When do we realize that we need to change diets? When none of our shirts and jeans would fit us. When do we stop eating candies and chocolates? When all of our teeth have fallen off. When do we realize that we need to stop smoking? When our lungs have gone bad. We see the warning signs and signals when things get rough and difficult.
The only time most of us ever learn about unlocking our self-improvement power is when the whole world is falling apart. We think and feel this way because it is not easy to change, but change becomes more painful when we ignore(忽视) it，
Change will happen, like it or hate it. At one point or another. we are all going to finally unlock our self-improvement power not because the world says so. But because we realize it's for our own good.
Happy people don’t just accept change; they embrace (拥抱)it. Unlocking our self-improvement power means unlocking ourselves out of the box of thought that is just the way we are. It is such a poor excuse for people who fear change.
Jane always tells everyone that she doesn't have the courage to be around groups of people. She heard her family tell the same things about her to other people. Over the years, that is what Jane has believed. Every time a great crowd come, she steps back and locks herself up in a room. Jane not only believes in her story, but lives it!
Self-improvement may not be everybody’s favorite word, but if we look at things in a different way, we might have greater chances of enjoying the whole process instead of counting the days until we are fully improved. Three sessions in a week at the gym would result in a healthier life. Reading books every day would build up knowledge. And only when we are enjoying the whole process of unlocking our self-improvement power will we realize that we’re beginning to take things light and become happy.
1. The writer mentions the three questions in Paragraph 2 to show that .
| A．we learn our lessons when we experience pain. |
| B．we are responsible for the problems we meet. |
| C．life fails us when we get into the wrong way. |
| D．life is a long journey full of ups and downs. |
| A．She needs to remember why she started. |
| B．She has to know how to get on with people. |
| C．She has to realize she is not what she is in her story. |
| D．She needs to understand the importance of confidence. |
| A．the world tells us how to improve ourselves. |
| B．people change when they find it easy to do that. |
| C．welcoming change in life is a drive to become better. |
| D．enjoying the process of self-improvement makes life simpler. |
| A．Is it important to take things light? |
| B．Is it necessary to embrace challenges? |
| C．To hold on to the last moment or to give up? |
| D．To free ourselves out of the box or to stay in it? |
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【推荐1】A little stream (小溪) ran down from a high mountain through many villages and forests. Then it reached a desert, “I went through so many difficulties. I should have no problem crossing the desert,” she thought. As she started, she found herself slowly disappearing into the sand. After many tries, she still failed.
At this time, a deep voice said, “ if a breeze (微风) can cross the desert, so can a river.” It was the voice of the desert. But the little stream answered, “that’s because a breeze can fly, but I can’t.”
“That’s because you can’t give up what you are. Let yourself evaporate (蒸发) into the breeze, and it can take you across.” said the desert.
“Give up what I am now? No! No!” The little stream could not accept this idea.
“The breeze can carry the vapor (水蒸气) across the desert and let it leave as rain. The rain will form a river again.” said the desert. “And whether you’re a river or vapor, your nature never changes.”
Hearing this, the little stream went into the open arms of the breeze. It carried her to the next stage (阶段) of her life.
1. What did the stream think when she reached a desert?| A．She thought she couldn’t cross the desert. |
| B．She believed she could cross the desert. |
| C．She thought she knew well about the desert. |
| D．She started to worry about herself. |
| A．The desert. | B．The nature. | C．The breeze. | D．The stream. |
| A．It crossed the desert. | B．It stopped trying. |
| C．It failed to get to the ocean. | D．It died. |
| A．The stream went through few difficulties before it reached the desert. |
| B．The breeze can carry the stream to cross the desert. |
| C．The stream will change its nature when it turns into vapor. |
| D．The stream crossed the desert after it gave up what it was. |
| A．The road to success is not always easy. |
| B．We should do the right thing whatever others say. |
| C．Our lives can be as difficult as the little stream’s. |
| D．To succeed, we should change the way we used to be. |
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seen.
All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. I immediately felt full of hope and confidence. She took me, a poor, unhappy college student, into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
1. The writer was ________ ten years ago.
| A．a clerk working in a museum |
| B．a teacher teaching in a college |
| C．a worker working in a university |
| D．a university student who had not yet taken a degree |
| A．The girl was poor and sad. |
| B．The girl faced life bravely. |
| C．The writer knew the girl very well. |
| D．The writer made friends with the girl at last. |
| A．Life difficulty. | B．Physical disability. |
| C．Failure in work. | D．Troublesome problem. |
| A．She felt full of hope. | B．She felt life was beautiful. |
| C．She was poor and unhappy. | D．She was filled with confidence. |
| A．Full of Hope | B．Full of Confidence |
| C．A Disabled Girl | D．A Disabled Girl's Smile |
【推荐3】US writer Henry Rollins once wrote: “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
We need to end up the loneliness.
| A．We spend lots of our time on our smart phones. |
| B．In fact, we are all standing the loneliness now more than ever. |
| C．The problem is causing influence on more than 9 million people. |
| D．Actually, in the eyes of artists, loneliness never seems to go out of style． |
| E．But the very first steps to fighting this probpem are to accept it that is being around us. |
