Dogs and horses may not be the closest teammates, but the two animals can have their fair share of fun — at times even playing together and mimicking(模仿)each other's facial expressions, new research suggests. These findings, published in the journal Behavioural Processes, mark the first example of so-called rapid facial mimicry occurring between play partners of different species, and suggest the existence of a universal language of play.
Though the purpose behind play remains unclear, scientists suspect the behavior is to help animals develop hunting and social skills, relieve stress or promote relationships with each other. Learning more about the contexts in which different animals play together could tell researchers a lot about play's origins and development. But apart from a handful of studies featuring humans and their pets, scientists haven't had many chances to analyze examples of interspecies' plays.
In 2018, when someone sent Palagi, an animal behaviorist, a video where a dog and horse play together, interacting with each other fluently, she took the chance to investigate further. The two species were good choices for study, because they both could recognize facial expressions in other animals. Gathering a team, Palagi began to collect and analyze hundreds of other videos where canines(犬类)and equids (马科动物) played together.
At last, 20 videos were picked out: showing animals freely playing on their own, for at least 30 seconds, without human involvement. In the videos, dogs and horses often mimicked each other's moves, jumping, pushing and even biting slightly and naughtily at each other. They also put themselves in weak and easily attacked positions, such as rolling on their backs, displaying their throats and stomachs — a strong sign that they were at ease and even showing their friendliness.
The two creatures also frequently mimicked each other's facial expressions, both adopting the relaxed, open mouths — a behavior that's been noted in wild, social primates(灵长类动物)，but never between a pair of animals of different species.
1. What does the new research find about dogs and horses?| A．No animals have a closer relationship than them. |
| B．They can share fun with each other. |
| C．They have facial mimicry and a possible universal language of play. |
| D．Any other species can be their play partner. |
| A．Scientists can never know the reasons for the plays. |
| B．The plays help animals to survive and socialize. |
| C．Knowing their evolution helps learn about animals' contexts. |
| D．The play between humans and pets isn't included. |
| A．They are perfectly suitable for the study. |
| B．They play longer with humans joining m. |
| C．They show closeness with specific positions. |
| D．They mimic as the wild, social primates do. |
| A．More examples of facial mimicry. |
| B．Study on mimicry of the wild, social primates. |
| C．Facial expressions of different species. |
| D．A possible universal language of play. |
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【推荐1】A man who broke his neck outdoors in freezing conditions survived lying in snow for nearly 20 hours thanks to his dog,who kept him warm through the night and barked for help.
The Michigan man, named only as Bob, was alone when he left his farmhouse on New Year's Eve to collect firewood. Predicting a journey of only several metres, Bob was wearing just long jeans,a shirt and slippers when he went outside, despite the temperature being around —4°C. However, he slipped and broke his neck.
“I was screaming for help but my nearest neighbour is about a quarter mile away and it was 10 :30 pm, but my Kelsey came" said Bob. Kelsey is Bob's five-year-old Golden Retriever. She kept Bob warm by lying on top of him,and kept him awake by licking(舔)his hands and face. Bob said:"She kept barking for help but never left my side. She kept me warm and awake. I knew I had to persevere through this and that it was my choice to stay alive. " “By morning my voice was gone and I couldn't yell for help, but Kelsey didn't stop barking. She was letting out this screeching howl that alerted my neighbour. He found me at 6 :30 p. m. on New Year's Day. ”
Bob's neighbour eventually discovered him after hearing Kelsey's howls and called the emergency services. When Bob arrived in hospital, his core temperature was below 21°C. “I was surprised to find out that I didn't have any frost bite "said Bob, " I am sure it was because of Kelsey's determination to keep me warm and safe. "And to the surprise of doctors, Bob made a quick recovery from his neck injury.
“I am so thankful for my two heroes," Bob said. “Kelsey kept me warm, alert, and never stopped barking for help. Dr Colen saved my life and ability to move. They are truly heroes and I will be eternally grateful. ”
1. Why did Bob wear very little when he went outside?| A．He was alone and poor. | B．He had no enough clothes. |
| C．The firewood was near his farmhouse. | D．The temperature outside is moderate. |
| A．By licking his hands and face. | B．By making use of her own body. |
| C．By lifting Bob on top of her. | D．By keeping barking all the time. |
| A．Warned. | B．Visited. | C．Confused. | D．Scared. |
| A．Cute and brave. | B．Smart and honest. |
| C．Helpful and confident. | D．Loyal and clever. |
【推荐2】Recordings (录音) of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives ( 蜂窝) either recorded or real may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer’s crops.
Years ago, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might stop elephants from eating crops.
But before she asked farmers to set up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would frighten elephants away.
Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next, Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.
From a distance, Lucy turned on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group didn’t react to the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall ( 瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.
Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasn’t tested enough groups yet to know and she has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.
1. What can be the title of the passage?| A．Bees are the King of the Forest | B．How to Keep Elephants Away |
| C．Don’t Get Close to Angry Bees | D．Angry Bees Frighten Big Elephants Away |
| A．To record the sound of angry bees. |
| B．To make a video of elephants. |
| C．To see if elephants would run away. |
| D．To find out more about the behavior of bees. |
| A．Groups of elephants will make bees angry.. |
| B．Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place. |
| C．Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them. |
| D．Young elephants ignore African honeybees. |
| A．works by herself in Africa |
| B．needs to test more elephant groups |
| C．has stopped elephants eating crops |
| D．has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms |
【推荐3】Chimpanzees (黑猩猩) do have stronger muscles than us, but they are not nearly as powerful as many people think.
“There’s an idea out there that chimpanzees are superhumanly strong”, says Matthew O’Neill at the University of Arizona in Phoenix. Yet his team’s experiments and computer models show that a chimpanzee muscle is only about a third stronger than a human one of the same size.
This result matches well with the few tests that have been done, which suggest that when it comes to pulling and jumping, chimps are about 1.5 times as strong as humans relative to their body mass. “But because they are lighter than the average person, humans can actually outperform them in absolute terms,” says O’Neill.
His findings suggest that other apes (类人猿) have similar muscle strength to chimpanzees. “Humans are the odd ones,” he says.
O’Neill’s team has been studying the evolution of upright walking. To create an accurate computer model of how chimps walk，the researchers needed to find out whether their muscles really are much stronger. So they removed small samples of leg muscle from three chimps and measured the strength of individual fibers (纤维).
The same procedure is used to study human muscles. Comparing the results with the many studies on those showed that, contrary to the claims of several other studies, there is nothing special about chimp muscle.“Chimpanzee muscle is really no different than human muscle in terms of the force that individual fibers use.” says O’Neill.
So why, on a pound-for-pound basis, are chimps slightly stronger than humans? The team went on to look at the muscle of chimps that had died of natural causes, which showed that two-thirds of their muscle is made of fast-twitch fibers, whereas more than half of human fibers are slow-twitch. Fast-twitch fibers are more powerful, but use more energy and become tired faster.
Another factor, O’Neill found, is that chimps have longer fibers on average which also improves their strength.
This adds to the evidence that walking uses far more energy for chimps than for people. The results fit well with the idea that early humans evolved to walk or run long distances. It seems that we gave up some strength for greater endurance (耐力).
1. What does O’Neill mean when he says “Humans are the odd ones”?| A．Humans are better at jumping and pulling things than chimps. |
| B．Humans’ muscle strength is different from that of apes. |
| C．Humans are heavier and stronger than chimpanzees. |
| D．There is nothing special about human muscles. |
| A．The evolution of upright walking. |
| B．The slow-twitch fibers in their muscles. |
| C．Most of their muscles being made of short fibers. |
| D．The fast-twitch fibers in their muscles. |
| A．short fibers provide more energy for the muscle |
| B．early humans needed much more energy than chimps |
| C．human muscles are more suited to long distance running |
| D．slow-twitch muscle fibers help chimps survive in the wild |
| A．Chimpanzees have much stronger muscles than us. |
| B．Chimpanzees can jump higher than us. |
| C．Chimp muscle is almost the same as humans. |
| D．Humans can walk longer than Chimpanzees. |
【推荐1】A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common. After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover （揭露）the very nature of the physical world, and the baby is, well, just playing … right? Perhaps, but some developmental psychologists (心理学家) have argued that this “play” is more like a scientific investigation（调查研究）than one might think.
Take a closer look at the baby playing at the table. Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge, it falls in the ground — and, in the process, it brings out important evidence about how physical objects interact (相互作用); bowls of rice do not float in mid-air, but require support to remain stable. It is likely that babies are not born knowing the basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it. Instead, babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experiments and then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact. Though their ranges and tools differ, the baby’s investigation and the scientist’s experiment appear to share the same aim (to learn about the natural world), overall approach (gathering direct evidence from the world), and logic (are my observations what I expected?).
Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way — that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means. For example, it may only be through repeated experiments, evidence gathering, and finally overturning （使翻转）a theory, that a baby will come to accept the idea that other people can have different views and desires from what he or she has, for example, unlike the child, Mommy actually doesn’t like Dove chocolate.
Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation throws light on how children learn, but it also offers an inspiring look at science and scientists. Why do young children and scientists seem to be so much alike? Psychologists have suggested that science as an effort — the desire to explore, explain, and understand our world — is simply something that comes from our babyhood（婴儿期）.Perhaps evolution (进化) provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children. The same cognitive (认知的) systems that make young children feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists. As some psychologists put it, “It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.”
1. According to some developmental psychologists, _____.| A．a baby’s play is nothing more than a game |
| B．scientific research into babies’ games is possible |
| C．the nature of babies’ play has been thoroughly investigated |
| D．a baby’s play is somehow similar to a scientist’s experiment |
| A．scientists and babies seem to observe the world differently |
| B．scientists and babies often interact with each other |
| C．babies are born with the knowledge of object support |
| D．babies seem to collect evidence just as scientists do |
| A．exploring the physical world |
| B．investigating human psychology |
| C．repeating their own experiments |
| D．observing their parents’ behaviors |
| A．Convincing. | B．Confused. |
| C．Confidence. | D．Cautious. |
【推荐2】You are what you eat. This saying has provided scientists with clues about the diet of hominids—our early relatives of 3 million years ago.
Studying carbon atoms locked up in tooth enamel(珐琅质), two researchers argue against the widely held belief that hominids ate little more than fruits and leaves. Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, report their findings in Friday’s Science.
There aren’t many clues for us to know the life of early hominids. The shape of hominids teeth offered the first clues. Large and flat-edged with thick enamel, they looked perfect for eating nuts and fruits, different from the sharp teeth one would want to tear into meat with. The first stone tools, which would help in eating meat, didn’t appear until about half a million years later.
Scientists have also found marks on hominids’ teeth with patterns very similar to those on the teeth of modern-day fruit eaters. Sponheimer and Lee-Thorp tried a new method, looking at the chemical composition of the tooth enamel. They studied the enamel for the carbon-13. Animals that eat grass have higher carbon-13 levels than those eating fruits and other plants.
What they found was that the teeth of the hominids had an in-between amount of carbon-13, which meant not only they were eating fruits, they were eating a lot of grass, or animals eating grass. The lower carbon-13 levels could also come from eating certain types of insects.
But there are people who understand differently. Prof Ungar of the University of Arkansas agrees the study offers new suggestions of hominid diet, but disagrees about the suggestion that meat could explain the lower carbon-13 levels.
One suggestion might be true, though—take good care of your teeth. In 3 million years, a scientist might be using them to figure out what you ate for dinner.
1. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?| A．Protect Your Teeth | B．Where the Hominid lived |
| C．What the Hominid Ate | D．The Formation of Tooth enamel |
| A．lived half a million years ago | B．ate mainly fruits and leaves |
| C．used tools to dig grass | D．had sharp teeth |
| A．the shape of hominids’ teeth | B．the teeth marks of early fruit eaters |
| C．the grass of 3 million years ago | D．the make-up of the tooth enamel |
| A．Hominids possibly ate grass-eating animals. |
| B．Hominids probably had different diets. |
| C．Hominids were basically fruit-and grass-eaters |
| D．Hominids had lower level of carbon-13 in their teeth. |
【推荐3】How will we keep astronauts entertained?
The lucky residents of the International Space Station pull 12-hour shifts,including two and a half hours of gym time and six and a half hours of lab work, among other duties.
Staying entertained is vital because when you're on long space flights,feeling bored can be dangerous.
What will the people we send to space do for fun decades from now?"
| A．Boy,I have no idea. |
| B．It may lead to performance errors. |
| C．It can enable astronaut to accomplish their tasks. |
| D．As a species we can always come up with new ideas. |
| E．We encourage contributions focused on individual needs. |
| F．They sleep eight hours,leaving another four for doing nothing. |
| G．But astronauts might not always have that solid link to Earth. |
【推荐1】When the parcel arrives, the remote-controlled car inside is broken. That could easily result in an unhappy child — but not this time.
The package has come from a British start-up that hopes to equip the nation’s youngsters with an endangered skill: the ability to fix gadgets when they fail. The aim is to encourage 10 to 14-year-olds to try fixing electronic devices and learn how they work, by sending them faulty toys that they have to take apart and repair themselves. The company, Team Repair, has been founded by five engineering graduates from Imperial College London. Having begun as a university project, its ultimate goal is to steer children into careers in science and to nurture (培养) a new generation of engineers and inventors.
“Every month, we’ll send children an electronic gadget with a carefully planned fault,” said Patrick McGuckian, 22, the chief operating officer. “The idea is that they learn key repair skills, and that they also learn the science and technology behind how the components inside it work.”
It is estimated that two million tonnes of electrical and electronic items are thrown away in the UK each year. “Meanwhile, the UK has a Stem [science, technology, engineering and maths] skills shortage costing£1.5 billion a year,” McGuckian said. “We wanted to help solve those two problems.”
The service — currently in a testing phase — will cost £28 a month, with each kit designed to keep a child occupied for several hours. Once a gadget has been mended, you post it back so it can be broken again for somebody else to fix. There is also an app to provide instructions on how to perform the repair, and also mini science lessons. “As a society we’ve been tuned to replace rather than repair,” McGuckian said. “We want to encourage a different mindset in the next generation — and on top of that, we want them to be creative, to be engineers, to be inventors that solve the biggest problems.”
1. Why does the author mention the remote-controlled car in the first paragraph?| A．To introduce the topic. | B．To present a fact. |
| C．To make a comparison. | D．To explain a point. |
| A．To provide children with faulty toys. | B．To reduce the use of electronic items. |
| C．To help children learn Stem skills for free. | D．To equip children with the ability to repair. |
| A．The gadget after being repaired. | B．Face-to-face guidance to mend. |
| C．Some mini science lessons online. | D．A faulty electronic gadget weekly. |
| A．Broken Toys Have a Good Place to Go | B．Team Repair for Young People was Set Up |
| C．The Ability to Fix Gadgets is to be Improved | D．Broken Toys Offer Neat Fix for Skills Shortage |
【推荐2】For Deaf People, Face Masks with Windows Mean More Than Smiles
For the last few months, Michael Conley has felt very alone. Conley is a deaf man, and he reads lips to understand what people are saying to him. However, people have been wearing masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19, a new virus that spreads from person to person when infected people breathe out virus particles (颗粒).
People who are deaf and hard of hearing communicate in many different ways. Some might learn to read lips. Many people also use American Sign Language (ASL). It is a way to communicate using gestures and signs for people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
For both reading lips and ASL, being able to see someone's face and facial expressions is critically important. Particularly for ASL, facial expressions play a role in grammar and wording.
Helping Lip Readers See Mouths Move
Conley told his co-worker, Chris LaZich, about his situation. LaZich asked her friend, Helton, for help. Ingrid Helton is a costume designer with the San Diego Opera. She makes masks with plastic windows for hearing people to wear, making it possible for lip readers to see mouths move.
For a long time, lip readers have struggled to understand hospital workers who wear masks. The problem has only gotten worse during COVID- 19. Many interpreters for the deaf have not been able to enter hospitals because they could catch the virus.
More Challenges For Deaf People
Now, more people are wearing masks outside of hospitals, too. This creates even more challenges for deaf people.
When people began wearing masks, Conley felt cut off from the world. Since he could not read lips, he did not know when people were speaking to him or what they were saying.
Conley was nervous to go to the pharmacy or the grocery store. Once, he felt so nervous to enter his favorite restaurant that he waited outside for 45 minutes. He did not know what he would do if a masked worker asked him questions about his order. Luckily, the employee recognized him and pulled down her mask to talk to Conley. Conley was grateful for her action.
Not everyone knows Conley, though, and would not know he is deaf. He carries pieces of paper with him so he can ask people to write what they are saying. This way, other people don't have to remove their mask. However, it also means touching the same paper, Touching common surfaces can spread germs. Spreading germs risks contracting COVID-19. Because of that, Conley was refused service many times.
“It makes you lose your confidence,” said Conley, who has been deaf his entire life. However, Helton's windowed masks helped him get his independence back. Conley and his co-worker, Chris LaZich, tried out the masks and he had no trouble reading LaZich's lips.
1. Where can you probably read the passage?| A．In a newspaper. | B．In a diary. |
| C．In a guidebook. | D．In a medical report. |
| A．He felt the situation couldn't be changed. | B．He felt it difficult to recognize people. |
| C．He felt cut off from the world. | D．He felt lonely and angry. |
| A．To help them meet other deaf people. | B．To keep them safe from COVID-19. |
| C．To comfort them emotionally. | D．To satisfy their social needs. |
| A．Soon she started her company called Happy Laugh Masks. |
| B．The windowed masks helped slow the spread of the virus. |
| C．Through her mask's window, LaZich smiled at him. |
| D．Helton said store owners liked the masks as well. |
【推荐3】If you think you’d like to live on Mars, you may have that possibility by 2023. A Dutch company called Mars One will soon advertise for people interested in colonizing (开拓) Mars. If you have all the necessary skills, you could be one of the first colonists. Are you ready for the challenge?
You won’t have to pay for the mission to Mars. Mars One has already received money from some donors and is hoping to get more from TV viewers who will become interested in the show where all applicants have a debate for the rare chances.
The main responsibility of the first colonists is to create an artificial environment on Mars where there is no air to breathe and no land to farm. Scientists know it’s quite possible because something similar has already been done in Antarctica.
Another problem is that space travel to Mars takes nearly a year to get to Mars and the colonists will live the rest of their lives there. When a human lives in an environment without gravity or with low gravity for a long time, the systems in the body weaken. Luckily, spinning (旋转) the spaceship can create artificial gravity, and artificial gravity can ease these problems. It will also be difficult for Mars colonists to be far from home, living in small spaces, and seeing the same people over and over. Colonists with depression could put the mission in danger. Fortunately, a few years ago, a joint Russian and European project called the Mars 500 Mission studied people’s reactions in a Mars-like environment. It is viewed as a great success because scientists were able to see how people handle emotional and physical stresses.
Recent studies show that seven percent of people would want to go on such an adventure. Mars One will soon start accepting its first colonists. Are you interested?
1. What do we know about the applicants to Mars from the first two paragraphs?| A．They will land on Mars in 2023. |
| B．They can get money from donors. |
| C．They will compete in a TV show. |
| D．They do not need special skills. |
| A．To create an earth-like environment. |
| B．To build labs in Antarctica. |
| C．To spin the spaceship. |
| D．To start the Mars 500 Mission. |
| A．Easy. | B．Adaptable. | C．Relaxing. | D．Exciting. |
| A．Everyone could be one of the first colonists on Mars. |
| B．Artificial gravity can make the colonists live better. |
| C．People can’t handle emotional and physical stresses on Mars. |
| D．Half of people would want to go on Mars. |
【推荐1】In the Amazon rainforest of Venezuela, Yanomami hunter-gatherers exist on cassava, palm hearts and wild bananas. They also hunt frogs and monkeys using techniques that would have been familiar to their ancestors 11,000 years ago. The extraordinary continuity of their culture, and the fact that some of the groups have had little contact with outsiders, led biologists to wonder whether the Yanomami might reveal what the human digestive system looked like before industrialization supplied the world with processed foods and antibiotics.
In 2019, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine had a chance to find the answer in a previously unknown Yanomami village. Health workers collected feces (排泄物) from about 30 villagers. When the researchers cultured and analyzed microbes (微生物) from the feces in their laboratory, they discovered whole categories of bacteria that were absent from the guts (肠道) of people from industrialized countries. Even more strikingly, they found the microbial population in the average Westerner to be about half as diverse as the community inside these hunter-gatherers. The researchers realized that the microbes might have implications beyond basic science. People’s microbial communities are believed to play a role in disorders like obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, which shorten lives and overburden health care systems. These disorders don’t trouble these preindustrial hunter-gatherers, however. Therefore, researchers want to learn which microbes protect them and figure out how to reintroduce them in modern societies. It has the potential to affect health more profoundly than the discovery of the fabled Fountain of Youth.
But the opportunity might be more fleeting than youth itself. “The world is becoming urban so fast.” says microbiologist Maria Gloria, co-author of the study that reveals the Yanomami microbiome (微生物群). “Our lifestyles are killing microbial diversity.” Although nobody has yet determined exactly what the Yanomami mystery bugs are doing and how they improve an individual’s health, she believes that scientists need to collect and preserve as many microbes as possible for future breakthroughs. “We cannot afford to wait,” she says, “or we’ll have lost the high diversity of the human microbiome of traditional peoples before we understand how to use the microbiome to improve health.”
1. What did the researchers find out in 2019?| A．The hunter-gatherers had a different digestive system. |
| B．Microbial communities were to blame for many disorders. |
| C．People from industrialized countries had less diverse microbes. |
| D．Some categories of bacteria did not exist in the villagers’ guts. |
| A．By collecting health data. |
| B．By conducting experiments. |
| C．By interviewing the villagers. |
| D．By recording the Yanomami’s daily life. |
| A．The opportunity seems more precious than youth. |
| B．The opportunity enables people to stay young forever. |
| C．The opportunity is of great significance to modern society. |
| D．The opportunity disappears so quickly that we cannot afford to miss it. |
| A．We are close to solving the mystery of Yanomami microbiome. |
| B．Processed foods and antibiotics have changed human digestive system. |
| C．Treating diseases by introducing beneficial bacteria has been made possible. |
| D．The discovery of those microbes will help cure many life-threatening diseases. |
【推荐2】Blind imitation is self-destruction. To those who do not recognize their unique worth, imitation appears attractive; to those who know their strength, imitation is unacceptable.
In the early stages of skill or character development, imitation is helpful. When I first learned to cook, I used recipes and turned out some tasty dishes. But soon I grew bored. Why follow someone else’s way of cooking when I could create my own? Imitating role models is like using training wheels on a child’s bicycle; they help you get going, but once you find your own balance, you fly faster and farther without relying on them.
In daily life, imitation can hurt us if we subconsciously hold poor role models. If, as a child, you observed people whose lives were bad, you may have accepted their fear and pain as normal and gone on to follow what they did. If you do not make strong choices for yourself, you will get the results of the weak choices of others.
In the field of entertainment, our culture glorifies celebrities. Those stars look great on screen. But when they step off screen, their personal lives may be disastrous. If you are going to follow someone, focus on their talent, not their bad character or unacceptable behaviors.
Blessed is the person willing to act on their sudden desire to create something unique. Think of the movies, books, teachers, and friends that have affected you most deeply. They touched you because their creations were motivated by inspiration, not desperation. The world is changed not by those who do what has been done before them, but by those who do what has been done inside them. Creative people have an endless resource of ideas. The problem a creator faces is not running out of material; it is what to do with all the material knocking at the door of imagination.
Study your role models, accept the gifts they have given, and leave behind what does not serve you. Then you can say, “I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors’ tragedies and declare victory, and know that they are cheering me on.”
1. To avoid the bad result of imitation, we should _______.| A．stay away from stars | B．forget daily fear and pain |
| C．choose the right example | D．ask others for decisions |
| A．desperate to influence others with their knowledge | B．eager to discover what their ancestors did |
| C．willing to accept others’ ideas | D．ready to turn their original ideas into reality |
| A．how to use imagination creatively | B．the lack of strong motivation |
| C．how to search for more materials | D．the absence of practical ideas |
| A．To compare imitation with creation. | B．To highlight the importance of creativity. |
| C．To criticize the characters of role models. | D．To explain the meaning of success. |
【推荐3】It is not easy to find success in life, but if you have the right knowledge and mindset, there is no reason why you cannot seek out your goals in life. To help you out, we have put together a list of books that you absolutely must read to achieve success.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleStephen R. Covey
This is one of the best self-help books that you will find when you are looking to achieve success. The author informs the reader that the key to success is finding the right balance in your personal and professional life.
What makes the Great Ones GreatDon Yaeger
The author of this self-help book asked more than 2,500 highly successful people how they managed to reach the top. The end result was a lot of inspiring motivational quotes and insights that focus on not only being good but always seeking out more goals and challenges.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
This is an inspirational book because as its reader you begin to realize that the key to success is in the ability to develop the ability of self-reflection. As a result, you will have full control over your emotions and therefore will be equipped with the ability to identify problems and find solutions that bring happiness.
How to Win Friends and Influence peopleDale Carnegie
A groundbreaking book written in 1937, it remains required reading at colleges and universities everywhere, especially in business schools. The key takeaway is that success comes when you are able to handle people the right way. This means using powers of persuasion to get them to see your point of view.
1. Who believes a work-life balance is essential to success?| A．Don Yaeger | B．Dale Carnegie | C．Travis Bradberry | D．Stephen R. Covey |
| A．Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | B．What makes the Great Ones Great |
| C．The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | D．How to Win Friends and Influence people |
| A．Setting realistic goals. | B．Practicing self-reflection. |
| C．Keeping a positive mind. | D．Having good communication skills. |
