阅读理解。 In one way of thinking, failure is part of life. In another way, failu
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success. The "spider-story" is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century,
was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider making a web(网). The spider tried
to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times. On the seventh time he made it and
went on to make his web. Bruce is said to have been encouraged by this and to have gone on to
defeat the English. Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed
before he found the right way to make one. Once he was asked why he kept on trying to make
a new type of battery when he had failed so often, he replied, "Failure? I have no failure. Now
I know 50,000 ways it won"t work."
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were
you in top form yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?
Second, is the goal you"re trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what
your real goals may be. Think about this question, "If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?"
This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn"t be doing anyway.
The third thing to keep in mind about failure is that it"s a part of life. Learn to "live with yourself"
even though you may have failed.
B. how people fail
C. famous failures
D. how not to fail
B. think about failure as part of your life
C. think about failure to find out what went wrong
D. keep away from things that are beyond you
B. learn to remember it
C. learn to enjoy it
D. learn to accept it
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But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the 1 side is as much interesting. It may be a
discussion of the way to keep in good health, or advice about how to be oneself i
n 2 . If I cut thefront essay, the opposite one is bound to 3 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text without
the subject. As a result, the scissors would 4 before they start, or halfway done when I find out the
result that inevitably cause me 5 .
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worthy your 6 . You can only take
up one of them, while the other has to wait or be 7 . But you know the future is unpredictable ----
the changed 8 may not allow you to do what is 9 behind. Thus you are caught in a fix and feel sad.
10_ come that nice opportunities and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may 11
that your life changes dramatically on your preference of one 12 to the other.
In fact that is what life is like: we are often 13 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are
both desirable like newspaper cutting. It often 14 that our attention is drawn to one thing only after
we take up another. The former may be more 15 than the latter and give rise to a divided 16 . I
still remember a philosopher"s remarks, "When one door shuts, another opens in life." 17 a passive
choice may not be a bad one.
Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life"s storm makes us 18 , there must be something we
can 19 , some shore we can land on. Don"t forget God always keeps an alternative door open for
every one. While the front door is closed, there must be another 20 for you.
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( )7.A. put away
( )8.A. chance
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( )10.A. How
( )11.A. seem
( )12.A. decision
( )13.A. faced
( )14.A.appears
( )15.A. necessary
( )16.A. mind
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( )19.A. depend
( )20.A. alive
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C. relation
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D. the word
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We should not hesitate too much during the first half of our lives, while we should not regret at what
we"ve done during the other half. We should seize every opportunity (机会) to find a way out in our lives,
for it goes off quickly. We should say something urgent (紧迫的) slowly, something serious clearly,
something small humorously and something unsure carefully. We should never say something that did not
happen, something that we cannot do, something that does harm to others. Do not easily say something
about others. We should follow our own heart and interest, and fulfill what we should do.
Everyone is longing for a happy life, but owning wealth does not necessarily mean owning happiness.
To truly reach happiness, we need to know how to get on with others. So we need to understand the
core (核心) of happiness and achieve what we desire.
We need to know and understand happiness before we finally get it. A smart man must know to do
something good even though it may be small, and not to do something evil even though it may be tiny in
everyday life. As long as we keep a kind heart and do everything legally, we can live a peaceful life. But
if we keep an evil heart and do whatever we want, we are indeed digging a tomb for ourselves. A smart
man knows to learn a lesson from his falls for he knows that every fall is a valuable experience leading to
happiness in the future. He will not waste his time in criticizing (批评)others. Instead, he tends to spend
more time seeking his own happiness. He knows to keep a heart of conscience (道德) and not to spread
others" mistakes. He also knows to think before he leaps so that he will not feel regretful afterwards.
Moreover, he knows to tolerate others, so he can naturally lead a happy life.
Without happiness, one will feel terribly sorry, for he always insists that he has done the right thing all
the time and that others often do wrong to him. He attributes (把……归于) every mistake to others or
the environment instead of reflecting on himself, which keeps him farther and farther away from happiness.
A well-known person once said, "Nobody intends to make mistakes. One makes mistakes because
of his ignorance (无知)." Therefore, if someone makes mistake, we need to care about him, forgive him
and enlighten (启发) him by setting a good example to him instead of losing temper (怒气) to him.
Otherwise, we are also ignorant like him, for we also make a stupid mistake that leads us farther from
happiness.
In order to lead a happy life, we need to know more about others, about the society, about our culture
and history. We should love our country, keep the law and realize our own responsibility (责任), and then
we are sure to have a happy life.
| Title | Talk about happiness | ||
| Wise actions in life | ●Do the things without hesitating and never regret at anything . ●Seize every opportunity to do the things we should. ●(1)________ saying something that did not happen. ●Don"t comment on others easily. | ||
Things about happiness we should remember | ●Getting on well with others is necessary. ●Doing good things with a kind heart may make us live (2)________. ●Knowing to learn a lesson from the falls is a valuable experience. ●Thinking twice before action and tolerating others can lead to a happy life. | ||
| (3)________for not having happiness | ●He blames everything wrong for the environment not himself. ●His ignorance results in making mistakes, which keeps him farther away from happiness. | ||
| (4)________for reaching happiness | ●We should care about the people who make mistakes instead of losing temper and set an example to them. ●We should have a better (5)________ of society, culture, history and others. ●We should keep the law and shoulder our own responsibility. | ||
| 完形填空。 | |||
| "I"m too old and it"s too late," which played over and over in my mind. I was 1 and exhausted after ending my marriage and my law career at the same time. 2 my ambition to become a writer, I 3 my ability to succeed as one. Had I wasted years going 4 the wrong goals? I was at a low point 5 the voice on the radio began 6 the story of Grandma Moses. Ann Mary Moses left home at thirteen, bore ten children and worked hard to raise the five who 7 . Struggling to make a living on poor farms, she managed to 8 a bit of beauty for herself by embroidering (绣花) on cloth. At seventy-eight, her fingers became 9 awkward to hold a needle. 10 give in to aging, she went out to an empty room and began to 11 . For the first two years, these paintings were either given away or sold 12 a little money. But at the age of seventy-nine, she was "discovered" by the 13 world---and the rest is 14 . She went on to produce more than two thousand paintings, 15 her book illustrations (插图) for It was the Night before Christmas were completed in her one-hundredth year! 16 I listened to the radio, my 17 changed. If Grandma Moses 18 begin a new career and succeed after eighty, my life still had 19 after thirty. Before the program ended, I rushed to my computer to work on the novel I"d nearly 20 . It was published eight months later. | |||
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| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Community College Here I am, a senior. After four years of high school, I have learned a lot of lessons. Some were good and valuable. And I have also learned others just from growing up and being around other teenagers. I started senior year with a 1.5 GPA (＝grade point average平均分,相当于65%), which is not even close to what I am capable of. The last three years I fooled around and cut lots of classes. Now, I can easily say that it is the only thing in life that I regret. Next year I will watch most of my friends go to college while I lost that chance. This does not mean that I am giving up on my dreams, but when I started high school, my goal was to get great grades and go to a competitive college. At first I blamed the people around me for my bad experiences, but I"ve learned that it"s my fault when bad things happen. In the last three years I realized that I am the only one in control of myself. While making my teachers and my peers the excuse for not wanting to go to class, I developed a huge lying problem. If I could start over, I would in a heartbeat, but I can"t, so instead of beating myself up, I try talking to younger teenagers about the importance of doing well in school by explaining the situation I got myself into. Community college looks like a great opportunity. I am looking forward to taking many credits and receiving good grades. I see community college as a year to turn my life around. It"s my ticket out of here to wherever I want to go. I have another chance to make my future and I"ve promised myself I won"t mess up. We need to study history so we won"t repeat our past; I"ve studied my personal history, and will avoid my mistakes in the future. I am ready for the next task in life, the only question is, is it ready for me? | |||
| 1. The author takes the community college seriously because he wants to ________. | |||
| A. show his ability to be one of the top students B. prove that others did wrong to him before C. improve himself and win others" respect D. get the opportunity to apply for a good job | |||
| 2. Which of the following is NOT the author"s advice? | |||
| A. To behave well at school is necessary. B. Others should be blamed for our hard time. C. Learn from past, don"t make mistakes. D. Be hopeful, choose community college. | |||
| 3. From the passage, we know that the author is ________. | |||
| A. easygoing and hard working B. confident and responsible C. sensible and independent D. honest and ambitious | |||
| 4. The underlined phrase "fooled around" in the second paragraph means "________"． | |||
| A. wasted time B. played tricks C. made faces D. felt ashamed | |||
| 阅读理解 | |||
| A lot of people are their own enemies. They regard themselves as unlikely to succeed in college and often feel that there have been no accomplishments (成就) in their lives. In my first year of college especially, I saw people get themselves down too quickly. There were two students in my class who failed the first test and seemed to give up immediately. From that day on, they walked into the classroom carrying defeat on their shoulders the way other students carried textbooks under their arms. When they disappeared for good(长久地), no one took much notice, for they had already disappeared in spirit after that first test. I have really wanted to shake them by the shoulders and say: "You are not dead. Be proud and pleased that you have brought yourself here to college. Breathe. Hope. Act." Such people s  hould not use self-doubts as an excuse f  or not trying. They should pull themselves together and get to work. They should start taking notes in class and trying to learn. Above all, they should not give up without even trying. | |||
| 1. The phrase "get themselves down" (Para. 1) probably means ______. | |||
| A. tell lies B. lose confidence C. avoid dangers D. waste time | |||
| 2. When the two students dropped out (退学), no one took much notice because ______. | |||
| A. they had long lost heart in class performance B. they were absent from class too often C. they didn"t get on well with other students D. they were so much cut off from the rest of the class | |||
| 3. According to the passage, the two students failed in their study because of their ______. | |||
| A. shyness B. proudness C. self-doubt D. laziness | |||
| 4. The author thinks that the two students should ______. | |||
| A. give up their college education B. learn from other students C. feel happy because they are in college D. try hard before giving up | |||