1 . All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up every day. If we expect that life won’t be perfect,
Whether it’s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic event in your life,
Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time.
There are endless examples.
A.What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. |
B.we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. |
C.these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself. |
D.Some are either there or in wait just around the corner. |
E.we’ll learn to accept imperfection and compromise with reality. |
F.But history is made by people facing hurdles but achieving greatness. |
G.People faced adversity bravely, learned valuable lessons and moved ahead. |
Lifestyles differ from person to person. Some people, known as
3 . The Happy Man
The happy man lives objectively, and has free love and wide interests, through which he secures his happiness. To be the receivers of love is a vital cause of happiness, but the man who demands love is not the man to whom it is given.
What then can a man do who is unhappy because he is enclosed in self? If he is to get out of the vicious (恶性的) circle of unhappiness, it must be by true interests. But before that, he should analyze his trouble first.
Admit to himself every day at least one painful truth.
All unhappiness depends upon lack of integration (融合). There is disintegration within the self,consciously and unconsciously or between the self and society.
A.There is much he can do about it. |
B.The man who receives love is the man who gives it. |
C.The interests will arise when you overcome being self-centered. |
D.The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. |
E.Teach himself life is worth even not having great virtue or intelligence. |
F.Self-denying leaves a man self-absorbed and aware of his own sacrifice. |
G.Neither divided against the self nor the world, the happy man never fails to unite. |
4 . As you work to develop your career (事业), whether you are applying for a job right now or planning what you will do in the future, three things are vital: your passion (激情), your value and your goals. These are three obvious but related beliefs that you need to both know for yourself and be able to communicate to others.
Passion is what drives you. Your passion is what brings a smile to your face, what lights your creative engine and what makes you approach a problem with passion. Your passion could be for a specific field, profession, industry, customer, type of problem, or some combination.
Goals are what you want to do.
Knowing your passion can help you better define (界定) your value and clarify your goals. And understanding your goals can help you go better to your passion and pronounce your value.
A.But what are they exactly. |
B.Thus how can we behave properly. |
C.Value is what you offer to a partner. |
D.Your goals may be personal or professional, a big picture or otherwise. |
E.When your work performs your passion, it’s no need rewarding yourself. |
F.Whatever your career is, you are to learn cooperation and communication. |
G.The more you know about these three, the better you can build your career. |
5 . Think about that. If you are anything like me, you struggle to ask for help when you need it. It’s something a lot of humans battle with. You don’t want to be a burden on others. You are afraid to speak up, or want to prove that you can do it yourself.
You don’t ask for help when you don’t know how to do something or can’t manage it on your own, because you might be afraid of looking stupid or incompetent. You might pretend like you know what you’re doing when you’re really drowning. Perhaps you think asking for help is a sign of weakness; that if you ask for help you’re admitting you’re inadequate in some way; that you lack knowledge, skill or experience to do something yourself. You don’t want anyone to see that you’re struggling and you want people to think that you’re in control and can handle things.
There are tons of reason you won’t ask for help, but not to do so can be a mistake. You get in your own way if you make asking for help mean something negative about you when it doesn’t. Asking for help doesn’t mean you’re stupid or inadequate. It simply means you need help with something specific for a time.
Confident people often ask others for help. They do so not only because they’re secure enough to let it be known they need help, but they know that trying to do everything themselves is not always the best use of their time, skills or energy. They recognize it can leave them feeling overwhelmed and stressed and then they can’t do things properly. Confident people find someone who’s good at what they need to learn or get done and then ask for their help and guidance. They know that asking, “Can you help me?” shows respect for the other person’s knowledge and abilities. Otherwise, they wouldn’t ask.
1. What is the author’s personality like?A.He shows great love to others. | B.He hesitates to ask others for help. |
C.He looks down upon other people. | D.He dislikes those who pretend to know. |
A.Indifferent. | B.Unqualified. | C.Determined. | D.Devoted. |
A.offer help to other people | B.respect others’ abilities |
C.promote their abilities | D.turn to others for help |
A.advise us to learn more knowledge | B.encourage us to bravely ask for help |
C.show our respect to the people around us | D.encourage us to be more confident in our life |
6 . Very occasionally, I escape to the city. Boarding the train, I watch the North Sea flash by and disappear. I like to stare out of its window and look for deer standing in fields, or the sight of a red kite in the sky.
When I am here, the possibilities who I could become feel endless. The streets are filled with sights and sounds that leave me breathless and hungry for more.
At home, most of the diversity lies in the landscape. The beautiful vastness of Northumberland feeds my reflective soul and taps into my creativity, but I am an outgoing person who enjoys being with others.
Following an escape, I return to writing alone at my desk, watching the sky burn pink outside as candles shine and daughters sleep inside.
A.I absorb all in and feel less ordinary. |
B.It is this that I miss the most about the city. |
C.Choosing to escape now is definitely not a wise choice. |
D.Some people are confused about the concept of escaping to a city. |
E.With the train travelling forward, what is shown in front of me varies. |
F.Many of the conveniences of the cities cannot be enjoyed in the villages. |
G.I wonder what lives these people are leading and form stories in my head. |
7 . Nearly five years ago, I booked a retreat (僻静处) to work on my book, Tracking Wonder. I knew I worked best with limited distraction, but when I finally was able to carve time away from the world to do this creative work, I found it very difficult to focus.
Ⅰ. Reboot(重启) your mental health.
Just as our muscles need rest days between workouts to grow stronger, our minds need periods of idleness to process the world around us.
Innovators in times of crisis and adversity actually grant themselves space to be bored and daydream deliberately. This kind of daydreaming can lead to positive mental feelings of hope, renewal, and forward motion, but it requires boredom and space.
Ⅱ.
The capacity to be bored and the capacity to be creative go hand in hand. Want to increase your creativity?
Ⅲ. Reconnect with what matters to you.
These days, current events—and the resulting analysis, opinions, and Twitter hot takes—come at us so quickly that it’s difficult to process one issue before the next takes its place.
A.Become more creative. |
B.I completely lacked creativity. |
C.Here are three ways to release your creativity. |
D.The answer may not be more stimulation, but less. |
E.Reach for our phones to check a fact during a conversation. |
F.Learning to let yourself be bored can have three surprising benefits. |
G.But to truly be an informed citizen, you need to allow time for idleness. |
Why people like to climb Qomolangma?
When I first look at the picture, it seems to be just a pretty simple drawing of a man in a garden. However, when
In the picture, a man is wearing a hat and an apron, and is carrying an umbrella because it is raining
This implies that this man obviously loves routines (and his flowers), and probably
The overall message we can take from this picture is that it is important
10 . It should have at least been a dunk (扣篮). Everyone in the area knew it as the tall, wonderful
Never mind that he was
Later that evening I was doing some filing (归档) when I paused to reread a column from several weeks ago. I stopped when I
My eyes went
I guess it’s
A.professor | B.athlete | C.performer | D.announcer |
A.prevent | B.discourage | C.take | D.differ |
A.touched | B.scored | C.paused | D.failed |
A.walking | B.running | C.driving | D.turning |
A.supporting | B.crazy | C.opposing | D.enthusiastic |
A.possibility | B.chance | C.excuse | D.problem |
A.knew | B.complained | C.worried | D.doubted |
A.laughed | B.stared | C.aimed | D.shouted |
A.Obviously | B.Unfortunately | C.Importantly | D.Finally |
A.checked out | B.came across | C.missed out | D.learnt about |
A.column | B.word | C.condition | D.error |
A.connected | B.next | C.useful | D.first |
A.way | B.number | C.place | D.key |
A.before | B.until | C.after | D.when |
A.suddenly | B.properly | C.directly | D.willingly |
A.unexpected | B.strange | C.terrible | D.familiar |
A.clear | B.true | C.important | D.probable |
A.perfection | B.surprise | C.impression | D.success |
A.yet | B.ever | C.also | D.never |
A.words | B.faults | C.behaviour | D.absence |