— The designers are over the moon.What's up?
— They've reached an agreement on_________the bonuses are to be divided later.
A.why B.how C.where D.when
Optimism is the essential ingredient of top performers,__________we assume separates the high achievers from the rest.
A.as B.who C.which D.that
Many migrating birds wing their way over and through the city,_____some surprising natural scenery.
A.created B.creating C.having created D.to create
The regulations_____________anyone in our school with nobody an exception.
A.go for B.call for C.turn to D.belong to
The naughty boy was so curious that he________his neck to see what was going on.
A.fastened B.stretched C.exposed D.strengthened
阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Who is in control of your life? Who is pulling your strings? For the majority of us, it’s other people --- society, colleagues, friends, or our family. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”
When people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug we are addicted to it and seek it out wherever we can. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their drug, we worsen our own existence to get our own constant drug of approval.
But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom --- the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. Moreover, people have their own business, and in the end, they’re more interested in themselves than in you.
The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.
So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way --- make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values --- not values imposed(强加) from the outside by others, but values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.
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