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The important thing in life is to have a great goal and the determination to attain it. Living without a goal is like 1. (sail) without a compass. Lack of purposes is the cause of most of2.(failure). When a great aim has been decided on, determination and persistence are most important.
What separates the successful from the unsuccessful is persistence. The persistence is3. (necessity). If you are persistent, you will succeed. When Ludwig van Beethoven 4. (reach) his peak, he was totally deaf. If you study his biography, and become familiar 5. his trails, his hardships, and battles, you can learn 6.to defeat fate. Many organizational analysts and career consultants consider persistence 7.(be) the ultimate (首要的) key to success at both the organizational and personal level. Successful people also fail8.(occasional), but they do not let it defeat 9. spirit. Learning from defeats , they revise strategy as it is needed and try again, and again and again,10. they succeed.
My father sold everything we owned, took all the money and disappeared from our lives. My mother suddenly found herself ____ to care for five boys. I worried about the situation, but my mother stayed ______ , and told us that she would keep us together as a _____safe from harm. Although small in size, she could _____heavy horse-drawn ploughs(犁). Besides, she _____ found time to help us with homework.
As Christmas approached, my mother didn’t seem to smile as much. I _______ she had no money to buy us presents. Considering myself practically grown, I hid my ______ .
One day, my mother took a saw(锯) into the forest and _________ with some tree branches. She left them in the barn(畜棚) and did not tell her ________ children what they were for. She worked on her project________ I was in school, but I looked ______ into the barn whenever I had a chance. Several days later, I still couldn’t ______ her purpose. When later I saw she used nails and paint, I ____ that she must be making presents for us.
By Christmas week, my mother was her _______ happy self again. Her project was apparently__ and she obviously kept it secret because I’d looked everywhere without ______ .
On Christmas Eve, I lay awake for a long time, _____ Christmas morning.
The next morning, my mother handed out the handmade presents happily in front of her delighted kids. Many difficult years would follow that particular Christmas, but I never again doubted my mother’s ____ to care for us. We were never hungry, and she made sure we got a(n) ______ in school. She taught us to have faith in our own abilities. That faith ___me still.
1.A.responsible B.unable C.alone D.hopeful
2.A.positive B.negative C.passionate D.depressed
3.A.family B.secret C.promise D.team
4.A.repair B.control C.maintain D.handle
5.A.ever B.even C.just D.yet
6.A.witnessed B.realized C.recognized D.heard
7.A.anger B.embarrassment C.puzzlement D.disappointment
8.A.escaped B.left C.returned D.departed
9.A.curious B.energetic C.exciting D.naughty
10.A.because B.before C.when D.after
11.A.occasionally B.anxiously C.accidentally D.secretly
12.A.point out B.find out C.bring out D.pick out
13.A.suggested B.admitted C.swore D.concluded(推测)
14.A.typical B.unique C.normal D.regular
15.A.complete B.awkward C.creative D.fantastic
16.A.delay B.hesitation C.difficulty D.success
17.A.scheduling B.expecting C.avoiding D.greeting
18.A.ability B.belief C.decision D.enthusiasm
19.A.praise B.welcome C.tutor D.education
20.A.guarantees B.surprises C.supports D.comforts
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。High school can be quite the stressful time for any student. There are numerous stresses to deal with and the pressure can be more intense as you enter your senior year.1.The answer is as follows.2.Adjust your approach to your specific situation. For instance, if you’re active in your community and your school and have a large family, you may feel depressed by having all these people involved in your life on a daily basis.3.You just may need a moment to be alone and collect your thoughts before moving on to the challenges that face you.4.If your stress persists and you can’t figure out a way to handle it, you may want to try speaking to your school counselor(顾问). If you don’t feel comfortable speaking to your counselor, try getting some other types of counseling.Realize your limits, and plan around them. Don’t take on more than you can handle. If you take on too many things, you will be spread too thin and won’t be able to perform at your best in anything.5.You will definitely feel more at ease!
A. Seek professional counseling. |
B. Why does the stress come into being? |
C. Try thinking of alternative ways to deal with stress. |
D. When you feel relieved, you can have a happier life. |
E. Taking some time out to be alone may be the best way to handle such stress. |
F. But how on earth can you reduce some of the stress? |
G. Evaluate what tasks and activities are most important and leave others behind. |
Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.
I was attending a standup comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their heads off. The main reason why those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn't only funny, but it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.
The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren't jealous of him.
In short, we don't laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage you from making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person's emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.
1.What did the author find out after studying psychology?
A.Only good jokes make people laugh.
B.Many factors lead to people's laughing.
C.Funny things can make people laugh.
D.Laughter can make people healthy.
2.Why did the audience laugh loud at the pedestrians?
A.They played a trick on the pedestrians.
B.The pedestrians behaved in a funny way.
C.They could feel the pedestrians' happiness.
D.Their emotion was approved of by the show.
3.What does the underlined word “belittling” probably mean?
A.Annoy. B.Blame.
C.Look down on. D.Make up to.
4.Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
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I was born and raised in England in a culture where privacy and “keeping yourself to yourself” were valued traditions. Speaking to strangers was not encouraged. People were most hospitable(好客的) and friendly—but only once they had been introduced to new people.
However, I have been lucky enough to spend some time in both Italy and the US, where I found traditions of hospitality and politeness to be very different.
I experienced Italian hospitality first－hand on a crowded railway carriage travelling, one afternoon, from Genoa to Florence. Sinking gratefully into an empty seat, I was berated(斥责) in rapid Italian by a gentleman who was returning to this seat－it had not been “spare” after all. I apologized in English, and got up to allow him back into the seat. The gentleman obviously had no understanding of the English language, but he, too, realized my genuine mistake. He smiled and gestured for me to remain in the seat, and he himself remained standing in the corridor for the remainder of the journey. The other occupants of the carriage smiled and nodded at me and made me feel quite welcome amongst them. I feel that if this had been in England, a foreigner who made a mistake would not always be so kindly treated.
Transport also featured in the differences I noticed between English and American culture. I flew to New York on a plane with mainly English passengers. We sat together in near silence. Nobody spoke to me nor, as I expected, to anyone else they did not know. They felt it was not polite to intrude on someone else's privacy. However, when I travelled across the United States, whether by plane or Greyhound bus, I was never short of conversation. Conversation was going on all around me and whoever sat next to me was happy to introduce themselves and ask me about myself. They obviously felt it would have been rude not to speak to another person, whether they were strangers or not.
1.What do we know about the occupants of the carriage when the author was travelling in Italy?
A.They all laughed at the author for his mistake.
B.They would not bear a mistake like the author's in public.
C.They were all on the side of the gentleman.
D.They all showed their understanding of the author's mistake.
2.The author probably believes the Italian people are________.
A.cold B.rude
C.hospitable D.helpful
3.According to the last paragraph, English passengers sat in near silence because________.
A.they were all strangers to each other
B.they were too tired to speak
C.privacy was a valued tradition in England
D.everybody had their own share of privacy
4.The purpose of the author is to tell us ________.
A.his travelling experience
B.cultural differences to show hospitality and politeness
C.the culture shock he experienced in Italy and the US
D.how to adapt ourselves to a new culture
It was the middle of third grade and I was not sure what had got into me. I lied about many things ---I lied that I had eaten all my dinner, when in fact I buried it in the trash can, I lied that I had made my bed, when clearly I had not. My lies were not hurting anyone, but for some reason I felt the need to tell lies on an impulse (冲动 )that didn't feel like my own. I was labeled a liar.
One day my sisters and I were invited to spend the weekend with my aunt we all loved it. She spoiled us with her time. And she was an amazing artist. She had cool pencils，erasers and other supplies that any young girl would love to get her hands on. Then it happened ... someone took one of Aunt Kim's good art erasers and rubbed it across the entire top of the TV. The eraser ruined the shiny finish on the TV’s casing. All the three of us were called into the TV room and asked to admit. Nobody did! Aunt Kim told us how disappointed she was.
The next thing I knew was that she was on the phone with my parents and they were on their way to picking me up. It had to be me! I was the liar. I argued, but no one listened. And then before dinner there was a knock at the front door! Aunt Kim was standing there. It turned out my younger sister finally felt guilty! She admitted that she was the one who rubbed the eraser on the TV. I was invited back!
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. No matter how big or small your lies are, once you are labeled a liar, earning trust takes a lot of work and time.
1.Why does the author tell lies?
A.She just does that out of a strong desire.
B.She can find pleasure in telling a lie.
C.She is afraid to admit her mistakes.
D.She likes to play tricks on others.
2.What may make Aunt Kim disappointed most?
A.The TV’s finish was ruined. B.The author told a lie again.
C.Nobody admitted the mistake. D.The erasers were totally useless.
3.What’s the reaction of the author’s parents and aunt to the accident?
A.They felt puzzled about who did it.
B.None of them blamed the three girls.
C.They gave the author a chance to admit.
D.They believed it was done by the author.
4.What lesson did the author learn?
A.A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
B.A liar pays a lot to win trust again.
C.Lies can never change the fact.
D.An honest man will speak out.
