someone else.
"I wish my parents were more understanding."
"I have such a bad Chemistry teacher!"
"My friends are so boring and self-centered. They make my life worse and worse."
Blame! Blame! Blame!
It seems natural to sing this self-pitying song, but the truth is, if you don"t like your life, you should do
something about it. No one else knows exactly how you feel or what you need. No one can read your
mind correctly. You are the only one with the power (能力) to change your life, and if you want it to be
different, you can change what you"re doing. This means asking "What do I need? What do I want to do?"
instead of trying to meet others" needs. For example, try to decide how you want to spend your evening
instead of asking somebody else for advice. We teach other people how we want to be treated. If you
don"t think of our own needs, no one else will either.
When you"re in trouble, don"t give away your power to decide how you feel about yourself. Choose
how you want to think and act. Other people can"t make you unhappy or angry. They only act in their
own way and then it"s up to you to decide how you will respond (回应). For example, your friends go
out to lunch without you. You feel angry. How are you going to act? You may blame your friends …
"They are not kind. Who needs them anyway?" or you may tell your friends how you feel, listen to their
explanation (解释), and let them know you"d like to be invited next time.
When you decide everything in your own way, you"re getting hold of your own life and shaping it
according to your tastes and feelings. You can choose to be happy, to make friends and to build an
interesting life. When you blame others for what is or isn"t happening in your life, you have stopped
growing or learning.
One of the most important rules is that you can never change another person by your direct action. The
only person you have the right and power to change is yourself. Once you change, the other person then
has something different to respond to and change is possible. If you want change in your life, begin with
yourself … put love into your power to take action.
B. Read our minds correctly.
C. Change what we"re doing.
D. Tell others what we want.
B. talk to them and try to find out why
C. do the same thing to them in return
D. ask somebody else to talk to them
B. He believes our love can change everything.
C. He chooses to talk with others directly.
D. He prefers to change ourselves first instead.
B. Four.
C. Five.
D. Six.
need. It has been shown that rats will, when given a choice over a period of time, prefer water with
vitamins to water without vitamins even there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water
bottles. When a fragrant flavor (香味) was added to the vitamin-enriched water, the rats did seem to
develop a taste for it and kept drinking it, even after the vitamins were switched to the clear water. In time,
however, they broke the habit and went back to where the necessary vitamins were.
In a classic experiment, babies of 6 to 12 months old were placed in a cafeteria feeding arrangement,
with a wide selection of baby food before them. They were given whatever they pointed to or appeared
interested in. We are told that at first they showed some unusual eating patterns (方式), but over a period
of time they managed to select well-balanced diet.
So, in selecting food, rats and babies do seem to know and act on what"s best for them. Apparently,
there is a kind of "body wisdom", which humans soon lose. Most of us do not eat as wisely as we could. Many of our food preferences are culturally determined and influenced by long established habits. Some
people eat foxes, dogs and blackbirds, while we eat cows and pigs. So what people eat and how much
they eat seems to be greatly influenced by what is going on around them.
B. develop a taste for the same kinds of flavors
C. have the same eating patterns
D. prefer flavored food and drink
B. find out rats preference in flavor
C. encourage rats to drink vitamin-enriched water
D. test whether rats know which drink is good for them
B. adults usually cannot resist the temptation of various delicious food
C. adults" eating habits are closely related to the social and culture customs
D. adults know better than babies what kinds of food are good for their health
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Computers have many uses today. Computers can solve difficult problems |
1. What can Kurzweil Reading Machine do? |
A. Solve many problems at the same time. B. Play computer games with people. C. Help people learn language. D. Read the words on the paper. |
2. The underlined word "it" (in paragraph 2) refers to _____. |
A. the book B. the scanner C. the Kurzweil machine D. the blind |
3. What is the main idea of the second paragraph? |
A. How computers work. B. How to use a Kurzweil machine. C. How to use the scanner. D. The Kurzweil machine can read in two voices. |
4. Which of the following is TRUE? |
A. Computers can solve all the problems people can"t do. B. Calculators are used for solving many problems at the same time. C. When using the Kurzweil machine, a blind man needn"t do anything. D. The Kurzweil machine can help not only the blind people but also the shortsighted children. |
People believe that climbing can do good to health. Where can you learn the skill of climbing then? If you think that you have to go to the mountains to learn how to climb, you"re wrong. Many Americans are learning to climb in city gyms (体育馆). Here, people are learning on special climbing walls. The climbing wall goes straight up and has small holding places for hands and feet. How do people climb the wall? To climb, you need special shoes and a harness(保护带) around your chest to hold you. There are ropes (绳索)tied to your harness. The ropes hold you in place so that you don"t fall. A beginner"s wall is usually about 15 feet high, and you climb straight up. There are small pieces of metal that stick out for you to stand on and hold on to. Sometimes it"s easy to see the new piece of metal. Sometimes, it"s not. The most difficult part is to control your fear. It"s normal for humans to be afraid of falling, so it"s difficult not to feel fear. But when you move away from the wall, the harness and the ropes hold you, and you begin to feel safe. You move slowly until you reach the top. Climbing attracts people because it"s good exercise for almost everyone. You use your whole body, especially your arms and legs. This sport gives your body a complete workout. When you climb, both your mind and your body can become stronger. |
1. What can we infer from the passage? |
A. People are fairly interested in climbing nowadays. B. It is impossible to build up one"s body by climbing. C. People can only learn the skill of climbing outdoors. D. It is always easy to see holding places in climbing. |
2. The most difficult thing to do in wall climbing is _______. |
A. to tie ropes to your harness B. to control your fear C. to move away from the wall D. to climb straight up |
3. The word "workout" underlined in the last paragraph most probably means _______. |
A. settlement B. exercise C. excitement D. tiredness |
4. Why does the author write this passage? |
A. To tell people where to find gyms. B. To prove the basic need for climbing. C. To encourage people to climb mountains. D. Introduce the sport of wall climbing |
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