Question

【題目】As December comes to an end, you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life. But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year, you think about the last year. You excitedly write down all the changes you are going to make, but by the end of January those ideas get lost in your busy life.

Here’s a suggestion: Forget the too big, hard to achieve goals and just think about the small ones. “We often think that we have to do everything in big steps, even though it’s so hard for us to reach it, said Robert Maurer, who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life. “What we try to do is to begin with such a small step that we can’t find any excuse not to do it.”

“Kaizen”, a Japanese word, is used to mean to change behavior and attitudes. During World WarⅡ, American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes. After the war, the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan. It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it “Kaizen”, which means “improvement”.

Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. “Kaizen” could possibly help people succeed in doing everything.

【1】Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us ______.

A. we should do everything in big steps

B. how to change one’s life with one small step

C. we should try a lot of sudden changes

D. how to find a small step without any excuse

【2】The underlined part “increase productivity” in the passage means “______”.

A. 提高生產(chǎn)率

B. 增加成本

C. 增加出口量

D. 提高待遇

【3】The writer of the passage suggests we should ______.

A. make changes at the end of the year

B. do few experiments with “Kaizen”

C. do things with hard to achieve goals

D. take a tiny step to achieve big goals

【4】Which of the following is TRUE from the passage?

A. You can achieve your goals if you are not too busy.

B. Robert Maurer studied “kaizen” and found it helpful.

C. You can’t find any excuse not to reach a big goal.

D. “Kaizen” was brought to Japan during World WarⅡ.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要講述了應(yīng)忘記太大的、難以實(shí)現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)，只想想小的目標(biāo)，一步步地去實(shí)現(xiàn)它。

【1】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life（最近寫了一本書《一小步可以改變你的生活》）可知，故選B

【2】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes（通過嘗試一個小的、持續(xù)的進(jìn)步來代替突然地改變）可知，選A

【3】D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Forget the too big, hard-to-achieve goals and just think about the small ones（忘記太大的、難以實(shí)現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)，只想想小的）可知，本題選D

【4】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it（莫勒學(xué)習(xí)了這個主意，然后做了一些實(shí)驗(yàn)）可知，本題選B