Dreaming is a natural part of who we are. We explore our dreams and develop personal dreams. We even like to dream BIG!
For the most part our dreams and wishes focus on the end result. We see ourselves in love, married, driving a great car, on vacation, with tons of money, in a great career, etc. Dreaming about the end result is just fantasizing and wishing. Wishing relies on some magical force to make our dreams turn into reality, and we become unhappy as we’re not living(實現(xiàn)) our dreams.
So how can we make our dreams come true? That is a question we all often struggle with. Even though we struggle with the answer, the answer is not that clear. We make our dreams come true with the action we take.
In my opinion, if you dream about being in good health, then change your dream to see yourself working out and eating right day by day. See the beginning of the dream and let the dream build day by day with all the action that gets you to the end dream of you being in good health.
If you want riches, then change the dream. Dream of yourself going to school, developing a career, working hard and taking the steps to arrive at the destination. If you want love, love the process. Love the dating process(過程). Love yourself and the journey to find love.
Make all your dreams include the beginning, middle and end. Then when you are doing the action instead of thinking to yourself, “This is a drag. I don’t like working out,” or if you are having any negative thoughts about doing the work it takes to create your visions(夢幻), realize then that every step of the way you are living your dream. You are living your dream because you made the action and journey part of your dream.
【小題1】According to the writer, most of the people____.
A.pay more attention to developing their dreams |
B.enjoy the process of their dreams |
C.a(chǎn)re always ignoring the process of living their dreams |
D.probably dream of making much more money easily |
A.struggle with dreams day and night. |
B.have great wishes and thoughts. |
C.have magical forces every night. |
D.take action or steps. |
A.you’d better dream a sweet dream first. |
B.you must love the process of the journey. |
C.you would rather begin with your diet and exercise. |
D.you should have a good beginning first. |
A.It’s important to focus on your final result. |
B.Good mind and action can help you live your dream. |
C.Think to yourself while living your dream. |
D.Creating your visions comes first. |
【小題1】C
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】B
解析試題分析:文章介紹每個人都有夢想,但是大部分人只是夢想的盡頭,而忽略了實現(xiàn)夢想的過程。我們可以通過采取行動實現(xiàn)夢想。
【小題1】推理題:從第二段的句子:Dreaming about the end result is just fantasizing and wishing. 可知大部分人只是夢想的盡頭,而忽略了實現(xiàn)夢想的過程。選C
【小題2】.細節(jié)題:從第三段的句子: We make our dreams come true with the action we take.可知我們可以通過采取行動實現(xiàn)夢想,選D
【小題3】細節(jié)題:從第四段的句子:In my opinion, if you dream about being in good health, then change your dream to see yourself working out and eating right day by day. 可知如果你夢想健康,就要開始鍛煉和合理飲食,選C
【小題4】推理題:從文章的最后一段的句子:realize then that every step of the way you are living your dream. You are living your dream because you made the action and journey part of your dream.可知好的想法和行動可以幫助你實現(xiàn)夢想,選B
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I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓約)mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends. And they are good to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination, I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face, Learn to be happy, And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
【小題1】The best title of this passage probably is______ .
A.Love your friends | B.Live a real life |
C.Don’t waste time | D.Be a good mother and wife |
A.Through social experience. |
B.By learning from her friends. |
C.Through an unfortunate experience. |
D.From her children and husband. |
A.Do it well to serve others |
B.Earn enough money to make life better |
C.Try your best to get higher position and pay |
D.Don’t let it affect your real life. |
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It was Molly’s job to hand her father his brown paper lunch bag each morning before he headed off to work.
One morning, in addition to his usual lunch bag, Molly handed him a second paper bag. This one was worn and held together with staples(書釘).
“Why two bags?”her father asked.“The other is something else,” Molly answered. “What’s in it?”“Just some stuff(東西). Take it with you.”
Not wanting to discuss the matter, he put both sacks into his briefcase, kissed Molly and rushed off. At midday he opened Molly’s bag and took out the contents: two hair ribbons(絲帶), three small stones, a plastic dinosaur, a tiny sea shell, a small doll, and 13 pennies...The busy father smiled, finished eating, and swept the desk clean into the wastebasket, Molly’s stuff included.
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Love in a paper bag, and he missed it—not only missed it, but had thrown it in the wastebasket. So back he went to the office. Just ahead of the night janitor(看門人), he picked up the wastebasket. He put the treasures inside and carried it home carefully. The bag didn’t look so good, but the stuff was all there and that’s what counted.
After dinner, he asked Molly to tell him about the stuff in the sack. It took a long time to tell. Everything had a story or a memory.
“Sometimes I think of all the great times in this sweet life,”he thought.
We should all remember that it’s not the destination that counts in life, but the journey. That journey with the people we love is all that really matters. It is such a simple truth but it is so easily forgotten.
【小題1】Why did Molly give her father a second bag?
A.She didn't want to keep the things in the bag. |
B.She hoped those things would bring happiness to her father. |
C.She wanted to remind her father of the stories behind the things. |
D.She enjoyed playing with her father. |
A.He kept it in the drawer. | B.He took it back home. |
C.He threw it into the wastebasket. | D.He put it on his table. |
A.regretful | B.surprised | C.sad | D.satisfied |
A.An important journey | B.Two bags |
C.Father and daughter | D.Love in a paper bag |
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Many of us feel uneasy when someone stands too close to us, talks to us too loudly or makes eye contact(接觸) with us for too long. But have you ever wondered why those things make you uncomfortable?
It’s all about personal peace, which means not only an imaginary space around the body, but also the space around all the senses. People feel that their space is being violated(侵犯) when they meet with an unwelcome sound, smell or look. This is probably why a man on a crowded bus shouting into his mobile phone or a woman next to you putting on strong perfume(香水) makes you feel angry.
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Although people may need their personal space, some hardly realize it. For example, people on a bus who hold newspapers in front of their faces to read in fact keep a distance from strangers.
Go and watch a library table. You will notice that one of the corner seats will usually be taken first, because they are the farthest way. What if someone sits opposite to you? Maybe you will pile up books as if to make a wall.
Preference(偏好) for personal space are different from culture to culture. Scientists have found that Americans generally prefer more personal space than people from other cultures. In Latin(拉丁人的) cultures, however, people are more comfortable standing close to each other.
【小題1】The writer mainly _________ in this article.
A.tells us how to achieve personal space |
B.explains what personal space people need is |
C.introduces some knowledge about personal space |
D.a(chǎn)rgues for the importance of keeping personal space |
A.A person who has to sit next to a lady putting on strong perfume. |
B.A person who has been watched by a stranger for a long time. |
C.A person who hears strange noises when reading at home. |
D.A Latin boy who is chatting with a friend sitting close to him. |
A.People need a smaller personal space in recent times than before. |
B.People have a strong desire for personal space in recent times. |
C.There are not enough seats on the plane to meet people’s needs. |
D.Food service is better provided than seats on the plane. |
A.The space around the body is more needed than that around all the senses. |
B.If you hold newspapers on the bus, your personal space won’t be violated. |
C.People usually choose the corner seats first in a library for personal space. |
D.Different cultures share the same preferences for personal space. |
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Prof Desai doesn’t recommend finding out failure in order to learn. Instead, he advises organizations to analyze small failures to collect useful information rather than wait for major failures.
【小題1】Why did experts pay little attention to the problem of Atlantis?
A.Because it worked perfectly. |
B.Because the right booster was still OK. |
C.Because nothing serious happened then. |
D.Because fewer people died in the flight. |
A.their planes couldn’t fly high in the sky |
B.they gained much from experience in failure |
C.their planes were often checked by the experts |
D.they were unpopular among passengers |
A.show failure is a better teacher than success |
B.explain why Challenger failed |
C.introduce something about Prof Desai |
D.tell managers how to achieve success |
A.Giving definitions. | B.Making comparisons. |
C.Analyzing causes. | D.Providing different examples. |
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In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to be faced with 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 essential(基本的) to our ability to grow.
These feelings of insecurity and self – doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow. If we do not face and overcome these internal(內(nèi)部的) fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we cease(停止) to grow. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.
【小題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 |
A.judge his ability to grow from his own achievements |
B.succeed in climbing up the social ladder |
C.face difficulties and take up challenges |
D.a(chǎn)im high and reach his goal each time |
A.a(chǎn) new way of taking risks |
B.a(chǎn) new approach to experiencing the world |
C.a(chǎn) new system of adapting to change |
D.a(chǎn) new method of finding ourselves |
A.curiosity and more chances |
B.being quick in self – adaptation |
C.open – minded to new experiences |
D.a(chǎn)voidance of internal fears and doubts |
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Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car, it needs more mechanical(機械的)maintenance (保養(yǎng))as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision(提供)of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what point should you stop treating the old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by pursuing the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try, on the principle that while there's life, there's hope.
When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun.
【小題1】It is implied in Paragraph 1 that______.
A.very old people are able to keep their rooms very clean |
B.social services have nothing to do with very old people |
C.very old people enjoy living with their relatives |
D.very old people would like to live alone so that they can have more personal freedom |
A.personal freedom is more important than health and safety |
B.health and safety are more important than personal freedom |
C.old people should keep their rooms clean |
D.one should not take the risk of dealing with old people |
A.medical decisions for old people should be left to the doctors |
B.old people can enjoy a happy life only if they are very rich |
C.it is always morally right to treat old people and push off death |
D.the opinion that we should try every means possible to save old people is doubtful |
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There are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One’s thoughts must be directed to the future and to things about which there is something to be done.
It is unwise to be too attached to the youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are cold to you.
I think that a successful old age is easiest for those who have strong impersonal interests involving appropriate activities. It is in this sphere that long experience is really fruitful, and it is in this sphere that the wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive. It is no use telling grown-up children not to make mistakes, both because they will not believe you, and because mistakes are an essential part of education. But if you are one of those who are incapable of impersonal interests, you may find that your life will be empty unless you concern yourself with you children and grandchildren. In that case you must realize that while you can still render them material services, such as making them an allowance or knitting them jumpers, you must not expect that they will enjoy your company.
Some old people are afraid of death. But in fact the best way is to make your interests gradually wider and ore impersonal. An individual human existence should be like a river-small at fist, rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider and the banks move back and in the end they become mixed in the sea without any visible break.
The old man who can see life in this way will not suffer from the fear of growing old and death.
【小題1】The author suggests that old people should_______.
A.develop impersonal interests with proper activities. |
B.tell their children not to make mistakes |
C.concern themselves with their children |
D.not give their children an allowance |
A.return | B.reward | C.offer | D.demand |
A.Life is like a river, first small, and then it becomes wide |
B.life is like a river finally flowing into the sea |
C.old age and death are both natural just like a river |
D.old people will be mixed in the crowd like a river mixed in the sea |
A.Setting Sun Is Beautiful | B.Growing Old Successfully |
C.Why Fear Getting Old | D.Caring for Olds More |
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