Question

    You’ve probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, vocal music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists (精神病医师) and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.

But there’s a rapidly growing kind of professional who does a little bit of everything. She or he is called a “life coach”. People who are at crossroads in their lives and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost are turning to them for help.

The idea that one person’s success story can change other people’s lives for the better goes back at least to the 1930s. Dale Carnegie’s famous self-improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.

But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers. They use their own experiences in business, sports, military service, or psychotherapy (心理疗法) to help others make critical life decisions.

They often give their approach a slogan, such as “energy coaching” or “fearless living” or “working yourself happy”.

Dave Lakhani in Boise, Idaho, for instance, works with salespeople to develop what he calls a “road map”. He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for one’s career and life outside work.

Lakhani’s Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful — including battered women and struggling single mothers.

But others in the so-called “helping professions” are not thrilled about the life-coaching movement. They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and that slick (华而不实的) promoters who mess with people’s lives can do more harm than good.

1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.Working Yourself Happy

B.Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions

C.How to Cope with Daily Life with Life Coaches

D.The Life-Coaching Movement

2.The underlined phrase “life coach” in Paragraph 2 means “      ”.

A.the career counselor who teaches skills

B.the psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily life

C.the fitness coach who teaches us lessons

D.the specialist who helps us make important life decisions

3.The last paragraph is mainly about       .

A.the introductions of life coach

B.the disagreements of life coach

C.the effects of life coach

D.the experiences of life coach

4.What is the author’s attitude towards life coaches?

A.Cautious. B.Approving.

C.Casual. D.Disapproving.

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章讲述生活中出现一些生活教练，他会给你生活指导，激励你，但也有些华而不实的人生教练会扰乱你的生活。

1.主旨大意题。根据第二段中的She or he is called a “life coach”. People who are at crossroads in their lives and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost are turning to them for help.(他或她被叫作生活教练，当人们处于人生的十字路口，公司想给某人升职时，需要他们的帮助)及下文对生活教练介绍可知，文章主要介绍了生活教练能够帮助你在艰难的时刻，做决定。由此可知，Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions(生活教练帮助你做出艰难的决定)适合做本文最佳标题。故选B。

2.词义猜测题。根据第二段提到She or he is called a “life coach”. People who are at crossroads in their lives and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost are turning to them for help.(他或她被叫作生活教练，当人们处于人生的十字路口，公司想给某人升职时，需要他们的帮助)可知，这些生活教练是指那些帮助我们做出人生重要决定的专家。故选D。

3.主旨大意题。根据最后一段提到They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and that slick (华而不实的) promoters who mess with people’s lives can do more harm than good.( 他们说，任何人，不管是训练有素的还是未经训练的，都可以称自己为人生导师，而那些搅乱人们生活的华而不实的推销者可能弊大于利)可知，本段主要介绍了人们在生活教练方面的分歧。故选B。

4.推理判断题。作者指出生活中出现一些生活教练，他会给你生活指导，激励你，但也有些华而不实的人生教练会扰乱你的生活。关于生活教练，作者并没有明确支持，也没有明确地反对。由此可知，作者对生活教练的持有谨慎的态度。故选A。