【推荐1】Having a growth mindset means believing that your intelligence, creative ability, and character are more than just what you’re born with. With it, you can increase your intelligence and self-awareness, continually growing as a person. Luckily, there are ways that can help you develop a growth mindset.

Figure out what your gifts are. Your gifts will help you succeed, but they can only do so if you know what they are. Start by thinking about the areas in which you excel.     1     In which subjects did you always do well in school? What are you good at in your job?

Know your challenges. Listen when you receive feedback from others, as that tells you where you can grow. For example, if a friend says, “    2     What happened to the last one? ” you may realize that you aren’t following through on your projects.

    3     Letting mistakes determine your sense of self tends to push you towards a fixed mindset. Mistakes are something you do. But they are not who you are as a person. Separate the two, and you’ll start to learn from your mistakes.

Be willing to try new things. Part of developing a growth mindset is always working to challenge yourself. That means you must try new things. However, when you try new things, you’re bound to make mistakes, which keeps many people from even trying.     4     Focus on hard work, not your natural abilities. Those who think natural intelligence is the only way to succeed are likely to fail. Most people who have major successes work extremely hard to get there, even if they do have some natural talent.     5    

A．What comes easiest to you?

B．You’re starting another new project?

C．Avoiding silly mistakes is a top priority.

D．Remember mistakes don’t define who you are.

E．The best solution is to keep trying and challenging yourself.

F．In this way, you’ll become a successful person just like them.

G．You should think and act like them to continually progress and master your skills.

【推荐2】Time management skills are important for all areas of our lives. But improving time management skills can be challenging.     1     You can run a training course to teach time management, considering ways to help participants learn strategies to organize their lives.

For many people, goal planning is an important part of time management. In a training course, help participants learn how to assess their work and personal needs and set goals for the long and short term. Then, work together to divide each goal into small ones.     2     Talk through ways that each person can use an hour or so each day to prepare for coming projects, thus making their lives more manageable.

A common phenomenon in effective time management is delay. Teach participants to keep a journal that will help them recognize when they tend to delay.     3     Is that because of fear, confusion, or even laziness? Brainstorm ideas to help them out of trouble through teamwork.     4    

    5     Work with them to figure out organization systems that might work for their individual situations. Busy managers might have better luck with a digital organizer than they would with a paper planner. With systems in place to organize communication, files, financial data and personal information, your trainees will be better able to locate the things they need for a new task.

A．How do you avoid?

B．Where do you start?

C．Then, work together to figure out why.

D．They check their emails once every two hours.

E．Hence participants might learn to set deadlines.

F．In this way, you can make them feel less anxious.

G．Disorganized people may not make the most of their time.

【推荐3】Tips for Running in the Morning

There are so many great reasons to run in the morning. It's a great way to wake up and watch the world awaken with you. This is not to suggest that getting into the habit is easy, especially if you're not a morning person. But there are ways to ease you into the routine and in ways you may even enjoy.

◆Teach Yourself Good Sleep Habits

Building a morning running habit starts with a good night's sleep. According to the American Sleep Association, you can train yourself to sleep at an earlier hour if you：

·Plan to go to sleep at the same time every night.

·Avoid TV, reading, or electronic devices an hour before bedtime.

·Avoid coffee or alcohol three hours before bedtime.

·Have a nightly routine, such as a warm bath, meditation (冥想), or listening to calming music.

◆Sleep in Your Running Clothes

It's hard to blow off a run when you're already dressed for it. If you really want to get a jump start and find motivation as soon as you open your eyes, simply wear your running clothes to bed.

◆Put Your Alarm Clock out of Reach？

When your alarm clock goes off early in the morning, you may want to get a couple of more minutes' sleep. If you're struggling to get up, place the alarm clock across the room so that you have to get out of bed to turn it off. The more steps you put between you and the bed, the less likely you are to fall back asleep.

◆Eat Smart

It is never good to run on an empty stomach. After a long night's sleep, you have little to draw upon in the way of energy. If you head out the door having eaten nothing at all, you will likely experience tiredness, muscle pain, shortness of breath, and weakness. Worst yet, you may convince yourself that you're “not made for morning runs，” when, in fact, you're not feeding yourself properly.

1. According to the writer, which is right for building a morning running habit？

A．When to go to bed is not so important.

B．Doing some reading just before bed.

C．Drinking some coffee or tea to calm.

D．Just sitting there thinking nothing at all.

2. What does the underlined phrase “blow off” mean in Paragraph 3？

A．To be taken away by wind.

B．To be removed by explosion.

C．To quit something.

D．To get out of something.

3. What is the real purpose to put the alarm clock away？

A．In order not to be disturbed.

B．To get a few more minutes' sleep.

C．In order to protect the alarm clock.

D．To get up as soon as possible.

4. What is the worst result of not eating anything before morning running？

A．Feeling unfit for running.

B．Feeling out of breath.

C．Feeling very hungry.

D．Feeling extremely tired.

【推荐1】After spending years competing as a marathon mountain runner and cross-country skier, Gudrun Pflueger devoted herself to tracking wolves as a field biologist in Canada’s backcountry.

And her research and encounters with the Canadian coastal wolves led to the 2010 Smithsonian Channel documentary (纪录片) A Woman Among Wolves.

Less than a month after filming along British Columbia's islands, Pflueger, then 33, was diagnosed with a brain tumor (瘤) and told she might have only 18 months to live.

Surgeons removed a golf ball-size tumor, and Pflueger, now promoting her Smithsonian Channel follow-up, Running With Wolves, credits wolves with helping inspire her recovery.

“I really believe the encounter with the wolves in the wilderness was a powerful medicine. They gave me strength,” says Pflueger, now 37, whose life-threatening encounter with a coastal wolf pack was highlighted in the earlier film.

“Most people see them as bad, as killing machines. But they are part of nature. They have some of the same characteristics as we do—determination, courage, a strong will to live.

Running With Wolves was filmed over parts of 2011-2012, while Pflueger was regaining her physical strength. It tracks her inspirational but hard return to Canada's coast.

“It’s rare for filmmakers to go back, but people can relate to this story on all sorts of levels,” says Smithsonian Channel’s chief programmer, David Royle. “Gudrun was a world-class athlete who is fun and energetic. She’s enthusiastic about a species that's been misrepresented. And you come away feeling inspired by her courage and bravery recovering from cancer.”

“We want to draw attention to women scientists. They’re underrepresented at the top level,” he says. “We also wanted to challenge stereotypes (成见) that women scientists are unimportant.”

1. In A Woman Among Wolves, Pflueger is shown as a person who ______.

A．fights against dangerous wolves in the wild

B．recovers from cancer by living among wolves

C．is a marathon runner and cross-country skier

D．studies the behavior of wolves in the wild

2. What was Pflueger’s main purpose in returning to Canada’s coast?

A．To help to film the documentary.

B．To compete as a marathon runner.

C．To protect the wolves from being hunted.

D．To beat cancer by finding inspiration among wolves.

3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 8 indicates that the filmmakers ______.

A．seldom go back when making a film

B．had great trouble filming the documentary

C．filmed another documentary about Pflueger

D．have no plan to film another documentary

4. What does David Royle really mean by what he says in the last paragraph?

A．Pflueger is brave.	B．Pflueger is energetic.
C．Pflueger is outstanding.	D．Pflueger is enthusiastic.

【推荐2】Popcorm Park Zoo is not like most zoos. It is a very special place.

This unusual place was not originally a zoo. At first it was called the Forked River Animal Care Center. The workers there looked after lost or unwanted cats and dogs. Today the center is part of the zoo, but now many other kinds of animals are helped there, too.

The changes to the center began in 1977 when a raccoon(浣熊)needed help. One of its front paws(爪子)had been badly hurt. The workers cared for the animal. Finally it was better, but it could not care for itself. The raccoon was allowed to live there. Then a hurt deer was brought there for help. It, too, stayed there after it got well.

Once people heard about the wonderful work being done at the center, they began taking all kinds of hurt or homeless animals there. Soon it was no longer just a home for cats and dogs. So many animals were living there that it became more like a zoo.

Popcorn Park Zoo got its funny name because many of the animals there like to eat popcorn made without oil or salt. The popcorn is sold there to help make money to care for the animals. People buy the popcorn to feed the animals as a treat.

Popcorn Park Zoo now looks after more than 200 kinds of animals. Many of them live freely there. Some of the gentler ones, such as goats, sheep, geese, and deer, walk among the visitors who come to see them. Others are kept in large closed-in areas almost like their natural homes. All the animals there get care and love.

1. Before 1977, the center was a home for          .

A．lost or unwanted cats and dogs

B．hurt or homeless raccoons and goats

C．lost or unwanted deer and sheep

D．hurt or homeless raccoons and geese

2. How did the workers in the center help the raccoon?

A．They changed its front paws.

B．They cured it and let it live there.

C．They sent it back to its home.

D．They built another home just for it.

3. The popcom is sold in Popcom Park Zoo to           .

A．treat the visitors	B．reward the workers
C．trick the animals	D．raise money

4. What can we learn about animals in the zoo from the last paragraph?

A．They all live in closed-in areas.

B．Some of them can walk out of the zoo freely.

C．All of them are taken good care of.

D．Some of them have already returned to nature.