Virtually, there is nothing that man cannot do. Only what he has to do is keep doing and doing without being discouraged. Success will come someday or other, though it may apparently be the conception about something that it cannot be done.
What the world-famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton had done by twelve years’ constant hard work was burnt out by his pet dog. But that could not discourage him a little.
All the great men in history have written their names in golden letters by means of perseverance.
| A．Every action has its reaction. |
| B．It is a unique precondition to success in life. |
| C．In human life, perseverance plays a very important role. |
| D．Their success will always remain as perfect examples to us. |
| E．Columbus has left us an adventurous story of perseverance. |
| F．The task that is easily done at the first attempt is undoubtedly very easy. |
| G．He was able to do it again through years of hard work and perseverance. |
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【推荐1】Everyone knows that the media can be and is manipulated (操控). Everything that we read on the Internet may not always be true. People have constantly been complaining about lies in the media.
Check the domain. Established news organizations usually own their domains and they have a standard look. Many fake ones use similar URLs and domain names, but rather than using a “.com”, they use “.com.co” endings.
Check the comments. Headlines are meant to get the readers’ attention and reflect what the story is about.
Remember, do not believe everything you see, read or hear. False news travels faster online than real news.
| A．Guarantee correct grammar. |
| B．So how can we be smart online? |
| C．But lately, that hasn’t been the case. |
| D．Pay attention to quality and timeliness. |
| E．For example, abcnews.com is a legal news source. |
| F．You can use most search engines to find more information. |
| G．Do not define your opinions and views because of one article you have read. |
【推荐2】Whether shyness is part of your child’s personality or just something they feel when they are in front of a group of strangers, it is a typical (典型的) experience. “Shyness isn’t always as socially valued as more outgoing personalities. However, we should step back and think about different personalities and their unique advantages,” said Pérez-Edgar, professor of psychology (心理学) at The Pennsylvania State University. “Everyone can feel shy at times. And those who are especially shy often have happy social lives—they just aren’t likely to be the liveliest person in a crowded room.”
But there are things to watch out for. “If your children are avoiding situations that are important or could be enjoyable for them because they’re feeling nervous, it might be time to take action,” said Chiappini, a child expert. “That could mean not speaking in class, trouble making friends, or not joining in activities they like,” she said.
Chiappini recommended first saying something like: “You seem a little nervous or unsure about who everyone is/what to say. We haven’t met them before and that can feel a little uncomfortable.” From there, you can encourage them to join someone or say something when they are ready—with the promise that you will be there to support them, she added.
The more we avoid situations where kids may feel shy, the more anxiety (担心) we will have about them in the future. But that doesn’t mean to push your child into the deep end.
“We may have to deal with the situation step by step. For example, you may have to encourage your child just to make eye contact during an outing before expecting them to ask someone a question,” Chiappini said.
1. What may Pérez-Edgar agree with?| A．Shyness is not as bad as people have thought. | B．Children are more likely to feel shy than adults. |
| C．Shy people like to stay with lively people. | D．It’s difficult for people to get over shyness. |
| A．When they ask for instructions from others. | B．When they feel nervous in school activities. |
| C．When they try hard to mix with other children. | D．When they are absent from important situations. |
| A．Tell their kids what they should say. | B．Ask their kids how they are feeling. |
| C．Help their kids stay away from some situations. | D．Show their kids they understand how they feel. |
| A．Honestly. | B．Strictly. | C．Patiently. | D．Confidently. |
【推荐3】A strong memory depends on the health and vitality（生命力）of your brain. They say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks，but when it comes to the brain，scientists have discovered that this old saying simply isn't true.
Give your brain a workout. Memory, like muscular strength, requires you to“use it or lose it”. The more you work out your brain, the better you' ll be able to process and remember information.
Don't skip the physical exercise. While mental exercise is important to brain health, that doesn't mean you never need to break a sweat. Physical exercise helps your brain stay sharp. It increases oxygen to your brain and reduces the risk of disorders that lead to memory loss.
Get enough sleep. There is a big difference between the amount of sleep you can get now and the amount you need to function at your best.
Keep stress in check. Stress is one of the brain's worst enemies. Over time, stress destroys brain cells. Studies have also linked stress to memory loss.
Have a laugh.
| A．Play games with memory. |
| B．Keep a brain-enhancing diet. |
| C．Laughter is the best medicine. |
| D．But oversleeping is not good for your brain. |
| E．Even skipping a few hours makes a difference! |
| F．You have to do some workouts from time to time! |
| G．The human brain has an astonishing ability to adapt and change. |
【推荐1】Katherine Johnson whose life was described in the movie Hidden Figures passed away on February 24, 2020, aged one hundred and two. The 2016 movie describes a real story of some female African-American mathematicians who joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration（NASA）and led a mission to put the first man on the moon in the 1950s when racial discrimination (种族歧视) was widespread.
“NASA is deeply saddened by the loss of a leader from our pioneering days,” said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on the webpage of NASA. “Ms. Johnson helped our nation push the boundaries of space and she also played an important role in opening doors for women and people of color to explore space. At NASA we will never forget her courage and leadership and the achievements we could not have reached without her.”
Johnson was born in West Virginia last century. She graduated from West Virginia State University with a major in mathematics and became a teacher at a public school. She was also the first African-American woman to attend graduate school in mathematics at West Virginia University until she left school to focus on raising children.
Her life changed in 1952 after a long career break. A relative told her about open positions at the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics's Langley laboratory, and she began to work for the aerospace industry at Langley the next year. NASA depended on humans for complicated aerospace calculation as there was no high-functioning electronic computer. Female mathematicians usually took the job as their salary was lower. Johnson was one of those African-American human computers.
Johnson was initially in charge of aerospace analysis and then a space development mission when NASA was launched in 1958. Then she worked for the 1961 suborbital (亚轨道的) flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. Johnson continued to participate in missions after she retired in 1986. Her hidden achievements were finally publicized when Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 and her dramatic life was made into a movie.
1. When was Katherine Johnson born?| A．2016 | B．1918. | C．1952 | D．1958. |
| A．Katherine Johnson was a great leader of NASA. |
| B．Katherine Johnson was the founder of NASA. |
| C．Katherine Johnson had worked in space. |
| D．Katherine Johnson made a great contribution to space exploration. |
| A．There were prejudices against women in the 1950s in the USA. |
| B．Women were better at aerospace calculation than men |
| C．Katherine Johnson became a leader of NASA in 1952. |
| D．There were no electronic computers in the USA in the 1950s. |
| A．an official website of education |
| B．a book about one’s life story |
| C．an advertisement in a newspaper |
| D．a sports magazine |
【推荐2】He was a scientist, an airplane engineer and a general in the United States Army. At one time, he held the record for flying faster than any other person, the first pilot to cross the United States in less than 24 hours and the first pilot to fly “blind,” that is, using only instruments to guide his airplane. And when his country entered World War II, he led one of the first successful attacks against the enemy.
His name was James Harold Doolittle, who was born on December 14th, 1896, in the western state of California. His family soon moved to Nome, Alaska. James was a small boy and never grew to be very big. Yet larger boys made a mistake if they thought being small also meant being weak. James would fight if someone tried to hurt him. And he almost never lost.
As a young man James became a boxing champion and held the American West Coast championship for his weight. He continued to box when he entered the University of California to study mineral engineering. When the US entered World War I, young James joined the army and was trained as a pilot. After the war, he stayed in the army, thinking this would give him a chance to combine his flying skills with his interest in engineering.
For most of the years of the world wars, James was involved in the growth of the airplane industry. He helped test new airplanes, flew longer and longer distances and entered the world-famous air races of the time. In 1989, President Ronald Reagan conferred the Presidential Medal of Freedom on James. The award honored his work in aviation (飞机制造业) and his service to his country.
On September 27th, 1993, James died at the age of 96.
1. What was James Harold Doolittle? (no more than 10 words)2. Why did James Harold Doolittle stay in the army after World War I? (no more than 10 words)
3. What does the underlined word “conferred” in Paragraph 4 mean? (1 word)
4. How old was James Harold Doolittle when he died? (no more than 5 words)
5. What’s James Harold Doolittle like in your opinion? (no more than 20 words)
【推荐3】Women have been making scientific discoveries since ancient times. Twelve women have won the Nobel Prize for science, one of the highest honors in the world. Some women scientists never married, some worked with their husbands, and others raised large families. It has been difficult for women to be successful scientists.
In the early 1800s in England, Mary Anning became one of the first women recognized for her discoveries about the ancient history of the earth. Mary and her father collected fossils (化石)in their village on the south coast of Great Britain. Fossils are parts of plants or animals that have been saved in rocks for millions of years.
When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons (骨架)of several animals that no longer existed on earth. She didn’t become famous for her discoveries at that time because she often sold her fossils to get money to support her family.
In 1891, a young Polish woman named Marie Sklodowska traveled to Paris to study physics. She did so because she could not get a college education in Poland. She began working in the laboratory of a man named Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre Curie got married and made many discoveries together. They received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 along with another scientist. Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel Prize in 1911, this time for Chemistry. Marie Curie was one of the few women at the time who became famous as a scientist.
1. The author believes that women scientists ______.| A．have more opportunities to become successful |
| B．can not get the highest honors in the world |
| C．go through difficulties to be successful |
| D．had better pay more attention to their families |
| A．win the Nobel Prize for Science after getting married |
| B．make achievements in the study of ancient Earth |
| C．research animals and their bones |
| D．study the mystery of all kinds of plants |
| A．nobody recognized them | B．they weren’t worth studying |
| C．she didn’t want to be known to anyone | D．she sold them for money |
| A．She studied physics in Poland and got a college education. |
| B．She received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 on her own. |
| C．She only got one Nobel Prize during her lifetime. |
| D．She made many discoveries together with her husband after she got married. |
| A．Ancient discoveries. | B．Women scientists. |
| C．Successful marriages. | D．Different prizes. |
Parents, teachers and other high-achieving peers will have us believe that we must be perfect if we wish to remain competitive. However, what job or school requires you to develop a cure for some form of cancer by the age of 18? Although these grades would be admirable achievements, are they worth losing sleep over? We feel like we need the perfect grades to get into the perfect college that will provide us with the perfect education necessary to obtain the perfect job. Making use of our thirst for perfection, the whole college and career industries have emerged claiming to help us reach our goals.
Truth is, you only need to be good enough to get into the conversation. It is what you do afterwards that sets you apart. Focus more on your passions. Don’t worry about anything secondary to your passions. You don’t become an expert at anything if you spent your time trying to succeed in everything you do. You only become an expert when you devote your time to that one project that truly brings you joy.
As members of this society, we have a responsibility to be excellent in what we do, not perfect. Although perfection can be a goal, it should not be the only goal. We only have 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week. Thus, we need to plan what we want to do and cut out the activities we cannot do.
With everything, though, make sure you’re doing enough. Pursuing your passions is not enough of a reason to completely give up on everything else. Try as hard as you can and let your future worry about itself. Worry about your task at hand and you will be successful in achieving your dreams. Most of all, remember that you’re going to be okay.
1. It is implied in Paragraph 1 that there is a culture where ________.
| A．Students are driven to learn concepts |
| B．great importance is attached to perfection |
| C．imperfect people aren’t happy at all |
| D．perfect grades result from remembering facts |
| A．a perfect grade is worth losing sleep over |
| B．the whole college and career industries are perfect |
| C．some schools ask students to invent some medicine |
| D．someone is profiting from our search for perfection |
| A．see becoming perfect as our responsibility |
| B．deal with what we hope to do first |
| C．set a goal of perfection in our life |
| D．worry about our future dreams |
| A．How to be perfect |
| B．Being enough is enough |
| C．Finding your own passions |
| D．Giving up your secondary goals |
【推荐2】Sixteen years ago I set out on a path of writing a life skills book for young people and creating a foundation to donate this book to youth organizations and schools. As a high school basketball coach my “mission” was to teach and inspire kids around the world to “Achieve Straight A’s in the School of Life!” I recently turned age fifty and the book is now published in English as well as Spanish; plus, the foundation is launched. The organization is called the School of Life Foundation and the book that we give to kids is called Learn to “School” Your Toughest Opponent. Over the past two years we have placed this curriculum in the lives of close to 20,000 youth across sixteen states and eleven countries. The School of Life Foundation continues to grow each week.
The “Straight A’s in Life” system contained in the workbook has ten steps as follows：
·Appreciate — Have more gratitude in your life
·Assist — Serve others every day
·Attitude — Choose yours each morning
·Aim — Learn to focus by setting goals
·Associate — Make good people a part of your life
·Align — Get organized
·Action — Make things happen or watch and wonder
·Avoid — Stay away from things that will harm you
·Adapt — Turn every challenge into an opportunity
·Always — Remember to pray and ponder each day
My heart and soul is touched every day as I learn of a new story of a young person's life improving by using this journal workbook while “Living the A's” in life!
I am now “Living My Dream” of making a difference in the world. I chose to not give up over the past sixteen years when obstacles and discouragement got in the way. You have to perform with passion!
Your mission in life may be large or small, but is vital to all of us no matter what it may be. What are you doing today to find it? Are you living your dream? I am simply the guy next door encouraging you to get started today!
1. From the first paragraph, we know the writer’s dream is ________.| A．to become a basketball coach in a famous college |
| B．to become a famous writer around the world |
| C．to teach and inspire kids to have the A's school life |
| D．to found an organization to help the poor children |
| A．Appoint. | B．Attitude. |
| C．Always. | D．Aim. |
| A．to help teachers to have the “Straight A's in Life” |
| B．affecting more than 20,000 youth around the world |
| C．to donate all kinds of books to youth organizations and schools |
| D．developing very well and growing each week |
| A．a science book |
| B．a magazine |
| C．an entertainment newspaper |
| D．a guide book |
【推荐3】Imagine reading a story titled “The Constant Pursuit of Alcohol”. You would likely expect a depressing story about a person abusing alcohol. Now imagine reading a story titled “The Constant Pursuit of Success”. That would be an inspiring story, wouldn’t it?
Though it isn’t a conventional medical addiction, for many people, success has addictive properties. To a certain extent, praise stimulates the neurotransmitter dopamine (神经递质多巴胺) , which is shown in all addictive behaviors. Therefore, success is also similar to alcohol addiction in its effects on human.
“Unhappy is he who depends on success to be happy,” wrote Arex DiasRibeiro, a former Formula l race-car driver. “For such a person, the end of a successful career is the end of the line. His destiny (命运) is to die of bitterness or to search for more success in other careers and to go on living from success to success until he falls dead. In this case, there will not be life after success.”
There is plenty you can do to retrain yourself to pursue happiness instead of success. The first step is an admission that successful as you are, were, or hope to be in your life and work, you are not going to find true happiness in your professional life. You’ll find it in things that are deeply ordinary: enjoying a walk or a conversation with a loved one. The second step is to make up for any relationships you’ve compromised (妥协) in the name of success. The last step is to find the right measurement of success. If you measure yourself only by the rewards of money and power, you’ll spend your life running on these and comparing yourself to others. I suggest the better measurements be faith, family, and friendship.
Success in and of itself is not a bad thing. It can bring fun and sweetness to life. But it becomes tyrannical (专横的) when it is a replacement for the relationships and love that should be at the center of our lives.
1. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?| A．Success is determined by many factors. |
| B．People can be greatly addictive to success. |
| C．Success can be really attractive to humans. |
| D．It’s difficult to achieve great success in life. |
| A．It is not wise to end a successful career. |
| B．Happiness is more important than success. |
| C．Successful people usually live a boring life. |
| D．Success may not be the source of happiness. |
| A．To take on a highly-paid job. | B．To hold a high social position. |
| C．To focus on the true meaning of life. | D．To find the right approach to success. |
| A．To show us the importance of success. |
| B．To suggest love is at the center of our life. |
| C．To remind us not to overly pursue success. |
| D．To share his experience in finding happiness. |
