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article or do you appear through smoke and mirrors? I find that if I try to be something
I"m not, I feel unsure of myself and take out a part from my PBA (personal bank account ).
I love how singer Judy Garland put it, "Always be a first-class version of yourself,
instead of a second-class version of somebody else."
Then there"s honesty in our actions. Are you honest at school, with your parents, and
with your boss? If you"ve ever been dishonest, I think we all have, try being honest, and
notice how whole it makes you feel. Remember, you can"t do wrong and feel right. This story
by Jeff is a good example of that:
In my second year of study, there were three kids in my math class who didn"t do well.
I was really good at it. I would charge them three dollars for each test that I helped
them pass. I"d write on a little piece of paper all the right answers, and hand them off.
At first I felt like I was making money, kind of a nice job. I wasn"t thinking about
how it could hurt all of us. After a while I realized I shouldn"t do that anymore, because
I wasn"t really helping them. They weren"t learning anything, and it would only get harder
down the road. Cheating certainly wasn"t helping me.
It takes courage to be honest when people all around you are getting away with cheating
on tests, lying to their parents, and stealing at work. But, remember, every act of
honesty is a deposit into your PBA and will build strength.
B. Don"t copy others or you can"t be the first class.
C. Make efforts to be the first instead of the second.
D. Don"t learn from others unless they"re excellent.
B. A bad thing can be turned into a good one.
C. Helping others cheat can do good to nobody.
D. One should realize the wrong in his bad deeds.
B. it"s difficult to be honest when others are not
C. one should be honest when making a deposit
D. honesty in one"s actions can help him in the future
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试题【阅读理解。 Honesty comes in many forms. First there"s self-honesty. Is what people】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, a wise man advised, "Barbara, be
enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right
they were!
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is
the paste that helps you hang on there when the going tough. It is the inner voice that
whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can"t!" It took years and years for
the early work of Barara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine,
to be generally accepted. Yet she didn"t stop working on her experiments. Work was such a
deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder
that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age was. At 90, cellist
Palblo Cassls would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers
his stooped shoulders would strengthen and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and
poet Samuei Ulman once wrote, "Years wrinkle (使起皱纹) the skin,but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul."
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or power. Patricia
Mellrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, was once asked
where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer long ago told me, I never
made a dime until I stopped working for money."
If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton
was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had trouble
d her for at least 30 years,and the quality of her led one critic (批评家)to say, "I"d like
to call Layton a genius."
We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-been". We need to turn the tears into
sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, which all
our senses-including pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture
of a six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.
B. 色彩
C. 惰性
D. 金钱
B. enthusiasm can give people energy needed to succeed
C. enthusiasm can keep people feel young
D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy
B. Two
C. Four
D. Five
B. enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life
C. enthusiasm is more important than experience
D. enthusiasm can give people more success and fame.
become a stronger person after her terrible experience at the 2004 Athens Games.
Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August,
said:"Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care about criticism (批评)."
"In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to
the people around me."
She didn"t care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe
should have rested and let her body recover after her failure in Athens.
"Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn"t spoken to me since last year and if she
really cared for me, I"m sure she would have contacted (联系) me."
Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks after Athens.
"In New York I wasn"t in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the
race."
Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday"s race would be winning a third title and
not chasing world records.
However, Radcliffe has not ruled out (排除) in the future chasing her "final" world
record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career
to produce only four or five world-class times.
"I don"t think that-although I can"t put a number on it," said Radcliffe. "That changes
from person to person."
Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance some point in the
future. Following a successful three-month training period in the United States, the
31-year-old will chase a third title on Sunday after her first victory in 2002 and again
12 months later.
Radcliffe clocked a time 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kilometre race three years ago.
Afterwards she set a "mixed course" mark of 2:17:18 five months later in Chicago before
lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 in the 2003 London event.
B. rest for five months
C. love people around her more
D. develop respect for Liz
B. Radcliffe didn"t fully recover before the New York City marathon.
C. Radcliffe won her first marathon title in the 2004 Athens Games.
D. Radcliffe had a 3-month training before the New York City marathon.
B. two
C. three
D. four
B. Well begun is half done.
C. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
D. Where there is a will, there is a way.
and wealth and other comforts of life, one becomes happy, the other becomes unhappy.
This arises from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and
the resulting effects upon their minds.
People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things. The pleasant
parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine, the fine weather.
They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the
opposite things. Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they sour the
pleasure of society, offend (hurt) many people, and make themselves disagreeable everywhere.
If this turn of mind was founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be
pitied. The intention of criticizing and being disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation. It grows
into a habit, unknown to its possessors. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when
those who have it realize its bad effects on their interests and tastes. I hope this little warning
may be of service to them, and help them change this habit.
Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has serious results in life since it
brings on deep sorrow and bad luck. Those people offend many others; nobody loves them,
and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This frequently
puts them in bad temper and draws them into arguments. If they aim at getting some advantages
in social position or fortune, nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone start a step or speak
a word to favor their hopes. If they bring on themselves public objections, no one will defend
or excuse them, and many will join to criticize their wrong doings. These should change this bad
habit and be pleased with what is pleasing, with out worrying needlessly about themselves and
others. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them. Otherwise, it can
be disagreeable and sometimes very inconvenient, especially when one becomes mixed up in their
quarrels.
B. usually are affected by the results of certain things
C. usually misunderstand what others think or say
D. always discover the unpleasant side of certain things
B. make others unhappy
C. tend to scold others openly
D. enjoy the pleasure of life
B. The unhappy are dangerous
C. How to get rid of the habit of unhappiness
D. Try to understand the unhappy
should _____.
B. show no respect and politeness to them
C. persuade them to recognize the bad effects
D. quarrel with them until they realize the mistakes
B. laughs at the unhappy people
C. suggests ways to help the unhappy
D. tells people how to be happy in life
wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate
(照亮) me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing
hours, too good not to share.
When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and "too serious" about
our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable
social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would
sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:"Let"s start with a train whistle
today." We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out
of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too,
were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair (失望) and I was
in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry
later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met
every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs
disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine.
We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves.Each of us appears,
sometimes in a funny way, in the other"s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we
seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:"Yes, I
must tell…." We have never met.
It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is
worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist (心理学家), who will only
fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would
rather be my own best friend.
to _____.
B. go to her friend"s house regularly
C. learn from her classmates at school
D. share poems and stories with her friend
B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London
C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
D. we parted with each other in London
B. have similar personalities
C. enjoy writing to each other
D. dream of meeting each other
B. be left alone
C. stay with her best friend
D. break the silence
on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the
eye, the doctors stitched (缝合) the eyeball together where it was 2 , leaving a big
ugly scar (疤痕) in the middle of my eye. The attempt 3 , but my mother, in all of
her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed 4 , my
face would grow up badly distorted (扭曲), 5 my scarred, sightless, cloudy and
gray eye lived on with me. As I grew,this sightless eye in so many ways 6 me.
I walked with my face looking at the 7 so that people would not see the 8 me.
Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, "Hold your head up high and 9 the
world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your 10 soul."
She continued this 11 whenever I was trying to hide.
Mama"s words were of great help for me to face the world 12 . As a teenager, even
though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometime when I held my
head up high and let people know me, they 13 me. In high school, I was 14 both
academically and socially. I was 15 elected class president. My mother"s words helped
me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them 16 the intelligence
and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn"t see it on the 17 .
Now I"m a happy wife and great mother. The message "Hold your head up high" has
been 18 many times in my 19 home. Each of my children has felt 20 invitation, and
the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.