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I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn. I heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100,000 a year. A business consultant who specializes in the medical trade was telling me how many doctors and dentists struggle financially. It was this business consultant who gave me the phrase, “They are one skill away from great wealth．”
There is an old saying that goes, "Job means "just over broke（***）"．And unfortunately, I would say that the saying applies to millions of people．Because schools do not think financial intelligence is intelligence, most workers "live within their means"．They work and they pay the bills．Instead I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn．
When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald"s?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald"s makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald"s is excellent at business systems. The world is filled with talented poor people. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger.
小题1:The author mentions the mechanic in the first paragraph to show that ．| A．he is just one of the talented people | | B．he is ready to help others | | C．he has a sharp sense of hearing | | D．he knows little about car repairing |
小题2:The underlined part in the third paragraph can be best replaced by____ ．| A．spend more than they can afford | | B．1ive within what they earn | | C．1ive in their own circle | | D．do in their own way |
小题3:Why do talented people earn so little according to the author?| A．They don’t work hard enough． | | B．They have no specialized skills． | | C．They don"t make full use of their talents． | | D．They lack financial intelligence． |
小题4:The main purpose of the author is to tell us____ ．| A．how young people can find a satisfactory job | | B．What schools should teach about finance | | C．why so many talented people are poor | | D．how McDonald"s makes much money |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C |
解析
试题分析：本文叙述了许多有才华的人却挣的很少很原因。作者通过汽车修理工很快修好了他的车，感到汽车修理工是有才华的人，但是他挣得少。在美国很多有才华的人挣得都很少。原因就是他们没有金融才干和商业知识，不能更好的把自己推销出去，只会挣得只够花的。
小题1:推理判断题。根据第一段的The sad truth is that great talent is not enough．可知作者认为自己的才能不足，因此觉得那个汽车修理工是一个有才华的人。故选A。
小题2:词义猜测题。根据第三段的They work and they pay the bills．可知很多人工作了，却付账单，等于是说工作赚的钱又花出去了，生活的花费不要超过自己所赚的钱的范围，要在这个以内。故选B。
小题3:推理判断题。根据最后一段的They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger.可知很多人挣的少是因为没有金融知识和推销能力。故选D。
小题4:推理判断题。根据第二段的I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn可知全文是围绕着为什么这么多有才华的人却挣的这么少来展开的。故选C。 |
举一反三
I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I"ve that the best way to do it is (to) let go of past failures. But that"s not all. One can never fully today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend Gable one afternoon at the actor"s home. She brought along her son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He he was racing those cars around a great track, which in was an imaginary circle around a golden statue. The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to , the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this？” to the Oscar.
“Sure,” he smiled. “It"s yours.”
The horrified mother . “Put that back immediately！”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn"t mean anything to me; it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to , rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ？Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the of the future better than the history of the past，” said Thomas Jefferson. I . After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.
| 小题1: | | A．discovered | B．inferred | C．preferred | D．worried |
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| 小题2: | | A．spend | B．live | C．affect | D．enjoy |
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| 小题3: | | A．struggle | B．work | C．succeed | D．concentrate |
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| 小题4: | | A．story | B．fact | C．idea | D．figure |
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| 小题5: | | A．wrote | B．told | C．knew | D．heard |
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| 小题6: | | A．saw | B．recognized | C．met | D．visited |
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| 小题7: | | A．careful | B．small | C．lonely | D．clever |
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| 小题8: | | A．pretended | B．believed | C．insisted | D．suggested |
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| 小题9: | | A．fact | B．case | C．turn | D．need |
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| 小题10: | | A．cared | B．asked | C．won | D．looked |
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| 小题12: | | A．running | B．getting | C．pointing | D．shouting |
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| 小题13: | | A．shouted | B．noticed | C．suffered | D．breathed |
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| 小题14: | | A．selling | B．keeping | C．earning | D．sharing |
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| 小题15: | | A．special | B．comfortable | C．expensive | D．necessary |
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| 小题17: | | A．difficulties | B．events | C．failures | D．achievements |
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| 小题18: | | A．time | B．future | C．body | D．brain |
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| 小题19: | | A．idea | B．meaning | C．dreams | D．thoughts |
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| 小题20: | | A．obey | B．permit | C．wish | D．agree |
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There’s no danger of 88-year-old Harry Ward forgetting his wife Doris’s Valentine’s Day card – the couple still use the same one he bought her 70 years ago.
When 17-year-old Harry Ward presented Doris with a Valentine’s Day card as he boarded a train to join the wartime effort on February 14, 1941, he must have been fairly confident about his affections(钟爱). After all the couple had been dating since they met in a café three months earlier.
But little can he have imagined that 70 years on, not only would he still be happy about having married Doris, but that every year she would present him with the very same card he gave her that Valentine’s Day. “I bring it out of the cupboard and put it on our mantelpiece（壁炉台）every Valentine’s Day,” she said. “It’s a special to me now as it was 70 years ago. Harry has never bought me one since, because I have this one every year.”
They first met in a café. “Harry was in the café drinking and he said hello. He asked me my name and we got talking happily. He offered to walk me to the bus stop but when we got outside, a bombing raid（突然袭击）had started and we had to run to a nearby air-raid shelter（防空洞）,” Doris said.
Mr. Ward said,“I knew Doris was the one for me the moment I met her. I gave her the Valentine’s card then and she is still my Valentine now.” Mrs. Ward’s card is not the only thing that has endured the passing of time.
“Harry is quite romantic and we are as still in love as the day he first gave me this card,”Dorris said.
小题1:When did the couple first meet?| A．In 1940. | B．In 1939. | C．In 1941. | D．In 1942 |
小题2:Why does Mrs. Ward always use the same Valentine’s Day card?| A．She is an environmentalist. | | B．She can’t afford a new one. | | C．She values the card very much. | | D．She doesn’t want to waste money. |
小题3:What do we know about the 70-year-old Valentine’s Day card?| A．It was first given to Doris on a plane. | | B．It is usually kept in their cupboard | | C．It was made by hand by Mr. Ward. | | D．It is sent to Doris by post every year. |
小题4:By saying “Mrs. Ward’s card is not the only thing that has endured the passing of time.”, the author means __________.| A．The card records their romance | | B．The card will still be used in future | | C．They both treasure the very card | | D．Their affections are still strong |
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Many of us feel uneasy when someone stands too close to us, talks to us too loudly or makes eye contact(接触) with us for too long. But have you ever wondered why those things make you uncomfortable?
It’s all about personal peace, which means not only an imaginary space around the body, but also the space around all the senses. People feel that their space is being violated(侵犯) when they meet with an unwelcome sound, smell or look. This is probably why a man on a crowded bus shouting into his mobile phone or a woman next to you putting on strong perfume(香水) makes you feel angry.
Whether people have had a stronger wish to protect their personal space in recent times is hard to say. Yet studies of airlines show that people have a strong desire(渴望) to have space to themselves. In a survey （调查）by TripAdvisor, a travel website, people said that if they had to pay more for some extra service, they would rather have larger seats than extra food.
Although people may need their personal space, some hardly realize it. For example, people on a bus who hold newspapers in front of their faces to read in fact keep a distance from strangers.
Go and watch a library table. You will notice that one of the corner seats will usually be taken first, because they are the farthest way. What if someone sits opposite to you? Maybe you will pile up books as if to make a wall.
Preference(偏好) for personal space are different from culture to culture. Scientists have found that Americans generally prefer more personal space than people from other cultures. In Latin(拉丁人的) cultures, however, people are more comfortable standing close to each other.
小题1:The writer mainly _________ in this article.| A．tells us how to achieve personal space | | B．explains what personal space people need is | | C．introduces some knowledge about personal space | | D．argues for the importance of keeping personal space |
小题2:Who might feel his personal space is safe according to the passage?| A．A person who has to sit next to a lady putting on strong perfume. | | B．A person who has been watched by a stranger for a long time. | | C．A person who hears strange noises when reading at home. | | D．A Latin boy who is chatting with a friend sitting close to him. |
小题3:What can we know from the survey by TripAdvisor?| A．People need a smaller personal space in recent times than before. | | B．People have a strong desire for personal space in recent times. | | C．There are not enough seats on the plane to meet people’s needs. | | D．Food service is better provided than seats on the plane. |
小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．The space around the body is more needed than that around all the senses. | | B．If you hold newspapers on the bus, your personal space won’t be violated. | | C．People usually choose the corner seats first in a library for personal space. | | D．Different cultures share the same preferences for personal space. |
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Sam, an unemployed piano tuner, said it was only the second thing he had ever won in his life. The first thing was an Afghan blanket at a church raffle when he was 25 years old. But this was much bigger: it was $120,000! He had won the Big Cube, a state lottery game. To win, a contestant must first guess which number a spinning cube will stop on. The cube has six numbers on it: 1X, 10X, 50X, 100X, 500X, and 1000X. If he is correct, the contestant must then guess which of two selected variables is going to be greater. So, just guessing which number appears on the cube does not guarantee that you will win any money. Sam correctly guessed 1000X, but he still had to choose between two variables. One variable was the number of cars that would run the stop sign at Hill Street and Lake Avenue in six hours. The other variable was the number of times that a teenage boy would change TV channels in a three-hour period. This was a tough decision.
Finally, Sam flipped a coin. It came up heads, so Sam picked the teenager. He picked right. The stop sign was run only 76 times, but the teen clicked 120 times. Sixty-year-old Sam jumped for joy, for he had just won 1000 times 120, or $120,000. Sam dreamily left the lottery studio. Talking excitedly on his cell phone while crossing the street, he got hit by a little sports car.
Sam is slowly getting better. He was in the hospital for a month. His hospital bill was $110,000. And the insurance company for the little sports car"s owner sued Sam for $9,000 worth of repairs. Also, Sam still has to pay federal taxes on his winnings. Sam doesn"t play the state lottery any more. He says it"s better to be unlucky.
小题1:When Sam won the second thing that he’d won in his life, he was ______. | A．25 years old | | B．six years old | | C．76 years old | | D．sixty years old |
小题2:To win the game, the contestants had to make ______ guesses. 小题3:Sam won the lottery because ______. | A．he was lucky | B．he was good at math | | C．he was smart | D．he was tough |
小题4:Sam’s experience shows that ______| A．everything has its time and that time must be watched. | | B．he who risks nothing, gains nothing. | | C．everything comes to him who waits. | | D．he who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday. |
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My name is Margaret. I have been a professional for twenty years. I’m always how sorrow and pain can bring such wonderful gifts as wisdom, patience and love. , we often get so caught up in the daily necessities and routines that we the very things that can bring us and teach us many valuable lessons.
I was hired to a very special lady. I was to prepare meals for her, make sure she took her medicine , do light housekeeping, and provide transportation to and from the market and her doctor’s appointments. All of these were important and necessary so that she could remain . Our focus was just that - her to remain living independently.
It was on a cold rainy night. She turned her little head and smelt her
pillow after she had got into bed. I observed tears running from her eyes. She said, “It’s been such a long time since I’ve had sheets; I love the of fresh clean sheets. I couldn’t the sheets myself anymore. Thank you so much for changing my sheets. ”
Such a simple as smelling clean sheets brought such great joy to her life. That was the day I unconditional care. The next day we sat down and what was important to her, what she liked, and how she had done things all these years. I never knew how much I would enjoy and learn from her her life experiences with me. She was the sunshine in my life.
I’m so for the lessons I have learned - the lessons I almost because I forgot to slow down to look and see the beauty that was right in front of me.
| 小题1: | | A．teacher | B．doctor | C．coach | D．caregiver |
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| 小题2: | | A．worried | B．confused | C．amazed | D．interested |
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| 小题3: | | A．However | B．Therefore | C．Besides | D．Though |
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| 小题4: | | A．value | B．admire | C．acquire | D．ignore |
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| 小题5: | | A．wisdom | B．joy | C．knowledge | D．wealth |
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| 小题6: | | A．care for | B．look for | C．call up | D．pick up |
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| 小题7: | | A．constantly | B．happily | C．properly | D．immediately |
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| 小题8: | | A．lessons | B．tasks | C．meals | D．gifts |
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| 小题9: | | A．calm | B．confident | C．comfortable | D．independent |
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| 小题10: | | A．helping | B．forcing | C．persuading | D．advising |
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| 小题11: | | A．also | B．even | C．still | D．just |
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| 小题12: | | A．new | B．clean | C．expensive | D．beautiful |
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| 小题13: | | A．style | B．size | C．smell | D．color |
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| 小题14: | | A．make | B．repair | C．change | D．buy |
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| 小题15: | | A．pleasure | B．success | C．offer | D．desire |
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| 小题16: | | A．needed | B．learned | C．took | D．got |
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| 小题17: | | A．dealt with | B．took up | C．carried out | D．talked about |
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| 小题18: | | A．sharing | B．comparing | C．discussing | D．recalling |
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| 小题19: | | A．famous | B．sorry | C．anxious | D．thankful |
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| 小题20: | | A．accepted | B．missed | C．understood | D．gained |
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