READING COMPREHENSION. There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a pro
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READING COMPREHENSION. |
There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external (外在的) result or a product that can easily be identified and measured. The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts. By contrast (对照), the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but the attitudes, feelings people have, and their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected difficulties. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept. In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may "fail" at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is necessary for our ability to grow. Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, we tend to take more chances and be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we"re shy and indecisive? Then our sense of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and we think we are slow to adapt change or that we"re not smart enough to deal with a new challenge. Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all. These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow. If we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making. |
1. A person is generally believed to achieve personal growth when_____ . |
A. he has given up his smoking habit B. he has made great efforts in his work C. he is interested in making anything new D. he has tried to determine where he is on his journey |
2. Which of the following can be viewed as the process of personal growing? |
A. Our manager was always willing to accept new challenges. B. Jane won the first prize in the speech competition. C. Jerry picked up French during his stay in Paris. D. Father"s salary rose from 5, 000 to 7,000. |
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2. In the author"s eye, one who views personal growth as a process would ______. |
A. succeed in climbing up the social ladder B. judge his ability to grow from his own achievements C. face difficulties and take up challenges D. aim high and reach his goal each time |
3.When the author says "a new way of being" (para.3), he is referring to _____. |
A. a new approach to experiencing the world B. a new way of taking risks C. a new method of finding ourselves D. a new system of adapting to change |
4. For personal growth, the author is in favor of all the following except ____. |
A. being curious about more changes B. being quick in self-adaptation C. having an open mind to new experiences D. staying away from failures and challenges |
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阅读理解。 |
When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate (照亮) me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share. When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and "too serious" about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:"Let"s start with a train whistle today." We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped. When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair (失望) and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other. For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves.Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other"s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:"Yes, I must tell…." We have never met. It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist (心理学家), who will only fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend. |
1. In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to _____. |
A. become serious about her study B. go to her friend"s house regularly C. learn from her classmates at school D. share poems and stories with her friend |
2. In Paragraph 3, "We gave London to each other" probably means _____. |
A. our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared D. we parted with each other in London |
3. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _____. |
A. call each other regularly B. have similar personalities C. enjoy writing to each other D. dream of meeting each other |
阅读表达。 |
For the next seven years, sit down each evening and write down ten things you are grateful for each day. Better still, do this with partner or friend. Before we practice gratitude (感恩), we are in the dark and there appears to be very little to be grateful for. Once we begin, a new light dawns, sometimes a brilliant light, a light as bright as heaven itself. To whom are you grateful in your life? Do these people know the full extent of your gratitude? Do you realize how grateful they will be when you tell them? Gratitude is more important than an attitude; gratitude is philosophy. The philosophy of gratitude being as a hope, grows into a belief, and finally becomes an absolute knowing. It is a knowing that within any given situation-peaceful or painful or ugly-there is always a gift waiting, waiting for to see. If it appears you have nothing to be grateful for, it is because you are not allowing yourself to receive. Just because you do not receive does not mean there is nothing to receive. On the contrary (相反), there is always ____ and so there is always a reason to be grateful. Pray:"Dear God, teach me I am worthy to receive, teach me how to receive, teach me gratitude". Gratitude is good medicine. One single serving of gratitude is often enough to open the heart, energise the body, warm the bones, make your hair curl, put a spring in your step, start you humming, and make you smile like a baby. |
1. What"s the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.) __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? Showing even a bit of gratitude can make everything look fine, and it will be of great benefit to you. __________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.) __________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Do you agree with the author"s opinion of gratitude? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.) __________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese. __________________________________________________________________________________ |
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We should show respect (尊重) to everybody, especially our elders because they are ahead of us-in age, in wisdom, in experience and education. Our 1 have done a lot for us, directly or indirectly and most of us 2 everything to their kindness and love. When we 3 them respect, whether ii is by bowing to them, or 4 them with a smile, or offering them any help they need, it is one way of 5 our own love and gratitude (感激) to them. 6 , elders have also been through all the years you are 7 and know a little more about the world than you do. It is 8 that you do not agree with the belief of your elders but this is nothing new. All younger generations have always 9 with their elders and it is these differences that bring changes in human 10 . However much you disagree with them, give them credit (信任) for their 11 . With changing times and 12 influences, youngsters no longer know what is interpreted as disrespect to elders. Youngsters should 13 express their views and if there are arguments, they should not 14 their voices. If there is no space on sofas or chairs, children will immediately 15 their places, and sit on the carpet. In buses and trains, youngsters are 16 to give up their places to older people. This is not a 17 of who has more rights. It is simply that those who are youngsters have the strength to bear 18 , or stand unpleasantness, so it is natural to show consideration (体贴) to those who are older and perhaps at a 19 disadvantage (劣势). When you do simple things as a mark of respect, elders become 20 that youngsters care for them, and they respond with affection and kindness. |
( )1.A. youngsters ( )2.A. devote ( )3.A. show ( )4.A. greeting ( )5.A. expressing ( )6.A. However ( )7.A. experiencing with ( )8.A. maybe ( )9.A. quarreled ( )10.A. community ( )11.A. experience ( )12.A. cultural ( )13.A. quietly ( )14.A. rise ( )15.A. give away ( )16.A. expected ( )17.A. doubt ( )18.A. suffering ( )19.A. serious ( )20.A. aware | B. elders B. owe B. explain B. receiving B. describing B. Therefore B. going through B. likely B. dealt B. organization B. reality B. special B. slightly B. raise B. get rid of B. forced B. question B. pressure B. light B. alive | C. parents C. pay C. exhibit C. supplying C. sending C. Besides C. suffering from C. perhaps C. lived C. society C. emotion C. environmental C. silently C. support C. give up C. needed C. wonder C. trouble C. heavy C. knowing | D. juniors D. give D. point D. showing D. suggesting D. Though D. worrying out D. probably D. disagreed D. public D. information D. position D. coldly D. low D. send out D. reminded D. challenge D. discomfort D. slight D. realizing | 阅读理解。 | An idea came to me, and I turned off the lights in the studio. In the darkness, I took off my shirt and took up the cello (大提琴); it was the first time in my life I"d felt the instrument against my bare chest. I"d never thought about that; music scholars always talk about the resonating properties (共振) of various instruments, but surely the performer"s own body must have some effect on the sound. As I dug into the notes I imagined that my own chest and lungs were extensions of the sound box; I seemed to be able to change the sound by the way I sat, and by varying the muscular tightness in my upper body. After improvising for a while, I started playing, still in the darkness. I heard the music through my skin. For the first time I didn"t think about how it would sound to anyone else, and slowly, joyfully, gratefully, I started to hear again. The notes sang out, first like a trickle, then like a fountain of cool water bubbling up from a hole in the middle of a desert. After an hour or so I looked up, and in the darkness saw the outline of the cat sitting on the floor in front of me, cleaning her paws and purring loudly. I had an audience again, humble as it was. So that"s what I do now with my cello. At least once a day I find time to tune it, close my eyes and listen. It"s probably not going to lead to the kind of comeback I"d be thirsty for-years of playing badly have left scars on my technique-but I might eventually try giving a concert if I feel up.to it. Occasionally I feel a stab of longing, and I wish I could give just one more concert on a great stage before my lights blink off, but that longing passes more quickly now. I take comfort in the fact that, unlike the way I felt before, I can enjoy playing for myself now. I feel relaxed and expansive when I play, as if I could stretch out my arms and reach from one end of the apartment to the other. A feeling of completeness and dignity surrounds me and lifts me up. | 1. The writer put the cello against his bare chest to _____. | A. test music scholars" ideas about the resonating properties B. experience the effect of his body on the musical sound C. reduce his muscular tightness in his upper body D. check the function of the sound box | 2. In Paragraph 2, the writer intends to _____. | A. explain his feelings of playing before a cat B. identify specific pieces of music he played C. express his feelings of playing against his body D. describe the sound when he played against his body | 3. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer was _____. | A. optimistic B. discouraged C. nervous D. enthusiastic | 4. The passage is mainly about _____. | A. a musician playing the cello for an audience B. a musician"s feelings when playing the cello C. a musician finding joy in playing music in a new way D. a musician"s desire to return to his former profession | 根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 | To forgive may be great, but no one ever said it was easy. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of your anger. But forgiveness is possible-and it can be surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental health. 1_____ So how do you start the recovering? Try following these steps: Calm yourself. 2_____ You just take a couple of breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, someone you love. Don"t wait for an apology. Many times the person who hurt you has no intention of apologizing. 3_____ So if you wait for people to apologize, you could be waiting an awfully long time. Take the control away from your offender (冒犯者). 4_____ Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you. 5_____ If you understand that person, you may realize that he or she was acting out of ignorance, feat- even love. To gain the same feeling, you may want to write a letter to yourself from your offender"s point of view. Don"t forget to forgive yourself. For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge. But it can rob you of your self-confidence if you don"t do it. | A. There are several ways to forgive and forget. B. It can help reduce the wearing out of the immune system and allow people to feel more energetic. C. Recognize the benefits of forgiveness. D. They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don"t see things the same way. E. Mentally replaying your hurt gives power to the person who caused your pain. F. Try to see things from the other person"s position. G. To stop your anger, try a simple stress-management technique. |
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