阅读理解。 Do you know what Fear and Faith have in common? Fear believes in a neg
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Do you know what Fear and Faith have in common? Fear believes in a negative future. Faith believes in a positive future. Both believe in something that has not yet happened. So I ask you, if neither the positive nor negative future has happened yet then why not choose to believe in the positive future? I believe during these challenging times we have a choice between two roads: the positive road and the negative road. And our bus can"t be on two roads at the same time. So we have to make a choice and this choice determines our belief about the future and the attitude and actions we bring to the present. I"m not saying we shouldn"t have any fear. There are times when fear is a gift. A healthy dose(剂量) of fear causes us to examine our situation and plan for the future. It moves us to smell the cheese and expect change. When used wisely it allows us to manage risk and make better decisions. Some fear is good. However, what I have observed lately is a supersized, huge dose of fear that is spreading the hearts and minds of far too many people. This oversized fear is causing leaders and their organizations to either act unreasonably or to not act at all. They are either hurrying in a million different directions because of fear. In both cases, fear is leading them to take the negative road to failure. The answer is the positive road paved (铺满) with faith and a belief that your best days are not behind you but ahead of you. With this belief you make the right choices and actions today that will create your positive future tomorrow. You stay calm, focused and committed to your purpose. You look for ways to save money and cut costs without making unreasonable fear-based decisions that sacrifice your future success. You identify opportunities in the midst of the challenges and you focus on solutions instead of problems. Your faith and belief in a positive future leads to powerful actions today. The future has not happened yet and you have a say in what it looks like by the way you think and act. Fear or Faith. The choice is yours. |
1. According to the passage, we can know that ________. |
A. Fear and Faith have nothing in common B. both Fear and Faith trust something in the future C. neither negative nor positive future will happen D. people usually choose to believe in the positive future |
2. What does the writer mean by saying "our bus can"t be on two roads"? |
A. We usually choose the negative road B. We should choose the positive road C. We must choose either a positive or negative road D. Our belief about the future depends on our choice |
3. Which of the following about "Fear" is true? |
A. We should have fear because it is a gift. B. Reasonable fear helps to plan for future. C. Fear can bring cheese and risk to people. D. Leaders usually have oversized fear. |
4. If we have faith in future, we will ________. |
A. have the best days ahead of us B. be committed to saving money C. stay away from any challenges D. take powerful actions today |
5. What does the writer intend to tell us in the passage? |
A. Fear is closely related to faith. B. Life is full of fear and faith. C. We should have faith in a positive future. D. Wrong decisions sacrifice our future success. |
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While attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening. The overhead light outside my door was burned out and I had 1 finding the keyhole. When I 2 to open the door, I 3 around the wall for a light switch. I found a plate where a switch was 4 installed... but no switch! Not discouraged easily, I remembered 5 a lamp by the bed when I deposited my luggage 6 in the day. I found the bed in the 7 and then the lamp, but when I switched it on, nothing 8 ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the 9 to find another lamp. So I 10 my way slowly across the room to the curtains and... no drawstring! I finally stumbled(跌跌撞撞地走)around 11 I found a desk lamp which actually 12 ! That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world 13 be and how necessary light is! But even more necessary than 14 light is the light that shines from people --the light of 15 and faith. Because, for many people, the world is a dark and 16 place. For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in 17 of some light. So let your light shine. Whatever light you 18 may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. And if you feel that your light is 19 a candle in a forest remember -- there isn"t enough darkness in all the world to 20 the light of one small candle. |
( )1. A. confidence ( )2. A. managed ( )3. A. touched ( )4. A. already ( )5. A. equipping ( )6. A. later ( )7. A. light ( )8. A. happened ( )9. A. machine ( )10. A. wound ( )11. A. after ( )12. A. helped ( )13. A. can ( )14. A. mental ( )15. A. existence ( )16. A. lonely ( )17. A. short ( )18. A. make ( )19. A. not more than ( )20. A. put out | B. respect B. failed B. felt B. never B. producing B. earlier B. dark B. operated B. street B. forced B. until B. affected B. shall B. psychological B. love B. colourful B. favour B. offer B. other than B. give out | C. admiration C. wished C. sensed C. still C. spotting C. lower C. room C. fired C. room C. made C. while C. worked C. will C. electrical C. truth C. friendly C. face C. take C. no more than C . get over | D. difficulty D. meant D. looked D. once D. removing D. upper D. corner D. developed D. car D. lost D. since D. inspired D. must D. physical D. wisdom D. complex D. need D. contribute D. rather than D. set up |
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Friend is better than fortune. Friend is worse than poison in some cases. The two sentences above are opposite and seem to be unreasonable but they can be explained as follows: the first refers to all good friends who drive us towards good while the second all bad ones who lead us to wrong ways. My ideal(理想的) friend is of course a good friend whose goodness is shown below-he has no bad likings, such as smoking and drinking. He lives in frugality(节俭). He studies hard so as not to waste his golden time. At home he honors his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects his teachers and shares feelings of his classmates. He treats those truly who are true to him. In a word, he has all the good characters better than mine. I can follow him as a model. With his help I am free from all difficulties, Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never fear difficulty and I shall never know the existence of the word "failure". |
1. This passage tells us _ _ . |
A. how to make friends with others B. how the writer" s friend helps him C. what kind of person the writer"s friend is D what kind of person we should make friends with |
2. An ideal friend means . |
A. a true friend B. a false friend C. an imaginary friend D. an excellent friend |
3. From the passage we can learn that . |
A. the writer and his ideal friend have a lot to learn from each other B. the writer has a lot to learn from his ideal friend C. the writer"s ideal friend has a lot to learn from him D. the writer has only a little to learn from his ideal friend |
4. From the second paragraph, we can infer the writer is sure that . |
A. nothing cannot be done with friend B. only the first sentence is reasonable C. he who does not smoke or drink must be a good friend D. good friends should always help each other |
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When I come across a good article in reading newspapers. I often want to cut and keep it. 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 2 in good health, or a 3 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to 4 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 5 the title. Therefore, the scissors would 6 before they start, 7 halfway done when I find out the 8 result. Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth you 9 .You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be 10 up. But you know the future is unpredictable (不可预料) - the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 11 . Thus you are 12 in a difficult position and feel sad. How 13 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life 14 greatly on you preference of one choice to the other. In fact that is what 15 is like, we are often 16 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only 17 we get into another. The 18 may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I 19 remember a philosopher"s remarks, "When one door shuts, another opens in life." So a casual (不经意) 20 may not be a bad one. |
( )1. A. front ( )2. A. get ( )3. A. advice ( )4. A. suffer ( )5. A. on ( )6. A. use ( )7. A. or ( )8. A. satisfying ( )9. A. courage ( )10. A. given ( )11. A. near ( )12. A. filled ( )13. A. dares ( )14. A. improves ( )15. A. study ( )16. A. faced ( )17. A. before ( )18. A. following ( )19. A. still ( )20. A. treatment | B. same B. keep B. news B. reduce B. for B. handle B. but B. regretful B. strength B. held B. alone B. attracted B. comes B. changes B. society B. supplied B. after B. next B. also B. action | C. either C. lead C. theory C. prevent C. without C. prepare C. so C. surprising C. attention C. made C. about C. caught C. deals C. progresses C. nature C. connected C. until C. above C. once C. choice | D. opposite D. bring D. report D. cause D. off D. stay D. for D. impossible D. patience D. picked D. behind D. struck D. does D. goes D. life D. fixed D. as D. former D. almo st D. remark |
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I know we don"t have many serious talks, but now that I am on the edge of being an adult, I feel that you need to know and understand me. During the past nine years that we have been in America, I have grown greatly, changed from that wide-eyed and scared little girl to a proud and brave young woman. The change wasn"t always smooth, and I wasn"t always patient, but you were both always understanding. And through your understanding I have learned. I have learned from you. Dad, you wake up every morning to go to the steel plant, where people don"t speak your language and you don"t speak theirs. I know that if you were in Vietnam, you would be comfortably surrounded by friends. But you are here in America, doing what you don"t like, and through that, you are teaching your children the power of persistence. I have learned from you, Mom, you cook nice Vietnamese sour soup and fish, wait up at nights for your daughters. When I see you pacing back and forth because your daughters aren"t home yet, I cry because I see so much pain in your eyes, and through your pain I learn the meaning of home a sanctuary that I will always be able to turn to. Through all your sacrifices I learn the essence of being human. I learn to love. I find that this love leads me to you, to the home, to the fact that I am Vietnamese-American. The dreams that you have taught me slowly begin to take shape as I walk down the college path, step into the adult world and adventure out of your world. Wherever I go, I carry my past with me, knowing that you will always be there behind me and I will always come back, because you are where my home is. |
1.This passage is a ______. |
A. thank-you letter to the author"s parents B. comment on the author"s parents C. declaration of the author"s growing up D. message to praise the author"s parents |
2. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. |
A. the girls in the family are very naughty B. the author"s mother regrets immigrating to the USA C. the author is proud of being a Vietnamese-American D. the author"s father feels bad at work |
3. The underlined part "a sanctuary" refers to ______. |
A. a place full of happiness B. a place providing protection C. a place full of laughter D. a place providing food |
4. On the whole, the author"s attitude to the USA is that ______. |
A. she cherishes the fact of living in the USA B. she hates the USA because of the suffering she has got there C. she blames the USA for the pain it brings to them D. she is curious about the American way of life |
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We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day.This is so __1__ that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one __2__ understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as __3__ as we might think,as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant __4__. We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they __5_ do. As a matter of fact, they __6__ to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious(神秘的) way of knowing the __7__. Their sense of time does not __8__information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of "inner clock". This __9__ may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also __10__ , including man, have this "inner clock" which __11__ the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious __12__. Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food. In the past, this did not really __13__ because people lived in natural condition. In the __14__ world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very __15_ , then, to know more about the "inner clock". Such things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves. |
( )1. A. familiar ( )2. A. partly ( )3. A. complex ( )4. A. quietness ( )5. A. finally ( )6. A. refused ( )7. A. time ( )8. A. deal with ( )9. A. discovery ( )10.A. beasts ( )11.A. controls ( )12.A. world ( )13.A. happen ( )14.A. ancient ( )15.A. hard | B. strange B. personally B. simple B. darkness B. completely B. decided B. secret B. add to B. activity B. animals B. studies B. flower B. exist B. modern B. expensive | C. similar C. really C. mature C. loneliness C. physically C. continued C. process C. give away C. invention C. strangers C. measures C. power C. matter C. wonderful C. convenient | D. special D. willingly D. meaningful D. sadness D. normally D. failed D. study D. depend on D. method D. humans D. destroys D. experiment D. work D. peaceful D. important |
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