Everyone has talent, but not everyone succeeds with their talent. More factors t
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Everyone has talent, but not everyone succeeds with their talent. More factors than mere talent attribute to a greater personal success. Having talent or being talented is never enough to find success in life.
Dr. John Maxwell has written a new book to explain that there is more to success than just being talented. He says that the only way to find success in life is to apply good choices to talent and rise above the crowd. He believes that talented people need more than their gifts or abilities to succeed in life. There must be something more than just talent to become successful. A talent-plus person, a person who rises above the understanding of mere talent, is much more likely to find success than those with just talent alone.
People who have talent must be willing to make the right choices to maximize their talent. Wrong choices will minimize their talent, preventing them from rising to higher levels in life. Maximizing talent requires people to make good choices, but understanding that there are specific things in life requires no talent at all. Maxwell lists many different choices that people make to become a talent-plus persons including Belief lifts talent, Relationships influence talent, Responsibility strengthens talent, Teamwork multiplies talent, etc.
Following the simple principles found in the book can not only help people raise the level of their talent but also raise their level of living. When people combine the principles with their talents they can become a talent-plus person. The choice becomes one of willingness and personal change. Talent-plus people have the ability to change their life and the world.
小题1:What’s the possible name of Maxwell’s new book?
(no more than 8 words)
小题2:What should one do if he wants to become a talent-plus person?
(no more than 8 words)
小题3:List three specific things which can maximize one’s talent according to Paragraph 3 ?
(no more than 5 words)
小题4:What does the underlined word “maximize” in Paragraph 3 mean in English?
(no more than 8 words)
小题5:Do you want to be a talent-plus person? Why or why not? Please give one or two reasons.
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答案
小题1:Having talent is not enough to find success/Talent is never enough/To be a talent—plus person/More factors than talent.
小题2:He should make good choices./He should apply good choices to talent.
小题3:Belief.Relationship.Responsibility.Teamword.(答出其中一个即可)
小题4:To increase something as much as possible.
小题5:Open. |
解析
试题分析：短文大意:这篇短文主要论述了天赋与成功之间的关系以及如何提升自己的天赋的问题.
小题1:根据第二段Dr. John Maxwell has written a new book to explain that 描述，可知that指代的是前文第一段叙述的内容，故答：Having talent is not enough to find success/Talent is never enough/To be a talent—plus person/More factors than talent.想要成功仅仅有天赋是不够的。
小题2:根据短文第二段He says that the only way to find success in life is to apply good choices to talent and rise above the crowd. 描述，可知想要成为一个更有天赋的人,他需要做出更好的选择.故答：He should make good choices./He should apply good choices to talent.
小题3:根据短文第三段including Belief lifts talent, Relationships influence talent, Responsibility strengthens talent,Teamwork multiplies talent, etc.描述，可知这些不同的选择有：Belief.Relationship.Responsibility.Teamword.(答出其中一个即可)
小题4:联系后一句Wrong choices will minimize their talent, preventing them from rising to higher levels in life.描述，可知这个单词指的是，提升自己的天赋。故答To increase something as much as possible.尽可能的提升某事/物.
小题5:本句问的是你想不想成为一个更有天赋的人,为什么或者为什么不?并给出一两条理由.答案符合题意即可. |
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“When I grow up, I want to be...”
Almost all of us have thought about, or been asked to think about, our future careers. Our answers may differ greatly. Even now your aspirations may have changed from when you were in primary school.
However, it seems career options aren’t only based on personal taste. In a survey carried out by Teens, doctors, lawyers, and bankers were some of most popular careers that people said they hoped to follow. This is in line with a similar survey carried out in the UK in May 2011 by job website monster. Co.uk, in which medicine was the top choice among UK teenagers aged between 13 and 17.
Medicine and law are two of the oldest and best known professions. Their prestige (威望) may come from the fact that doctors and lawyers are some of the most esteemed members of society, and they make good money. Joining these high-profile professions is often seen as a sign of upward social mobility.
It is equally unsurprising that banking is now one of the most common career choices. Youngsters worldwide think of banking and see the money rolling in. Wealth is increasingly becoming one of the most important indicators of a successful career. British young men list the UK tycoon Alan Sugar, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg as their top role models “for their wealth”. Just as Chinese teenagers see being a banker as a good and fun pathway to “wealth”.
However, not every child has the makings of doctor, lawyer, or banker. They are those who see fulfillment and happiness in other areas, and many teenagers dare to ink more individuality into their career options. As the Teens’ survey discovered, a variety of unconventional jobs---coffee shop owner, gourmet(美食家)，waiter at a fast food restaurant---are among teenagers’ career choices. They can be equally interesting and rewarding jobs.
With every choice comes responsibility and challenge, and all career paths require specific education and training, you have to learn to balance optimism and confidence with being realistic about your particular talents and skills.
小题1:What is the passage mainly about?| A．Careers in teenagers’ mind. | | B．Choosing a good job is very important. | | C．Teenagers in the UK like doctors. | | D．The choice of career needs challenge. |
小题2:What is the top career choice among UK teenagers aged between 13 and 17 according to the article?| A．Medicine | B．Law | C．Bank | D．Education |
小题3:According to the article, all of the following are the benefits of being a doctor except_______.| A．respect from others | B．the oldest profession | | C．high pay | D．upward social mobility. |
小题4:What do youngsters think is increasingly becoming one of the most important indicators of a successful career?| A．Prestige | B．Fulfillment | C．Happiness | D．Wealth |
小题5:What can we learn from the last paragraph?| A．According to your particular talents and skills, you can choose your favorite career. | | B．Specific education and training can help get a good job. | | C．Whatever career you choose, you should balance optimism and confidence with being realistic about your particular talents and skills. | | D．Responsibility is the most important when you choose a good job. |
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I’m not so sure I like my friends any more. I used to like them-to be honest. We’d have lunch, talk on the phone or exchange emails, and they all seemed normal enough. But then came Face Book, and I was introduced to a sad fact: many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.
Today my friends show off the more unpleasant aspects of their personalities via FaceBook. No longer hidden, they’re thrown in my face like TV commercials -unavoidable and endless advertisements for the worst of their personalities.
Take Fred. If you were to have lunch with him, you’d find him warm, and self-effacing（谦逊的）.Read his FaceBook and you’ll realize he’s an unbearable, food-obsessed boring man. He’d pause to have a cup of coffee on his way to save a drowning man-and then write about it.
Take Andy. You won’t find a smarter CEO anywhere, but now he’s a CEO without a company to run. So he plays Mafia Wars on FaceBook. He’s doing well-level 731. Thanks to FaceBook, I know he’s playing about 18 hours a day. Andy, you’ve run four companies-and this is how you spend your downtime? What happned to golf?What happened to getting another job?
Take Liz. She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it. And then comes Chris who likes to post at least 20 times a day on every website he can find, so I get to read his thoughts twice, once on FaceBook and once on Twitter.
In real life, I don’t see these sides of people. Face to face, my friends show me their best. They’re nice, smart people. But face to FaceBook, my friends is like a blind date which goes horribly wrong.
I’m left with a dilemma. Who is my real friend?Is it the Liz I have lunch with or the anti-vaccine madman on FaceBook? Is it the Fred I can grab a sandwich with or the Fred who weeps if he’s at a party and the wine isn’t up to his standard?
小题1: Who is opposed to the flu vaccine in the text?小题2:What’s Andy probably busy in doing now?| A．He’s running his company | | B．He’s playing golf all day | | C．He’s looking for another job | | D．He’s playing computer games |
小题3:According to the text, FaceBook tends to _______. | A．present another side of people | | B．offer some foods for free | | C．show endless advertisements | | D．get you to more parties |
小题4:The text is developed mainly by _____. | A．giving examples | B．following the time order | | C．listing figures | D．raising questions |
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Loren Gladstone of Toronto is 58, but thinking over how to bequeath (遗赠) his digital property(财产). Doing the paperwork after his parents" death was a challenge. “When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is，” he says. As a software developer, his virtual property is both valuable and vital to his business. That reflects a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and emotional value. But testamentary (遗嘱) laws offer confusing and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting (继承) them.
Digital property may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over ￡9 billion ($14 billion). A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5，000 yuan($790) of digital property. And value does not lie only in money.“Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries，”says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital property.
Service providers have different rules—and few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail (run by Google) will provide copies of e-mails to an executor (遗嘱执行人). Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a license which can be abolished on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.
This has led to cases to court in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, an army man killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another American mother whose son had died could use her dead son"s password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have made laws giving executors control over the social-networking accounts of dead users.
But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives to read their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with a clear provision in a will.
But laws, wills and password safes may be contrary to the providers" terms of service, especially when the executor is in one country and the data in another. Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
小题1:Why does Loren begin to think over how to bequeath his digital property at the age of 58?| A．Because he is afraid his children don"t know what paper is. | | B．Because there"s no complete law dealing with digital property. | | C．Because his digital property is of great value and importance. | | D．Because he is worried his children will be taken to court. |
小题2:Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?| A．Digital property is assessed in terms of nothing except money. | | B．No laws in America have been made to deal with digital property. | | C．The relatives may read the e－mail of the dead without permission. | | D．Lawyers can make money through cases about digital property. |
小题3:Facebook, Google and Apple have a similar rule that ________．| A．users are offered accounts used by nobody else except users themselves | | B．relatives of the dead may close an account or use it at their own will | | C．the executor may enter the e－mail and read it by themselves at any time | | D．the data downloaded by the dead will be copied and then deleted from net |
小题4:Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?| A．Digital Information | B．Testamentary Laws | | C．Deathless Data | D．Vital Property |
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Pretending to be happy can actually make you more miserable — especially if you’re a woman, according to a new study.
The research found that women suffered more than men when pretending to be happy. Psychologist Dr. Brent Scott, who led the study, said employers should take note because forcing workers to smile when dealing with the public can backfire. He said, “Smiling for the sake of smiling can lead to emotional exhaustion, and that’s bad for the organization.”
Dr. Scott said the research showed customer-service workers who “fake smile” throughout the day worsen their mood and then withdraw from work, so their productivity drops. He added, “Bosses may think that getting their staff to smile is good for the organization, but that’s not necessarily the case.” Dr. Scott, assistant professor of management at Michigan State University, analyzed a group of bus drivers during a two- week period.
The study is one of the first of its kind to examine emotional displays over a period of time and compare the different effect that has on men and women. His team examined the effects of surface acting — or fake smiling — compared to what was termed “deep acting”, or cultivating(培养) positive emotions by recalling pleasant memories.
Dr. Scott said, “Women are harmed more by surface acting, meaning their mood worsens even more than the men and they withdraw more from work. However, they are helped more by deep acting, which means their mood improves more.”
Although “deep acting” seems to improve mood in the short-term, Dr. Scott said it’s not a long-term solution to feeling unhappy.
He said, “You’re trying to cultivate positive emotions, but at the end of the day you may not feel like yourself anymore.”
小题1:What does the underlined word “backfire” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．Have the opposite effect. | B．Lead to conflict. | | C．Drive people mad. | D．Help a lot. |
小题2:What can we learn from the passage?| A．Surface acting is good for organizations. | | B．Men benefit more from deep acting than women. | | C．Fake smiling causes more harm to women than men. | | D．Recalling good memories is a long-term solution to feeling down. |
小题3:The findings of the research might serve as a warning to _______.| A．employees | B．employers | C．researchers | D．customers. |
小题4: What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Solution to feeling unhappy | | B．How to cultivate positive emotions | | C．How to improve workers’ productivity | | D．Fake smiling makes you miserable |
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At one time it was the dream of many little girls to become a nurse. Today, however, America is facing its worst nurse shortage since World War I. Recently about 2,000,000 nurses are needed and 60 percent of all hospitals in the US have shortages, large enough to threaten the quality of care provided. The demand for nurses spreads widely throughout the nursing field.
What has become of these women in white? The answer lies in not one but several causes. One possibility is the fact that women have greater career options. In the past, women who chose to work outside the home had two basic choices: nursing or teaching. Today, more women than ever are in the workforce, but their options have greatly increased. There are women doctors, lawyers, firefighters and police officers. In fact, women today are found in nearly every field of work. Nursing has been left behind, as women move on to jobs with higher pay and greater status. A woman or man in the nursing field is often looked down upon as“merely a nurse”. Teachers many be also at fault. Many high school students are actually away from nursing, told by teachers that they are“too bright to be a nurse”.
Americans are living longer than ever and requiring more medical attention. In fact, the number of elderly patients has almost doubled in the past twenty years. Obviously a larger population requires more nurses. AIDS and other diseases have caused more and more people to need nursing care. Usually fatal (致命的) diseases mean long hospital stay, that is to say, more nurses are needed to care for these patients. It is estimated that the demand for nurses will be doubled the supply in the coming ten years.
小题1:What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?| A．How nurses have been looked down upon. | | B．Why women have chosen many different jobs. | | C．What has caused nurse shortage. | | D．How teachers have influenced their students. |
小题2:The Passage tells that high school teachers are at fault for .| A．not mentioning the worst nurse shortage in the US | | B．introducing jobs with higher pay and greater status to their students | | C．not asking the government to raise the nurses’ payment | | D．persuading the students not to be nurses |
小题3:The author writes the Passage in order to .| A．describe the unequal treatment of women in the US | | B．warn people to pay more attention to the nursing problem | | C．tell us women’s free choices of jobs today | | D．call on women to choose different kinds of jobs |
小题4:It can be inferred from the Passage that .| A．high school students think themselves too bright to be nurses | | B．women in the US have greater career choices than those in other countries | | C．of all the hospitals in the world 60 percent more nurses are badly needed | | D．nursing used to be a popular job among women |
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