Hawking"s Five Easy Steps for Making Yourself a Genius As we all know，Stephen H
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Hawking"s Five Easy Steps for Making Yourself a Genius
As we all know，Stephen Hawking writes the book A Brief History of Time that explains the origin of the universe. The book spent 147 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List and has sold 10 million copies. He is，most agree，very smart.
In his recently published autobiography My Brief History，Hawking offers five life lessons on how to become a genius.
1)Don’t miss opportunities by being too cool
“We showed an air of complete boredom and the feeling that nothing was worth making an effort for. One result of my illness has been to change all that. When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do. ”Seize the moment，as Oxford types would say.
2)Keep it simple
When writing A Brief History of Time，he tried to make science understandable for the rest of us. “I was sure that nearly everyone is interested in how the universe operates，but most people cannot follow mathematical equations(数学公式). ”He has trouble with them，too. “This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down，but mainly because I don"t have an inborn feeling for equations. My aim in the book was to describe these mental images in words. It is such an easy book that everybody can understand it.” The moral：You don"t have to be a genius to know everything.
3）Have fun
Hawking has a long history of being a joker，and he has placed lots of bets with other scientists on the nature of black holes. One was with Cal-Tech scientist John Preskill. After paying off his bet by giving Preskill a baseball encyclopedia，Hawking wrote，“but maybe I should have just given him the ashes. ”So lighten up! Geniuses like bad jokes too.
4) Always look for a silver lining (even if you are seriously ill)
Hawking"s disease has slowly robbed him of the ability to walk，move his arms，even speak. But，Hawking says，“in some ways I guess my disability has been an assist：I haven"t had to lecture or teach students, and I haven"t had to sit in meetings. So I have been able to devote myself completely to research.”In other words，Hawking was given lemons，and he made Champagne.
5)Don’t work too hard at school
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小题1:The passage tells us the facts about A Brief History of Time EXCEPT that ________.| A．it explained the origin of the universe | | B．it has sold 10 million copies up to now | | C．it spent 147 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List | | D．it included Hawking"s five life lessons on how to become a genius |
小题2:According to the passage，which of the following statements is guiding you to be a genius?| A．Place lots of bets with your friends. | | B．Seize the moment to learn everything. | | C．Find something good even in bad situations. | | D．Get to know everything including math equations. |
小题3:Hawking shows his viewpoint by ____________. | A．making comparisons | B．quoting a famous saying | | C．listing the numbers and equations | D．talking about his own experience |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:D |
解析
试题分析：这篇文章是《时间简史》的作者霍金写的另外一本书《我自己的简史》中的内容，书中霍金告诉读者成为天才的5个道理。
小题1:细节题：从第一段的句子：As we all know，Stephen Hawking writes the book A Brief History of Time that explains the origin of the universe. The book spent 147 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List and has
sold 10 million copies. 可知ABC都是对的，而从第二段的句子：In his recently published autobiography My Brief History，Hawking offers five life lessons on how to become a genius.可知他给出5个人生的经验是在My Brief History，里面的，所以选D。
小题2:推理题：从第四个经验：Always look for a silver lining (even if you are seriously ill)可知霍金建议人们要在逆境中找到好的事情，选C
小题3:推理题：从每个经验下面的描述可以看出霍金是用自己的人生的故事来说明这些道理的，选D |
举一反三
It does not have to be January 1st to give yourself a chance to make the most out of your day. Every day is a new day and a fresh start to learn, grow, develop your strengths, free yourself from past regrets or hurts, and move forward older and wiser. Every day gives you a chance to reinvent (重新审视) yourself. It is never too late to change things that are not working in your life.
Each day is a new beginning and a piece of blank paper. How would you like to create your day? What would you like to paint on it? If you wake up in a negative mind, you are more likely to paint a dark picture throughout the day, and your picture will not show hope, happiness and joy.
If you take each day to think actively, and have a positive intention（意图） for how you would like to create your day, how would your life be different? What can daily positive intentions do for you? Every day you will give yourself the gift of an “attitude of gratitude(感恩)”.
Each day is a chance to look at things in a different way. You can experience each day in the beauty of the world－and the beauty of you who are in it! You find yourself changing from “I can’t” to “I can”. With a focus on positive intentions, you feel you are full of power and more like a “winner” than a “loser”.
You pay more attention to the present, and will be more likely to live fully in the present each moment of each day. After all, the past is a great place to visit, but you don’t want to live there! So how about starting each day taking a moment to think of a positive intention for the day?
小题1:The first paragraph mainly tells us .| A．We should make every day a new start. | | B．January 1st is the most important day. | | C．Learning is helpful in reinventing ourselves. | | D．We needn’t change ourselves at all. |
小题2: If you have daily positive intentions, you will .| A．get a positive result | B．have a busy life | | C．get gifts from others | D．be a complete loser |
小题3:From the passage we can learn that .| A．past regrets or hurts can make you older and wiser. | | B．think actively and you will be a winner, not a loser. | | C．the present is not where you should live for ever. | | D．positive intentions for each day are of great help. |
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Have you ever not wanted to do something so badly that you would rather die than go? Well that’s how I about joining Madcaps, a mothers and daughters club assisting philanthropies（慈善事业）.But now I believe that you open up your mind to things because eventually you might end up enjoying it.
“It’s a waste of time”, I said when my mom told I had to join Madcaps, and then when she said I had to at a homeless shelter I thought this just could not be .
We got there late, of course, and the security guard led us to the kitchen we ran into 48 other fellow Madcaps members. Since I’m so socially awkward（糟糕的） I had met only one person at a pool party, earlier this year. I looked around for her but she was not there. Damn, I was ! When the man in charge came out and asked for 3 mothers to work outside the to clean up the plates, my mom just happened to volunteer leaving me to food with others.
Soon the families started to walk in and a little girl walked up and pointed to the food I was I gave her the cold sandwich, she nodded in a form of saying , and then walked to join her family at the large table.
As she walked away I thought of how much I I get to go the top schools. I have a great house and I have a warm meal every night. It that little girl to make me realize how lucky I am. After that moment I had a change of . Now, I love Madcaps and don’t miss one meeting, I have being socially awkward and now have many friends. And this year I am sure I will do the required 20 hours of philanthropies.
I believe that if you have an mind about things you can accomplish more and become a better rounded person. I believe sometimes you can make a difference just doing one thing you don’t want to do .
| 小题1: | | A．cared | B．joked | C．felt | D．doubted |
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| 小题2: | | A．should | B．would | C．may | D．can |
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| 小题4: | | A．report | B．live | C．donate | D．volunteer |
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| 小题5: | | A．better | B．sooner | C．easier | D．worse |
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| 小题6: | | A．where | B．when | C．until | D．because |
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| 小题7: | | A．suddenly | B．occasionally | C．hardly | D．normally |
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| 小题8: | | A．shy | B．late | C．alone | D．hopeless |
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| 小题9: | | A．kitchen | B．house | C．club | D．shelter |
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| 小题10: | | A．pack | B．purchase | C．serve | D．bake |
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| 小题11: | | A．poor | B．homeless | C．vluntary | D．local |
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| 小题12: | | A．playing with | B．putting away | C．looking for | D．holding out |
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| 小题13: | | A．hello | B．sorry | C．thanks | D．okay |
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| 小题14: | | A．had | B．earned | C．achieved | D．did |
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| 小题15: | | A．moved | B．took | C．helped | D．encouraged |
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| 小题16: | | A．heart | B．luck | C．identity | D．taste |
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| 小题17: | | A．believed in | B．learnt from | C．got over | D．thought about |
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| 小题18: | | A．more than | B．nothing but | C．anything but | D．less than |
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| 小题19: | | A．intelligent | B．abstract | C．empty | D．open |
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We all have our ways of marking time. As a photographer, my life is measured from one story to the next. My oldest son was born in the middle of a long story about the Endangered Species Act. My daughter came along with a pack of gray wolves.
Twenty stories later, though, it’s the story in Alaska that I’ll remember best. It was the story about the loss of wilderness — and the story during which my wife Kathy got cancer. That’s the one that made time stand still. I stopped taking pictures on the day when she found that tumor (肿瘤). Cruelly, it was Thanksgiving. By Christmas, she had become very weak. Some days she was so sick she couldn’t watch TV.
Early examination saves time. But ours was not early. By the time you can feel it yourself, it’s often bigger than the doctor want it to be.
Cancer is a thief. It steals time. Our days are already short with worry. Then comes this terrible disease, unfair as storm at harvest time. But cancer also has the power to change us, for good. We learn to simplify, enjoying what we have instead of feeling sorry for what we don’t. Cancer even made me a better father. My work had made me a stranger to my three kids. But now I pay attention to what really matters. This is not a race. This is a new way of life and new way of seeing, all from the cancer.
In the end each of us has so little time. We have less of it than we can possibly imagine. And even though it turns out that Kathy’s cancer has not spread, and her prognosis (诊断) is good. We try to make it all count now, enjoying every part of every day.
I’ve picked up my camera again. I watch the sky, searching for beautiful light. When winter storms come, Kathy and I gather our children and take the time to catch snowflakes (雪花) on our tongues. After all, this is good. This is what we’re living for.
小题1:As a photographer, the author used to ______.| A．leave his daughter with a pack of gray wolves | | B．express his love for his family in a special way | | C．miss a great many important historical moments | | D．devote much more to his career than his family |
小题2:Why did the author decide to stop taking pictures?| A．To cure his own disease. | B．To spend more time with his wife. | | C．To seek a better position. | D．To leave the wilderness alone. |
小题3:What is the biggest change the cancer has brought to the author?| A．He treasured every bit of time with his family. | | B．He has become a stranger to his children. | | C．He takes his work more seriously. | | D．He focuses more on medical care. |
小题4:The author and his family catch snowflakes on their tongues probably because ______.| A．the snowflakes taste very good | | B．snowflakes are what they feed on | | C．they regard that as a way to enjoy life | | D．there is beautiful light in the snowflakes |
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When it comes to friends, people always know this old saying——A friend in need is a friend indeed. The best friend a man has in the world may him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good reputation, may our faith. A man may the money he has. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man’s reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are ready to fall on their knees to do us when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of hatred when settles its cloud upon our heads. The one unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never him, the one that never proves or distrusted, is his dog.
A man’s dog stands by him in richness and in , in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the cold wind blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to ; he will lick the wounds and sores that come from encounter with the roughness of the world. He will guard the sleep of his master he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he . When wealth and reputation fall to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journeys through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth, a deserted person in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his . And when the last of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace, and his body is in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends their ways, there by the grave will the dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.
| 小题1: | | A．turn to | B．submit to | C．turn against | D．look up |
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| 小题2: | | A．brought up | B．come up | C．grown up | D．catch up |
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| 小题3: | | A．restore | B．betray | C．keep | D．strengthen |
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| 小题4: | | A．gain | B．lose | C．earn | D．donate |
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| 小题5: | | A．honor | B．favor | C．credit | D．good |
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| 小题6: | | A．shadow | B．success | C．failure | D．depression |
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| 小题7: | | A．accurately | B．deliberately | C．equally | D．absolutely |
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| 小题8: | | A．appreciates | B．envies | C．admires | D．deserts |
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| 小题9: | | A．ungrateful | B．unfortunate | C．faithful | D．considerate |
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| 小题10: | | A．poverty | B．progress | C．welfare | D．wealth |
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| 小题11: | | A．host’s | B．master’s | C．landlord’s | D．chief’s |
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| 小题12: | | A．serve | B．fetch | C．offer | D．order |
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| 小题13: | | A．only if | B．in case | C．even if | D．as if |
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| 小题14: | | A．flees | B．remains | C．ignores | D．persists |
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| 小题15: | | A．serving | B．protecting | C．spoiling | D．accompanying |
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| 小题16: | | A．enemies | B．masters | C．friends | D．acquaintances |
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| 小题17: | | A．sight | B．scenery | C．scene | D．view |
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| 小题18: | | A．buried | B．hung | C．thrown | D．laid |
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| 小题19: | | A．force | B．lose | C．pursue | D．find |
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| 小题20: | | A．mean | B．general | C．selfish | D．Noble |
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John Smith，an office worker，lives in Washington．He inherited (继承) a million dollars when he was 23，but he wasn’t happy at all．When his college friends were looking for their jobs，he didn’t have to．Jack decided to living a simple life like everyone else．He gave $l0,000 of his money to a charity (慈善机构) to help poor children live a better life．Today he is 36．He still wears cheap shoes and clothes and drives a small car only，but he is very happy．
Up to now John has helped some children from poor countries all over the world，by sending them each $200 a month．The money was used for the children’s study, food, medicine and clothing．John receives a report each year on the children’s progress．They can write to each other, but usually the children do not speak English．
When John first heard about these children，he wanted to help them．“It was nothing special,” he said．“Until I went to these countries and met the children I was helping，I didn’t know anything about their life．” Once John went to meet a little girl in Africa．He said that the meeting was very exciting．“When I met her．I felt very ,very happy．"he said．“And I saw that the money was used for a good cause．It brought me happiness．I want to do everything I can to go on helping those children.”
小题1:John didn’t need to look for a job ___________.| A．before he went to college | B．after he went to Africa | | C．because he got a lot of money | D．before he received a report |
小题2:John has sent them each $200 a month to help some poor children _______．| A．near Washington | B．in European countries | | C．only in Africa | D．throughout the world |
小题3:John learned about the children’s progress by ________.| A．visiting them each year | B．getting a report every year | | C．staying with them | D．talking to them in English |
小题4:The underlined words “for a good cause ”means“________” in Chinese．小题5:What’s the main idea of the story?| A．Help others，and you will feel happy． | | B．It’s necessary to write letters to poor children． | | C．Live a simple life，and you can give others help． | | D．It’s the most important to help the children in Africa |
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