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lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said:"Yesterday he person who has
been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to attend the funeral in the room
that has been prepared in the gym."
At first everyone was sorry to hear that one of their colleagues had died, but after a while hey started
getting curious about who this person might be. The excitement grew as the employees arrived at the gym
to pay their last respects. Everyone wondered:"Who is this person that was hindering my progress? Well,
at least he"s no longer here!"
One by one the employees got closer to the coffin and when they looked inside it they suddenly became
speechless. They stood over the coffin, shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part
of their soul. There was a mirror inside the coffin: everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There
was also a sign next to the mirror that said:"There is only one person who is capable to set limits to your
growth:it is you." You are the only person who can revolutionize your life. You are the only person who can
influence your happiness, your realization and your success.
You are the only person who can help yourself. Your life does not change when your boss changes,
when your friends change, when your parents change,when your partner changes, when your company
changes. Your life changes when you change, when you go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize
that you are the only one responsible for your life.
B. a chimney from where smelly smoke comes out
C. a ceremony for burying or burning a dead person
D. an exhibition displaying varieties of treasures
B. Beyond Your Belief
C. A Strange Company
D. A Road to Success
B. It is you yourself that can actually change your life.
C. In the mirror you can find how small you are in the world.
D. You can achieve your goal if you set limits to your growth.
B. providing good working conditions for its employees
C. suffering a heavy loss due to its staff member"s death
D. trying to make its employees aware of their own potential
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and down America"s main streets; they carry chips on their shoulders as big as the Sears Tower. And at least
some of the time those things are true. But we shouldn"t forget that there are hard moments in the life of a
teenager too.
I watched such a moment not long ago at a woman"s funeral (葬礼). I didn"t expect the event to affect me.
Through much of the ceremony, in fact, I remained unmoved.
Then her teenage grandson stepped forward. With his very first deep breath, every heart in that church
was achingly reminded of something we had all forgotten. Softly he began:"I want to share a few values that
Nana taught me. She never failed to see light in any situation. When our family dog would literally attract her,
what would Nana say? "Oh, what beautiful markings that dog has." That was Nana.
"She was a strong woman who often lived in the shadow of my grandpa, who was a successful
businessman in this city. But she was the one behind the scenes who provided the strength and support for
Grandpa"s career," he said, with a voice now trembling."That was Nana"s way."
Through a muffled sob, he continued. "Whenever she did anything worth recognition, you"d have to hear
about it from a different source, because she was never one to brag."
Finally, in a voice breaking free of sorrow, he looked up and said, "Nana taught me courage. She put up
an incredible fight to the end, when she died peacefully, which is how she lived her life. That was Nana"s
way, and I hope I can carry on in the same manner."
There are no hearts as sensitive as those of teenagers, because everything is happening to them for the
first time. The trouble with teenagers is that they haven"t learned to be controlled.
When that boy rose to speak about the woman who surely had been his truest ally and dearest friend, his
honest voice dragged each of us out into the open where we could no longer hide in the calm ritual. He
exposed us to the truth about this very real woman who believed in a boy who probably tried the patience of
many adults. He reminded us that his grandmother was more than another dot on the chart of life and death.
All over again we felt those powerful losses crisscrossing our own hearts, and we knew that when you
say good-bye to a beloved grandparent, you say good-bye to something happy, something young in yourself.
And that something never really returns, and the pain never really goes away.
become a stronger person after her terrible experience at the 2004 Athens Games.
Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August,
said:"Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care about criticism (批评)."
"In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to
the people around me."
She didn"t care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe
should have rested and let her body recover after her failure in Athens.
"Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn"t spoken to me since last year and if she
really cared for me, I"m sure she would have contacted (联系) me."
Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks after Athens.
"In New York I wasn"t in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the
race."
Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday"s race would be winning a third title and
not chasing world records.
However, Radcliffe has not ruled out (排除) in the future chasing her "final" world
record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career
to produce only four or five world-class times.
"I don"t think that-although I can"t put a number on it," said Radcliffe. "That changes
from person to person."
Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance some point in the
future. Following a successful three-month training period in the United States, the
31-year-old will chase a third title on Sunday after her first victory in 2002 and again
12 months later.
Radcliffe clocked a time 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kilometre race three years ago.
Afterwards she set a "mixed course" mark of 2:17:18 five months later in Chicago before
lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 in the 2003 London event.
B. love people around her more
C. rest for five months
D. face criticism bravely
B. Radcliffe didn"t fully recover before the New York City marathon.
C. Radcliffe won her first marathon title in the 2004 Athens Games.
D. Radcliffe had a 3-month training before the New York City marathon.
B. if she can win another race though she has won many tunes
C. how many times a maradion runner can set the world record
D. if she has the ability to produce four or five world-class times
B. two
C. three
D. four
B. Well begun is half done.
C. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
D. Where there is a will, there is a way.
"Be 1 to people." This sounds quite common, but I"ll never 2 my father telling me that. I was ten, and
I had been rude to someone. He said, "There is no 3 in being rude to anyone at any time. You never know
who you"re going to meet later in life. 4 .you don"t change anything by being rude. 5 you don"t get
anywhere."
" 6 that you can do anything you want to do. Don"t let anyone say, "You"re not 7 enough…it"s too
hard…it"s a bad 8 …no one has done that before…girls don"t do that. ""My mom gave me that advice in 1973.
And it
9 me to never worry about what others were saying about my 10 direction.
"Always do the 11 job you can do at whatever you"re assigned, even if you think it"s 12 ." Jerry
Parkinson, an assistant advertising manager and my boss at P&G, told me this in 1979.Here I had just 13
from Harvard Business School(HBS), and I was assigned to determine 14 the hole in the Ivory shampoo bottle
should be: 3/8 of an inch or 1/8 of an inch. I did research, focus groups...and I would come home at night 15
how I had gone from HBS to this. But later I realized that any job you"re given is a(n) 16 to prove yourself.
"Don"t be a credit hog (吝惜赞扬的人). If you"re 17 in the neighborhood of good things, good things will
18 to you." Tom Tierney, who was my boss at Bain in 1981 and is now on the eBay board, told me this. It"s
19 ? you get ahead by crediting (赞扬) other people.
Finally, in 1998, I was in New York 20 the big celebration as eBay went public (上市). My husband is a
doctor. I called into his operating room and told him the great news. And he said, "That"s nice."
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| 阅读理解。 | ||||
| When I was a boy every holiday that I had seemed perfect. My parents took me by train or by car to a hotel by the sea. All day, I seem to remember. I played on the sands with strange exciting children. We make sandcastles with huge yellow walls, and watched the incoming tide destroy them; we splashed each other in the water and shrieked with excitement. When the tide went out, we climbed over the slippery rocks and stared down at the fish and the seaweed in the rock-pools. In those far-off days the sun seemed to shine constantly and the water was always warm. Sometimes we left the beach and walked in the country, exploring ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees that overhung streams. There were always sweets in one"s pockets or convenient places where one could buy ice- creams. Each day seemed a life-time. Although I am now an adult, my idea of a good holiday is much the same as it was. I still like the sun and the warm sand and the sound of waves breaking on the beach. I no longer wish to build sandcastles and I dislike sweets instantly, but I look forward to sitting down to a good meal and a bottle of wine in the evening. I think, too, that I prefer spending my holiday abroad. I want to smell different smells; I want to see different kinds of trees, flowers and birds; and I also want to see people with different colored skins, wearing different kinds of clothes. Above all, I want to hear a different language spoken and listen to different musical rhythms from those I am used to. But I still need my companions-not, of course, to play on the sands and eat ices with, but to drink with and talk to on warm moonlit nights. Sometimes I wonder what my perfect holiday will be when I am old. All I shall want to do then, I expect, will be to lie in bed, reading books about children who make sandcastles with huge yellow walls, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves sick on too many ices… | ||||
| 1. Where did the author mostly spend his holidays when he was young? | ||||
| A. In the countryside. B. On the beach. C. In the mountains. D. On the sea. | ||||
| 2. What does the underlined word "shrieked" in Paragraph 1 mean? | ||||
| A. shouted B. swam C. struggled D. surfed | ||||
| 3. What now interests the author as an adult is _____. | ||||
| A. to enjoy a nice dinner B. to spend his holiday sunbathing C. to chat with someone D. to experience a foreign culture | ||||
| 4. When the author grows old, he expects that _____. | ||||
| A. he will read more books about children B. he will lie in bed without worrying about anything C. he will bring back wonderful childhood memories from a book D. he will make sandcastles with his children | ||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||
| Listen carefully, working people, we would like to tell you something that could save your precious time and money! Best of all, it is free! It"s "no". What do you ask? We"ll say it again:"No". Sweet and simple "no". Say "no" at your office and see how quickly that pile of work on your desk disappears. "Saying "no" to others means you are saying "yes" to yourself," said Leslie Charles, a professional speaker from East Lansing, Michigan. "Time is precious. People are spending money buying time. And yet we are willing to give up our time because we can"t say "no"." Susie Watson, a famous writer, said people who always say "yes" need to say "no" without guilt (内疚) or fear of punishment. "I would rather have someone give me a loving "no"than an obligated (强制的) "yes"," she said. Susie Watson says she feels "no" obligation to give an explanation when she says "no" either socially or professionally. Does she feel guilty about it? "Not at all," said Watson, who is director of advertising and public relations at Timex Corp in Middlebury, Connecticut. "Most people are afraid of saying "no"… My advice is to say "yes" only if you don"t mean "no"." Watson said "no" is the most effective weapon against wasting time. "Every year there are more demands on your time… Other people are happy to use up your time," Watson said. Time saving appears to be "no"" greatest friend. "No" can be your new friend, a powerful tool to take back your life. "No" may even take you further in the business world than"yes". "No" is power and strength. "No" now seems completely correct."Saying "no" isn"t easy. But finally it"s greatly liberating," Charles said. But, he added, a "no" project needs to be worked on every day because it is hard to change long-term habit. But, he also warns:"Don"t go to extremes. Don"t find yourself saying "no"to everything. In return you should learn to hear "no"." | ||||
| 1. The sentence "you are saying "yes" to yourself" means _____. | ||||
| A. you can have more time to play with others B. you needn"t care about other"s feeling if you are happy C. you are selfish and treat others rudely D. you can deal with your business as you have planned | ||||
| 2. When you say "no" to others, you should say it in a _____. | ||||
| A. secret way B. polite way C. proud way D. guilty way | ||||
| 3. In Watson"s opinion, people can save much time on condition that _______. | ||||
| A. they say "no" at a suitable time B. they say "no" as much as possible C. they are afraid of saying "no" D. they make others angry at them | ||||
| 4. If a person says "no" to everything, the result he or she receives may be that he or she _____. | ||||
A. enjoys a wonderful life |