When my daughter Sara was in the fifth grade，she came to me with a problem.“Marcy hates me！” she cried.“Because Kathy is my friend，too.She wants me to be her friend and nobody else’s.You talk to Marcy.You tell her that I want to be her friend，but I can have other friends，too！”
Oh！I looked at her for a few moments，wondering how I got into this mess，when suddenly an idea came to me.
Picking up two baskets from the living room，I explained，“When everyone is born，he or she has a little basket.This little one here is yours.The big one is mine.As you grow，so does the basket.You can see your little basket is inside mine because when you were born，there were too many things you couldn’t do for yourself.I did everything you couldn’t do on your own.”
She nodded.
“Well，as you grew older and began to do some things on your own，I began placing a few more things in your basket.When you learned to tie your shoes，that went in your basket.”
She said softly，“I can tie my own shoes.”
“Right.As you grow older，there will be more and more things you must do on your own.” As I spoke，I gradually took her basket out of mine and handed it to her.“You will finally carry your own basket with things only you can do.”
She looked up at me and said，“I understand.There are some things that I have to do for myself because they are in my basket.”
1. What was Sara’s problem?| A．She didn’t have a basket. |
| B．She didn’t want her own basket. |
| C．Her mother was too hard on her. |
| D．She couldn’t deal with her friendship. |
| A．Angry. | B．Crazy. |
| C．Helpless. | D．Proud. |
| A．wouldn’t make friends with Kathy |
| B．would talk to Marcy herself |
| C．was too young to deal with anything |
| D．managed to persuade her mother to help her |
| A．gifts given by God when everyone is born |
| B．something that people use to keep vegetables |
| C．growing abilities as you grow up |
| D．friendship that needs repairing |
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【推荐1】You’re standing at a city bus stop, waiting for a bus to arrive. You wait and wait.
What’s going on? Why do buses always seem to come in bunches (成群) instead of at regular intervals (间隔) ?
However, experts who study traffic say that bunching really can happen quite easily.
Suppose many people happen to gather at a particular stop.
Check it out the next time you hop (跳上) a bus!
| A．There’s supposed to be a bus every 10 minutes. |
| B．But you don’t know the exact time the bus will arrive. |
| C．The problem is the different numbers of people at the stops. |
| D．Some people claim that bus bunching doesn’t happen very often. |
| E．And soon after several more stops, the second bus catches up with the first. |
| F．Find the probability that the waiting time is longer than you expected. |
| G．It takes longer than usual for the passengers to board the first bus that arrives. |
【推荐2】In spring, you may be fortunate enough to have good weather, a small piece of earth and the energy, enthusiasm and inspiration to plant a garden. There is nothing better to shake off the boredom and dullness of winter than to dig in the earth, plant some seeds and watch them grow. A small garden can produce something extra fresh for dinner, flowers for the table and a feeling of accomplishment. It is work, but it is ever so rewarding.
What about your life garden? Just as a beautiful garden is a work in progress, so is the garden in your mind. It takes effort, planning, nurturing (培育) and weeding to grow a garden. What have you planted—what have you allowed to take root? Is your life the picture of a well laid out garden or an untidy mixture of plants, trees and weeds whose seeds were blown your way and took root?
We have all heard phrases like “sowing seeds of doubt” or “sowing seeds of discontent”. We can make a careful choice whether to allow them to take root in our lives or throw them out of our garden. Negative energy and words, like weeds, will spread quickly if left unchecked. Find a good “weed killer”—a book, an inspirational story, positive affirmations (肯定) —to help you get rid of the thoughts that reduce the beauty of your garden.
Plant as many seeds of joy and beauty as you can — in your own life and in the lives of the people with whom you live and work every day. Grow a gratitude garden, a peace garden and a dream garden. Look after them daily. If you give them time and energy, you will have a rich harvest of success, happiness and peace of mind.
1. Why does the author tell us the benefits of growing a garden?| A．To lead to the life garden. | B．To introduce a rewarding work. |
| C．To show his love for gardening. | D．To suggest a way to kill boredom. |
| A．It changes all the time. |
| B．It needs our effort and nurturing. |
| C．It can make us happy and grateful in life. |
| D．It is full of both positive and negative energy. |
| A．They are a natural part of life. |
| B．They are often left unchecked. |
| C．They are difficult to be removed. |
| D．They need to be removed before they spread. |
| A．Reading a dull book. | B．Expressing our discontent. |
| C．Having positive selftalks. | D．Pulling up weeds in the garden. |
How do you work smarter and keep work-related pressures from getting to you? A number of possibilities exist.
1.Take a real vacation. Completely being away from work is one of the best ways to recharge your batteries. Any kind of change of scene will help. Taking a class, helping an elderly relative — anything that lets you get off the boring work will help you feel like yourself again.
2.Work out, no matter what. Giving yourself a pass from working out just because you have a busy day is a terrible idea.
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4.Create. Learning how to create in business or anything else can be a tremendous contributor to feeling in control. Identify a creative attempt to apply yourself to and commit yourself to it.
5.Learn to not be hard on yourself. Guilt is one of the most unproductive emotions that one can experience. If you have not been working as well as you would like, being severely self-critical will not help you improve.
| A．Value the rewards of managers |
| B．You will quickly begin to feel better |
| C．If you were the boss, you would reward yourself |
| D．Then, you can go back to working as hard as ever |
| E．Therefore, getting rid of such an idea proves important |
| F．Rather, it will only make you feel as if you will never do better |
| G．You will simply find yourself giving up your workouts all the time |
