved |
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C．attached |
D．connected |
