So much to do, so little time. So much information, so little time to read
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So much to do, so little time. So much information, so little time to read it. In this age there is more information than ever before. There is not enough time to read everything we want to read. However, you can consume more information in shorter time through speed-reading. This article will not make you read 3 000 words per minute, but it will show you how to increase your speed significantly. You will also learn the basic techniques of speed-reading, along with the do"s and don"ts of speed-reading. When you first learned to read, you would say the word out aloud and sound it out. Then you might whisper the word because people can become annoyed when you read aloud. The stage you are now at is saying the word in your head. Most people tend to read this way. Saying the word in your head will cut your reading speed tremendously(极大地) . How do you calculate your reading speed? The speed is measured by how many words per minute you can read. Get some reading material, preferably a book. Find out how many words are on the page. Time yourself for one minute. Start your timer and start reading. When the timer beeps, stop. If you counted 500 words on the page and you read half of the page, and then you are probably reading at 250 words per minute. The first thing about speed-reading is looking at the word and recognizing it. Don"t say the word in your mind, just look at it and recognize its importance. Later you will recognize clumps of four words or more to increase your speed. This is the first and most important step in speed reading. The next step is technique. As with any other skill, speed-reading requires technique. You should first be sitting up straight with your book flat on a horizontal(水平的) surface, such as a table desk. Next, you should be able to see the entire page. This is necessary if you want to recognize clumps of words. Lastly, you should be focused. It"s hard to read with a lot of noise. Find a quiet place to read. This will help your understanding of the text. You need something to guide your eyes while reading. That"s right, you should use your hand. Remember when you were little, you would read using your finger. That is a great technique, only now you"re using your hand to underline each line, move your finger smoothly across the page. No need to go rush, start out slow. Keep your eyes focused on the words as you recognize them while using your hand as a guide. This will increase your speed. The third step is practice. Practice makes perfect. Set time intervals(间歇). Read using different techniques, but make sure you understand what you"re reading. |
1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text? |
A. Now there is limited information than ever before. B. Now conditions ask people to use less time to know more information. C. Now people can read what they like. D. Now the less you read, the more time you will spend. |
2. What is the subject discussed in the text? |
A. What speed-reading is. B. Why we need speed-reading. C. Now it is much information time. D. People should practice speed-reading in different kinds of ways. |
3. The underlined sentence "you should be focused" in the fifth paragraph means that . |
A. a person should devote his attention to it while reading B. your feelings will be hurt while reading C. a person should smooth away difficulties while he reads D. you should pay attention to your faults while you are reading |
答案
1-3: BAA |
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Stop wasting your time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings.Instead, realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born.Only you have the power to make those seeds grow. The seeds and the power to grow them are contained in the human mind.Success is a choice but not a chance.You can be a success if only you make the right choice. You cannot be successful without first developing yourselfesteem (自尊). Your level of selfesteem is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low selfesteem do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their lives.They are leaves tossed (摇摆) by the winds of chance brought about with any sudden change in the weather. You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe that you are responsible for whatever happens in your life.Failures think that everything happens by accident while successful people realize that they are responsible. Everything happens as a result of something.If we can identify the cause, we can control the effect. We are responsible for what we consciously choose to accept and believe.Thoughts and beliefs cause everything.Our attitudes and actions are a result of habits ingrained in us over a period of time.One generally rises to the level that one expects.We are responsible for setting our expectations.Our success depends upon our level of confidence.We are responsible for either reinforcing good habits or kicking bad habits and consciously replacing them with consistently practiced good habits. If you associate with positivethinking people, you are definitely going to achieve success.On the contrary, the opposite happens.We are responsible for finding, planting, and nurturing (培育) the seeds that contain future victory, born from setbacks. In short, in all areas of your life, whether they are financial, physical, emotional, or spiritual, you are responsible.Once you recognize this, accept it, and firmly believe it, you are on the road to success.
1. Losers would think that________.
A. success is the result of hard work B. working hard will lead to success C. they fail only because of bad luck D. they don"t make efforts to succeed
2. It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that________.
A. whether we will succeed depends on our attitudes B. developing confidence is the key to future success C. thoughts and beliefs are the result of creative mind D. setting our expectations is essential before taking action
3. The last paragraph serves as________.
A. the proof of the author"s point B. the conclusion of the argument C. an introduction to another topic D. a comparison between two views
4. Which is the best title of the text?
A. Success is a choice B. The secrets of success C. Develop our confidence D. How to achieve success |
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When we think of leadership, we often think of strength and power.But what are these really, and how do they operate? Leadership today is not about forcing others to do things.Even if this is possible, it is shortterm, and tends to produce unexpected and unwanted results.If you order someone to do something against their will, they may do it because they feel they have to, 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 connect 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 does no good to 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 will become fully devoted to the projects and provide some of their own motivation.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 important factor 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 relationship with people around you, which is the key to the leadership skills.
1. The writer thinks that it is not________for us to connect leadership with strength and power.
A. possible B. necessary C. easy D. effective
2. People may NOT be working hard when________.
A. they"re regarded as human beings B. they like their leaders C. money is taken as the most important D. leaders understand the way things work
3. From the passage, we can conclude that________is the key to making a good leader.
A. developing one"s emotional intelligence B. in fluencing others in one"s own way C. producing some unexpected results D. having confidence in one"s ability
4. This passage is most helpful to those who________.
A. have strength and power B. are going to make a speech C. would like to be leaders D. are to be excellent employees |
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How Much to Tip You"re out to dinner.The food is delicious and the service is fine.You decide to leave a big fat tip. Why? The answer may not be as simple as you think. Tipping, psychologists have found, is not just about service.Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiter"s choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bill"s total.Even how much waiters remind customers of themselves can determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night. "Studies before have shown that mimicry (模仿) brings into positive feelings for the mimicker, "wrote Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor."These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimicks them." So Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups.He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, "Coming up!"Those in the other half were instructed to repeat the orders and preferences back to the customers.Rick van Baaren then compared their takehome pay.The results were clear-it pays to mimic your customer.The copycat (模仿者) waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group. Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at Washington University in St.Louis, found the generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill.After research on the 1,000 tips left for waiters, cabdrivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers" bills went up.In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau (稳定期) when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100. "That"s also a point of tipping, " Green says."You have to give a little extra to the cabdriver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you.If they weren"t there, you"d never get any service.So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there."
1. Apart from service, how many other factors affecting the customers"tipping are mentioned in the passage?
A. 1. B. 2. C. 3. D. 4.
2. These studies show that________.
A. tipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiters B. people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them C. the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as those who don"t mimick others D. mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad
3. According to the passage, which of the following will be likely to show the right change of the tip percentages?
4. We know from the passage that the writer seems to________.
A. object to Mr Green"s idea about tipping B. think part of Mr Green"s explanation is reasonable C. give his generous tip to waiters very often D. support the opinions of Mr Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping |
短文填词 As we all know, most of the students feel nervous when taking an exam.There is no________(疑问) that exams are important to us, but it"s m________important to have a right attitude towards them.As a matter of fact, exams are no more than________means of evaluating.Why worry about the results? Only________studying hard every day and________(准备) for exams in advance can we avoid suffering from the________(压力) of exams.We"d better go out for a walk________do some outdoor exercise before exams.Besides, having enough sleep canf________us with energy and make it possible for us to________well in the exam.A hot bath or a cup of hot milk may help those________(感觉) stressed out before an exam. |
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"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and let him know that you trust him." These words are from the black American educator, Booker Washington.He was saying that, "If you want people to grow up, you have to stop treating them like children." In America, families are close but children are encouraged to be independent, to make their own decisions, even at a very early age.It"s not unusual for a child of seven to be given an allowance (津贴) every week.The child is encouraged to save some of the money but he or she can spend it on whatever they choose, for example, buying clothes, school supplies or CDs.Some teenagers even have their own credit cards!That"s a big responsibility since even adults are tempted tooverspend when they have credit cards. From an early age, American children are asked for their opinions and they are included in family decisionmaking.At the dinner table, teenagers will be listened to on any topic, from politics to buying a new family car or where the family will go on vacation.In this way, teenagers are getting practice in becoming individuals:they are learning how to stand on their own two feet. Many Chinese young people are becoming almost as interested as American teens in searching for independence.They want to express those qualities that make them unique human beings.You can see this in the way they dress, the music they listen to and the friends they choose."Super Girl" Li Yuchun caught the imagination of Chinese teenagers on the "Super Girl" television contest.She was not the traditional "nice, young Chinese girl". With her short, spiky hair and boylike clothes, she was telling everyone that she was different.She had the courage to be her own person and to stand on her own two feet...and she won! There is an old saying, "Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him and then choose that way with all his strength." If you do this, step by step, over a period of time, you may find that you have become the person you always wanted to be.
1. The passage is intended to encourage the youth to________.
A. save money for useful things B. become independent C. express their great ambitions D. make important decisions
2. A child of seven is given an allowance so that he can______.
A. be accepted as a popular guy B. learn to decide how to use money C. overspend money without care D. have school supplies of his own
3. The author implies that many Chinese children________.
A. are more independent than Americans B. should become interested in America C. are happy with their present situation D. are not satisfied to be nice, quiet ones
4. The main idea of the last paragraph is________.
A. that we should do things step by step B. why we should understand our desires C. what we should plan for our own life D. how we can manage to realize our dreams |
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