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viewed personal growth as an external (外在的) result or a product that can easily be identified and measured.
The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all
these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.
By contrast (对照), the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a
journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but the
attitudes, feelings people have, and their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected
difficulties. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world,
new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.
In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown,
and to accept the possibility that they may "fail" at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being
is necessary for our ability to grow. Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, we tend to take more
chances and be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we"re shy and indecisive? Then our sense
of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and we think we are slow to adapt change or that we"re not
smart enough to deal with a new challenge. Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.
These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and
grow. If we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing. We become trapped inside a shell of our
own making.
B. grow up from his own achievements
C. face difficulties and take up challenges
D. aim high and reach his goal each time
B. Jane won the first prize in the speech competition.
C. Jerry picked up French during his stay in Paris.
D. Father"s salary rose from 5, 000 to 7,000.
B. being quick in self-adaptation
C. having an open mind to new experiences
D. staying away from failures and challenges
B. To try and fail on the new road facing the unknown is unavoidable.
C. There are only two ways to see a person"s growth.
D. If you are too shy to take any risks in life, you cannot grow up.
B. Growth-Product or Process
C. Two Basic Ways of Growth
D. Overcoming Internal Fears
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do they operate?
Leadership today is not about forcing others to do things. If this is even possible, it is short-term, and
tends to backfire. If you order someone to do something against their will, they may do it because they feel
they must, but the anger they feel will do more harm in the long-term. They will also experience fear.
Fear causes the thinking brain to shut down, making the person unable to function at his or her best. If
they associate you with this emotion of fear, they will become less functional around you, and you will have
succeeded in not only shooting yourself in the foot, but possibly making a very good employee or partner
unable to perform effectively. Fear has no place in leadership.
The way we influence people in a lasting way is by our own character, and our understanding and use
of emotion. We can order someone to do something, which may be part of the work day; or we can employ
them at the emotional level, so they became fully devoted to the projects and provide some of their own
motivation (积极性). Today"s work place is all about relationships. Anyone works harder in a positive
environment in which they"re recognized and valued as a human being as well as a worker. Everyone produces
just a bit more for someone they like. Leaders understand the way things work. They know the pay check
is not the single most motivating factor (因素) in the work life of most people.
The true strength of leadership is an inner strength that comes from the confidence of emotional intelligence-
knowing your own emotions, and how to handle them, and those of others. Developing your emotional
intelligence is the single best thing you can do if you want to develop your relationships with people around
you, which is the key to the leadership skills.
B. to grow forth (向前) from the ground
C. to move or pass suddenly or swiftly
D. to injure or harm one"s own interests
B. he is forced to do things
C. he feels his brain shut down
D. he thinks of his work as too heavy
B. Working conditions affect people"s physical health.
C. Smart people are more functional in the work place.
D. Good relationship is the key to business success.
B. provide better suggestions
C. give his employees a pay raise
D. hide his own emotion of fear
B. help raise employees" living standards
C. deal wisely with employees" emotions
D. give employees" specific instructions (指导)
card came with it. Calls to the flower-shop were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover
the sender"s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent
daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She"d ask me if there was someone
for whom I had done special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I"d delivered
during the winter. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I had run into.
One month before my graduation, my father died, I felt so sad that I became completely uninterested in
my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn"t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own
sadness would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth,
my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect with
perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
B. A Mother"s Love
C. A Graduation Party
D. A Special Birthday
B. Because she have more fun imagining.
C. Because the sender give a girl happiest moments.
D. Because she try to discover the sender"s name.
B. she hoped she would find a boyfriend
C. she wanted her to be happy and strong
D. she thought education was most important
B. One of the writer"s neighbors.
C. One of the writer"s classmates.
D. The writer"s mother.
I"m late, but it"s not my fault; the car broke down." It is probably not your fault, but once you form the habit
of blaming somebody or something else for a bad situation,you are a loser. You have no power and could do
nothing that helps change the situation. However, you can have great power over what happens to you if you
stop focusing on whom to blame and start focusing on how to remedy the situation. This is the winner"s key
to success.
Winners are great at overcoming problems. For example, if you were late because your car broke down,
maybe you need to have your car examined more regularly. Or, you might start to carry along with you the
useful phone numbers, so you could call for help when in need. For another example, if your colleague (同事)
causes you problems on the job for lack of responsibility or ability, find ways of dealing with his irresponsibility
or inability rather than simply blame the person. Ask to work with a different person, or don"t rely on this
person. You should accept that the person is not reliable and find creative ways to work successfully regardless
of how your colleague fails to do his job well.
This is what being a winner is all about-creatively using your skills and talents so that you are successful
no matter what happens. Winners don"t have fewer problems in their lives; they have just as many difficult
situations to face as anybody else. They are just better at seeing those problems as challenges and opportunities
to develop their own talents. So, stop focusing on "whose fault it is." Once you are confident about your power
over bad situations, problems are just stepping stones for success.
B. meet with fewer difficulties in their lives
C. have responsible and able colleagues
D. blame themselves rather than others
B. accept
C. improve
D. consider
B. blame him for his lack of responsibility
C. tell him to find the cause of the problem
D. ask a more able colleague for help
B. A Winner"s Secret.
C. A Winner"s Problem.
D. A Winner"s Achievement.
those of others? The answer is NO. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses the tools that make
difference. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power is important to a carpenter. You will
probably agree that knowing how to investigate and how to discover information is important to anyone. The
scientist goes one step further than that; he must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and
that his answer can be confirmed by other persons. He also works to fit the answers he gets to many questions
into a large set of ideas about how the world works.
The scientist"s knowledge must be exact. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works
under one set of conditions at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions
are different, any change the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the change in the
conditions. This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who developed the
theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of his mathematics was later
tested through investigations, Einstein"s ideas were shown to be correct.
B. The theory of relativity
C. What makes a scientist
D. What"s important to a scientist
B. A scientist must know how to investigate and how to discover information
C. A scientist must be sure that he has an exact and reasonable answer to his questions
D. A scientist must be a good runner, because he must go a step further than others
B. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit
C. What works under one set of conditions at one time must work under the same conditions at other times
D. If the conditions are different, any changes the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by
the changes in the conditions
B. Make a careful study
C. Develop
D. Find information
B. Relativity is the accuracy of mathematics
C. Relativity is developed through investigation and tested through mathematics
D. Relativity is a theory developed through mathematics and tested through investigation
does not 1 every person, just like the sun doesn"t shine every day.
Do you give up your plan to go hiking 2 because the weather isn"t as good as you had hoped? No, of
course not. I would rather go on trying no matter what I 3 and enjoy on the way to my destination (目的地).
4 , failure is like a naughty boy who plays with us on the way to our goals. Not only does he want to 5
us, but he wants to help us become braver. The more we 6 , the braver we"ll be.
If failure is the 7 without the moon, I"ll still smile at it, as stars may twinkle on us still. 8 , we all like the
moon, but should we ignore the stars? There is always something more important than 9 . In other words, we
shouldn"t only 10 on whether we succeed or fail. In fact, we learn a lot from failure. It is really helpful. The
more we learn from failure, the 11 we"ll be.
If failure is a bird without 12 , I"ll still smile at it. Flying isn"t the only thing a bird can do. If we can"t be 13
by the wide blue sky, why don"t we 14 adapting ourselves to the forest through our beautiful singing? Failure
15 us that we should believe in ourselves. We may fail in one area, but we may 16 in another. Maybe we"ll
find that we have a talent for something we never knew about before. Who 17 ?
Life is like a box of chocolates, and you 18 know what you"re going to get. Just keep on trying. The process
of trying is much more valuable than the 19 .
Smile at 20 and smile at life.