【推荐1】Our series The Genius Behind will take you inside the minds of people who are making the impossible possible. Whether it is designing the fastest ever land vehicle, helping the blind to see or creating space history, success relies levels of knowledge to new heights . What can we learn about genius from minds? Based on the people and the projects outlined in the series, we’ve come up with five lessons.

Lesson one: New challenges require new ways of thinking

Bloodhound SSC aims to be the first vehicle to break the 1,000 mph barrier. One of the key challenge has been to design the wheels. Thinking twice, Mark Chapman, chief engineer decided to change the way they were trying to solve problems and came up with a wheel design, part car, part jet fighter and part spaceship, which would hold together and was strong enough.

Lesson two: Let evidence share your opinion

Geophysicists widely believed that water on Earth originated from comets. But by studying rocks, Steven Jacobsen discovered water hidden inside, suggesting that the oceans gradually made its way out of the planet’s interior many centuries ago. “Unfortunately, I had a pretty hard time convincing others,” he admits. Only time can tell whether the new theories are true.

Lesson three: It really is 99% efforts

Sheila Nirenberg at Cornell University is trying to develop a new prosthetic device(假肢器官)for treating blindness. “Sometimes I’m exhausted and I get burnt out,” she adds. “But then I get an email from somebody saying that they can’t see their own children’s faces, and it is like, ‘How can I possibly complain? Once I thought of this, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep—all I wanted to do was work’. It gives me the energy to just go back and keep doing it.”

Lesson four: The answer isn’t always what you expect

Sylvia Earle has spent decades trying to see the ocean with new eyes. Her “dream machine” is a submarine that could take scientists all the way to the bottom of the deepest ocean floor what sort of material could best withstand the types of pressure y would encounter thousands of miles below the ocean surface?” It could be steel, it could be titanium, it could be some sort of ceramic, or some kind of aluminium system,” says Earle. “But glass is the best choice.”

Lesson five: A little luck goes a long way

It was considered as one of the biggest success stories in the history of space exploration—20 years of planning ended earlier this year with the Philae lander landing safely Comet 67P over 300 million miles(480 million kilometers)away from Earth, though Philae’s anchoring harpoons(锚定鱼叉)didn’t fire as planned.

As a matter of fact, genius is difficult to define. “Genius is a funny word,” says Nirenberg. “I just sort of ignore it and just go on with life. You just do what you do regardless of whatever label’s attached to you. I don’t know really how else to explain it.

Title: Give lessons to be a Genius
Passage outlines	Supporting details
Introduction	Our series The Genius Behind will bring you to get close to the real genius and learn lessons from their     1
Five lessons     2    genius	●New ways of thinking for new challenges To be the first vehicle to break the 1,000 mph barrier, Bloodhound SSC adopted the technologies    3    to car, jet fighter and spaceship. ●Evidence of shaping your opinion It was a common     4    that water on Earth originated from comets, so it was hard for Steven Jacobsen to    5    other geophysicists of his new discovery. ●    6    of hard work Although exhausted, I would feel     7     to work on the new prosthetic device on hearing from the blind saying that they can’t see their own children’s face. ●The unexpected answer     8    in the ocean, glass is the only best choice to make a submarine that could take scientists all the way to the bottom. ●A little luck for a long way Philae lander was based on 20 years of planning, with Comet 67P safely     9    with a small accident.
Conclusion	In fact, there’s no    10    definition of Genius. Views on genius differ from one another, so you just do what you do regardless of whatever label’s attached to you.

【推荐1】If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis(静止): if our lives were ever in balance—parents happy, kids taken care of, work working—then our overriding thought would be to shout “Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.

Yet work is not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life—just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love.

We have interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients. Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does.

Think of your life’s many different activities as threads. Some are black and some are white. But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance. These activities contain all the tell-tale signs of love: before you do them, you find yourself looking forward to them; while you’re doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself in flow; and after you’ve done them, you feel energetic. These are your red threads, and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric (织物) of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout.

The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column “Love”. And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write down what you were doing in the column “Loathe”. By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your “Love”column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up.

Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best.

1. What is the author’s attitude towards work-life balance?

A．Doubtful.

B．Disapproving.

C．Supportive.

D．Neutral.

2. “Red threads” in Paragraph 4 refer to the activities that __________.

A．arouse your passion	B．satisfy your desires
C．improve your motivation	D．require your efforts

3. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?

A．Red threads are necessary for a balanced life.

B．Recording activities helps create positive feeling.

C．Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance.

D．Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work.

【推荐3】If you need to interview someone for an article but you've never interviewed before, it can be challenging. Here are some tips for preparing for and holding a successful interview.

    1     If the person is a known author or speaker, take time to read or listen to his or her work. Next, write down a list of questions beforehand and consider how the conversation might flow from one point to the next. Then, remember to bring voice recording equipment to the interview.    2    This will also make it easier to include direct quotes when you start writing.

Start by asking your interviewee what he or she does that's relevant to the topic at hand. You should make eye contact with him or her and pay close attention to what he or she is saying. And try to use it to think of more questions. At the same time, you should remember to make it more a conversation than a list of questions.    3    Avoid just reading your questions to the interviewee.

In order to get the information you need, you should control the interview, if the interviewee changes suddenly from one line of thought to another. Lead him or her back to the area you're focusing on.    4    

Try to go into deeper discussion. Experienced interviewers will ask their interviewees about their personal thoughts and reactions to the events and people they deal with.    5    And they are important to an article.

A．Politely ask if you can interview them.

B．Tells them what your article will be about.

C．Do your homework before meeting the interviewee.

D．Personal preferences usually draw interesting and meaningful response.

E．This way you can focus on the interview rather than writing things down.

F．Guide the interview but don't cut in on them with question after question.

G．Use your prepared questions as a guideline to make a natural conversation.