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e about the book they have been planning to writebut have never yet found the time? Far too many.
This is Life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal (排演) and, unhappily, we do miss so many
of its best moments.
We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that
this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then,
at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and
realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real life.
In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English:"Have a nice day". They speak slowly
and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in
fact, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day.
How often do we say to ourselves, "I"ll take up horse-riding (or golf, or sailing) as soon as I get a
higher position," only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.
When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the
Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what
appeared to me to be his completely abnormal (反常的) mental state. How could anyone turn his back
on Fleet Street in central London for a small local area? I wanted to know.
Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under
continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on
Southern Region trains.
B. we always make plans but seldom accomplish them
C. we always enjoy many of life"s best moments
D. we always do what we really want to do
B. return to
C. give up
D. rely on
B. under too much pressure
C. not well paid
D. not respected
B. Take Up Horse-riding
C. Value This Very Day
D. Stay Alive
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试题【阅读理解。 How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have b】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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the reading comprehension is no problem, and you are speaking quite fluently. _ _1
First of all, remember that you are not alone. Listening is probably the most difficult job for almost all
learners of English as a foreign language. The most important thing is to listen as often as possible. _ 2
The Internet is really a useful tool for English students. You can download The RealPlayer from
RealMedia.com. The RealPlayer allows you to use the Internet like a radio station.
Once you have begun to listen on a regular basis, you might still be frustrated (受阻)by limited
understanding. __ 3__
Here is some of the advice I give my students:
●Accept the fact that you are not going to understand everything.
●Stay relaxed
when you do not understand, and try listening to the material for more times.● Do not translate everything into your native language.
● __4___ Don"t concentrate on details before you have understood the main ideas.
● Listen to something you enjoy.
I remember the problems I had in understanding spoken German when I first went to Germany. In
the beginning, when I didn"t understand a word, I insisted on translating it in my mind. This method usually
resulted in confusion. 5 Firstly, translating creates a barrier between the listener and the speaker.
Secondly, most people repeat themselves constantly. By remaining calm, I noticed that even if I didn"t
pay much attention I could usually understand what the speaker had said.
A.But you can"t follow a native English
speaker at all!B.What should you do?
C.But listening is a problem for most of the beginners!
D.However, after several weeks, I got used to the new environment in Germany.
E.So, what you need to do is to find listening resources.
F.Then, after the first six months, I discovered two extremely important facts.
G.Listen for the general idea of the conversation.
Friendships are some of the most important relationships that we will ever have in our lives. But how to build a solid friendship? Here are five tips for you.
Tip 1. _____
True friendships can only be built in honesty. This is more than just telling the truth. Being real and open about who you are and your thoughts and feelings are a part of building a solid friendship. If your "friends" don"t even really know you, who are they really friends with?
Tip 2. Shared Experiences
As you build your friendship, you will share many experiences together. Some of these may be great
adventures or hard times that the two of you go through together. These shared experiences are things that you will laugh about, talk about, and cry about no matter how much time passes.
Tip 3. Sacrificial(牺牲精神的)love
Love is the basis(基础)of all solid relationships. I am not referring to the emotion(情感) of love, but to
the action of love. Love is what will cause a friend to get out of bed in the middle of the night to help
another. Love is what will put aside someone"s own wants to make sure that their friend is alright.
Tip 4. Understanding
When a friendship is solid, it will be based on each other"s understanding. You may not agree with
everything that a friend says or does, but you will be able to put yourself into his or her shoes to begin to
understand. Offering understanding to a friend is very important, as it allows them to feel that they have
someone in their corner that they can talk to and who will offer advice and suggestions, without having to
worry that if they don"t always follow it, the friendship will be lost.
Tip 5. Acceptance
A solid friendship is one in which two people accept one another, faults and all, for just who they are.
There is no having to build up false excuses, or hide away the "dark secrets" from one another. We
accept each other as whole, complete, and totally unique people.
1. What"s the best title of Tip 1?
A. Introduction of yourself.
B. Telling the truth
C. Honesty
D. True friendships
2. Which tip can remind us of an English proverb "Love me, love my dog"?
A. Tip 2.
B. Tip 3.
C. Tip 4.
D. Tip 5.
3. What"s the meaning of the underlined part "put yourself into his or her shoes" in Tip 4?
A. Exchange your shoes with his or hers.
B. Try on his or her shoes.
C. Put yourself in his or her position.
D. Force yourself.
4. What"s the best title of the whole passage?
A. A solid friendship
B. The most important relationships
C. Five tips for you
D. Tips on how to build a solid friendship
The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.
A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself.
If wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from
outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty
to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them---
and to create them faster than any man"s money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.
I doubt the holy man"s idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too.
Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing
--- in changing the world and mankind into pure states.
To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.
It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because
without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it.
The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by
refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.
The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their
sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.
The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness
may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a
basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.
1. Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author?
A. The Indian holy man
B. The great Irish poet Yeats
C. Advertisers
D. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market
2. What does "happiness-market" mean in the second paragraph?
A. It means a place in which people can buy things happily
B. It means a market which lacks happy customers
C. It means a pure state for the world and mankind
D. It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.
3. According to the passage, which of the following is Right?
A. The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner.
B. The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.
C. There is no fun without playing by the rules
D. Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same.
注意：每空格一个单词。
Some people believe that greed and selfishness has become the basis of modern society. We should
return to the old traditions of family and community, and then we will have a better life. To what extent do
you agree or disagree with the above opinion?
In this fast-paced world, many values are undergoing major changes. While people traditionally prioritize(区分优先次序) caring, sharing and generosity in life and work, modern people seem to be more
self-absorbed and self-concerned.
Modern people act selfishly to survive the harsh competition of life. They say that it is a jungle out there. To survive, you have to fight with whatever means that come handy. Obviously greedy and selfishness go
perfectly well with such ideas. In a company, employees do everything they can to get better pay and higher position, even at the cost of colleagues. We are in any way advocating any selfish conduct. It is just that
people are pressured to act in a certain way due to outside influences.
In spite of common practice, it is hard to conclude that modern society is built on greed and selfishness,
both of which are not newly invented vocabulary. In ancient times people also did greedy and selfish things
though such behaviors were more condemned(谴责) then. But we cannot ignore the fact that people in the
past lived a relatively more isolated life and faced less pressure compared with their modern twins.
Are we happier to share with others and be generous to them? There is no fixed answer either. Some
people take great pleasure helping and giving to others while others feel happy doing the opposite. But I
personally think that people should not be too selfish. Caring for others can actually encourage the
development of a mutually beneficial relationship.
In conclusion, modern people appear to be more self-centered than those in the past due to strong
outside pressure. However, we should encourage people to know the importance of being caring and
generous and to build a mutually beneficial relationship with others.
Title: Are Modern People Becoming More Selfish?
| Main comparisons | Contexts | |||
| (1)________ | In the past people put caring, sharing and generosity in the (2)_________ place. | |||
| Nowadays, people seem to be more (3)_________ about themselves. | ||||
| (4)________ | People in the past appeared to be modest and self-effacing(谦让). | |||
| People may strive to achieve their own (5)_________, even at the price of their coworkers. | ||||
| The author"s understanding | ||||
| (6)_________ for the changes in author"s eyes | Fierce (7)_________ and great (8)_________ on modern people may be responsible for the changes. | |||
| The author"s (9)_________ towards topic | A relationship which can (10)_________ both sides should be established. | |||
| 完形填空 You may not realize it, but you are doing much more than just studying when you are at school. School is also the place __1__you socialize and learn to get along with people. But this is __2__easy. What can you do __3__you just don"t like one of your classmates? If you discover that you have problems __4__your classmates or friends, the most important thing to learn is tolerance(宽容). Tolerance is the __5__to recognize and respect the __6__in others. We cannot change the way that other people act, __7__it is important to learn to live happily with them. Practicing tolerance will allow everyone to form better __8__with each other. Getting to know someone __9__help you understand why they do things __10__from you. It is important to remember that just because something is different does not mean that it is bad. Tolerance __11__us to keep an even temper and open mind. One thing to __12__is the old saying, "Treat others how you want __13__". You would like to be treated kindly by your classmates, so it is __14__to treat them with equal kindness. If you tolerate__15__it does not mean that you have to like it. No one is asking you to __16__who you are or what you believe in. Tolerance just means that you will be __17__of the differences in others and not try to make them change. It is important to ___18__tolerance because it will make everyone"s lives easier. Learn to __19__people for their different abilities and interests. The world is a very __20__place, and practicing tolerance in your own school and city can help make a difference. | ||||
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