Question

When in doubt, cut that out! Yeah, yeah, doubting Thomas may have had a point in his day, and life may not be what you want it to be, but if you constantly doubt yourself, how can you accomplish anything?

Where is your confidence? What possible good can come from taking the negative aspect of any situation and growing it into acceptance?

The purpose of achievement is to attain a goal. So, if you set your goals and strive to get there, it should be assumed that you are moving toward your goals no matter what you are doing, right?

When watching a football game, one of those great high school starter games, set to determine who starts when the real game begin. I noticed the coach called “defense” only when the team was “protecting” their goal. As long as the team was fighting for more ground they played “offense”. Along the same lines, I've heard the phrase, “A strong defense requires a good offense.” Simply put, if you concentrate more on gaining ground than on protecting your goal, your accomplishments will be greater. Time spent protecting your goal is wasted time, when you could be working toward attaining your goal rather than preventing others from reaching their goal.

In business, if you waste your time focusing on what the competition is doing rather than working toward meeting your goals, you don't get very far.

Focus your attention on where you're going. Don't waste time worrying about where the competition is. You will gain ground while they are watching you. Smile as you reach your destination.

6. The writer of the passage intends to tell us________.

A. a common rule in a football game

B. how to beat your competitors

C. to overcome our doubt and achieve our goals

D. how to deal with our doubt in life

7. The author's purpose of mentioning Thomas in the first paragraph is to________.

A. show that famous people can change our life

B. tell us that successful people never doubt themselves

C. ask us to learn from successful people

D. tell us it's quite natural for people to doubt themselves

8. The author suggests that in business we should________.

A. avoid too much competition

B. seek as much cooperation as possible

C. focus on our own goals

D. know our competitors as well as ourselves

9. What did the author learn from watching a football game?

A. Slow and steady win the race.

B. A good offense is the best defense.

C. Teamwork leads to success.

D. A miss is as good as a mile.

10. The passage is intended for________.

A. football players         B. coaches

C. businessmen           D. common readers

Answer 1

6. 解析：選C。主旨大意題。概括全文的主旨可知，作者的目的是想告訴我們要實現(xiàn)目標(biāo)就必須首先消除疑慮。

7. 解析：選B。推理判斷題。作者在第一段提到愛迪生，如果愛迪生懷疑自己，我們的生活將是另一番模樣，說明像愛迪生這樣偉大的人物其成功的奧秘就在于堅信自己的目標(biāo)。

8. 解析：選C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段可知，作者建議我們在做生意時要全力追求自己的目標(biāo)，而不是考慮對手在做什么。

9. 解析：選B。推理判斷題。作者通過足球比賽所獲得的啟迪是：進(jìn)攻是最好的防御。A項表示“堅持就是勝利”；C項強(qiáng)調(diào)“合作”的重要性；D項表示“差之毫厘，繆之千里”。

10. 解析：選D。推理判斷題。綜合分析文章可知，作者在文中雖然提到了發(fā)明創(chuàng)造，足球比賽和做生意，但這僅僅是作者說明問題的手段，而“全力以赴實現(xiàn)目標(biāo)”的建議針對所有的人。