What is success? I am not going to try to explain success. I think a precise meaning is impossible! Is it winning a Gold Medal at the Olympic Games or winning Wimbledon, or being awarded a Nobel Prize? What else? I believe personal success could be anything at all- it does not have to involve public recognition. Who is more successful? A millionaire who is unhappy, or an unnoticed person, who has led a simple, quiet, sincere and happy life? The simplest definition of success, I think, is “to set out to do something and to succeed in doing it.
The first step on the road to success starts with belief. Believe you can succeed and you will. Achieving success in whatever endeavor(努力)you choose may be the goal of life; because it gives you freedom from worry. Could that be?
Success means different things to every one of us. Some people believe it is measured in financial term; others believe it is helping others rather than helping themselves. However, most people are motivated to a great extend by public recognition. How many people are really happy? How many people are really doing what they want to with their lives? Incidentally, to imagine makes us different from animals.
Most important of all, I believe success is a matter of personal growth. If every day you are developing or growing just a millimeter, I believe one is successful. Just being a slightly better person each day for me is success. I’ve got a very long way to go them!
Finally, always remember success is a process and is not simply a matter of arriving at a destination. It’s the journey that really matters. Success is what you become in the often very difficult and dangerous journey down the river of life.
1. What is personal success according to the author?| A．Winning public recognition |
| B．Being an unhappy millionaire |
| C．Something impossible to define simply |
| D．Succeeding in doing what you want |
| A．Intelligence | B．Confidence |
| C．Wealth | D．Kindness |
| A．belief | B．freedom |
| C．imagination | D．success |
| A．What is success | B．No true success |
| C．How to be successful | D．Success is reaching a destination |
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【推荐1】Healthy relationships with your partner and family members can improve your life and make everyone feel good about themselves.
People in healthy relationships love and support each other.
People who are in a healthy relationship talk to each other regularly and listen to each other too. Misunderstandings can happen.
Building healthy relationships with partners, friends and family is good for you.
| A．They don’t just happen though. |
| B．Continuing them is also important. |
| C．It is best to be clear about what you want to say. |
| D．It is important that you both accept your differences. |
| E．They help each other practically as well as emotionally. |
| F．There are other things to consider besides having common interests. |
| G．People who have healthy relationships are more likely to feel happier. |
【推荐2】I was first introduced to Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) when I watched a special on Animal Planet. This non-profit organization is the brainchild of Gloria Gilbert Stoga, a kind-hearted woman from New York PBB is a program in which specially-selected prisoners from prisons are trained in the preparation of puppies to become service dogs for the handicapped(残疾人), or police dogs to serve police forces.
My wife and I were so moved when we watched the program. It is a win-win situation at all points. First, it makes a prisoner, who may never have the chance to be released, go back to the community by joining in this program and offering every minute of every day working, loving, and training a puppy for future service. It is difficult for them, but they realize the importance of this program. In addition, most of them have the chance ( for the first time in their lives) to experience warm love through an animal.
Second, the program saves tens of thousands of dollars that it would cost to train these dogs through traditional ways. All donations to the program are used to buy dog food, training supplies, and veterinary care.
Finally, our society benefits from service dogs which can protect people from danger, search and rescue humans after a serious disaster, or become the lifeline for a handicapped person. The last of these goes far beyond the fact that dogs can open.
Fridges, answer the phone or do a dozen other daily tasks. They give a sense of freedom back to a person who has had it taken away by illness, accident, or warfare.
Because of this we have given a lot of monetary support of this meaningful program.
1. What does the underlined word "brainchild" in Paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Founder. |
| B．Idea. |
| C．Pain. |
| D．Wealth. |
| A．are being trained for the government |
| B．will be adopted by prisoners |
| C．will serve the disabled and police |
| D．can play games with children |
| A．be for policemen and prisoners |
| B．be spent on things for dogs |
| C．be used to train dogs in traditional ways |
| D．be handed out to the disabled |
| A．To ask people to support the police. |
| B．To indicate the significance of PBB. |
| C．To call on people to care for dogs. |
| D．To praise Gloria and her workmates. |
【推荐3】My wife and I were at a crowded grocery store not long ago. It was a weekday evening, cold and wet and tense. People were carelessly blocking aisles, complaining and cutting one another off with their carts. At one point, two women quarreled for several minutes in the freezer section.
Things got worse at the checkout line. The cashier scanned a man’s discount card, but he misread the savings on her screen as an additional charge. He decided she was acting on purpose and began to argue.
Other customers looked away as the cashier tried to reason with him. She called a manager, who took him to customer service. Shaken, she moved to the next customer in line.
We’ve all witnessed uncomfortable scenes like this in public places. My reaction when I see them is both personal and professional. I am a data analyst and sociologist who studies how and why people interact with one another — or why they choose not to. To me, the grocery scene was another example of how our trust in others has disappeared. But it was also a teachable moment on how we can rebuild our faith — starting with just one person.
Therefore, my wife and I reached the disturbed cashier. I grabbed a bottle of water from a nearby cooler and handed it to her. We learned her name was Beth.
“We felt bad about how that man treated you and wanted to buy this for you.” I said.
Beth’s face lit up, and we talked as she scanned our items. She told us she had been working that evening through severe foot pain and would be having surgery later that week. We wished her well in her recovery, and she thanked us as we left.
That is the balancing act, the moment of countering social and emotional pain with healing, that will add up to restore trust across the United States. You can start that pattern in someone else’s life, even in a place as ordinary as the neighborhood grocery store.
1. By describing the arguments, the author wants to show________.| A．the job as a cashier is not easy | B．people in the U.S are unfriendly |
| C．arguments in public are very common | D．trust in each other has worn off |
| A．Sad and regretful. | B．Sorry and embarrassed. |
| C．Cheerful and rewarded. | D．Grateful and relieved. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Optimistic. | C．Uncaring. | D．Cautious. |
| A．A Miserable Cashier | B．A Helping Hand |
| C．Learning to Trust Again | D．Starting a new life |
