1 . What do you feel passionate? What do you love (besides your family, children, and friends)? Our passion often leads us to our purpose in life. For example, am absolutely passionate about helping people work through blocks or barriers such as hurt, guilt, shame, and self-doubt in order to experience the freedom to be authentically who they are.
I believe when you find your passion, you will experience freedom, happiness and, ultimately, less anxiety and more peace. It sounds so simple. However, many people do not really know what they are passionate about because they have lost a sense of who they are. We have spent so much time trying to please others or creating stories about why we can’t do something. What if you could change this? How would your life be different?
Identify and write down the areas you love. Technology, gardening, helping others, inner design, leadership, finances, health, fitness, writing, photography, art, managing projects, and the list goes on.
Look at your thoughts around placing more emphasis on the area where you pursue either personally or professionally. What are you telling yourself? I’m not good enough. I don’t have the time or money. Whatever it is, work on deleting this from your thoughts and replacing them with the opposite statement.
Create more time in your calendar or research what add it information or resources you might need to integrate this more in your life. Maybe it’s getting a coach or instructor to help keep you on track, reduce your fears and work on your limiting conversations. Set goals and make them happen.
Living out your purpose may mean a different job or it may mean focusing your time differently or making your passion more of a priority in your life. We all matter and have a purpose. It’s never too late to create what you want.
This quote by Bob Proctor summarizes what this all means, “Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.”
1. Why does the author mention the questions in Paragraph 1?| A．To introduce the topic. | B．To express his doubts. |
| C．To present an argument | D．To compare different ideas. |
| A．The benefit of passion. | B．The unknown about passion. |
| C．The disadvantage of passion. | D．The definition of passion. |
| A．To explain the purpose of action. |
| B．To demonstrate the value of Bob Proctor’s book. |
| C．To illustrate the process for achieving the goal. |
| D．To remind the readers of the importance of passion |
| A．Passion is the priority | B．Creation is never too late |
| C．Passion leads to purpose | D．Success lies in anxiety reduction |
Carrying the Flame of Inspiration
Excited, proud, and even a little emotional, I experienced a rush of different feelings when I passed the flame of the 4th Asian Para Games in Hangzhou,
Although from different backgrounds, we 600 torchbearers all have something in common: Our deep respect for the para sports movement and the spirit in
“My heart is just like the flame right now. I used to be a kid with
When I was informed that I
1. 你认为什么是成功以及如何获得成功；
2. 你作为学生所需要的成功；
3. 未来你希望成功完成的事情。
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My points of view on success
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4 . This morning I was reading a book outside my favorite beachside coffee shop when an 18-year-old boy sat down next to me and said, “The
He told me he was getting ready to
He asked me many questions, and I
But on my way home I realized the
The
| A．book | B．magazine | C．radio | D．newspaper |
| A．reading | B．dancing | C．chatting | D．singing |
| A．graduate from | B．give up | C．get to | D．look for |
| A．right | B．idea | C．excuse | D．money |
| A．avoided | B．refused | C．doubted | D．answered |
| A．proper | B．strict | C．humorous | D．wrong |
| A．competition | B．experiment | C．argument | D．conversation |
| A．angrily | B．sadly | C．actually | D．bravely |
| A．forget | B．remember | C．waste | D．discuss |
| A．chances | B．choices | C．questions | D．challenges |
| A．when | B．until | C．how | D．though |
| A．reason | B．truth | C．silence | D．cause |
| A．on time | B．at a time | C．in time | D．from time to time |
| A．volunteer | B．imagine | C．change | D．cheat |
| A．similar | B．strange | C．difficult | D．amazing |
5 . Can you remember the first time you received a generous act? I can’t, but I
I was in Grade Four. Fred was a boy in my class who lived in difficult conditions.His parents couldn’t afford to buy him all the stationary(文具) that he needed, and one of the basic items he
Knowing this, my mother said it must have been hard for him to always
The next day I was sent to school with these things and was told to give them to Fred in
To me, it’s okay to let Fred use my pencils. However, my mom realized what a
| A．vaguely | B．hardly | C．clearly | D．typically |
| A．owned | B．lost | C．mentioned | D．lacked |
| A．borrow | B．collect | C．show | D．exchange |
| A．care about | B．rely on | C．cheer for | D．appeal to |
| A．select | B．remember | C．design | D．recommend |
| A．caution | B．person | C．return | D．secret |
| A．surprised | B．confused | C．embarrassed | D．disappointed |
| A．present | B．keep | C．notice | D．treasure |
| A．uncertain | B．unaware | C．pleasant | D．urgent |
| A．fortune | B．difference | C．name | D．commitment |
| A．offering | B．missing | C．bringing | D．finding |
| A．responsibility | B．capability | C．availability | D．possibility |
| A．wisdom | B．benefit | C．contribution | D．approval |
| A．politeness | B．attention | C．permission | D．curiosity |
| A．argument | B．hesitation | C．doubt | D．expectation |
It was the middle of winter some 30 years ago. I was a young father with three little children depending on me. My college education, however, wasn’t helping me to find a good job in our depressed area. My work as a teacher had dried up and now I was working in a saw mill (锯木厂) for just above the minimum wage.
As I got ready to go to work I wrapped band-aids (创可贴) around my fingers and put more in my pockets. Cutting and piling wood for 8 hours a day had caused my fingers to split and bleed at their tips in the cold, dry, winter air. Then I walked down to my car in the snow and hoped it would start.
That day at work was harder than normal. The machines kept breaking down. And we had to rush to catch back up as the wood piled up. On top of it all the heaters in the building weren’t working and we could see our breath as we spent hours chopping, piling, carrying, and packaging the hard wood flooring to be shipped out.
When the work day finally ended, I walked tiredly toward the time clock, took off my work gloves and inspected my aching fingers. The splits were worse than ever and I had bled through the band-aids again. I tried to straighten out but my bad back cramped (绞痛) up as I did. I started my car and drove back home. I looked at the snow and blinked back tears. I wondered how long I could keep doing this, if things would ever get any better, and why life was so hard.
I tried to put a smile on my face as I opened my front door, but instead one appeared naturally. My daughter ran up to me, yelling “Daddy”, and wrapped her little arms around my neck. I lifted her up and my heart exploded with love.
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My tired body didn’t feel so tired any more.
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“Happy birthday!” my wife greeted me warmly.
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7 . Think of somebody you really admire. You will probably find that their success didn’t come easily. As the “Father of Hybrid Rice(杂交水稻)”, Yuan Longping got over great difficulties and spent his whole life working to reduce world hunger and helping to feed the country with the largest population.
Wu Mengchao, the “Father of Chinese Hepatobiliary Surgery(肝胆外科)”, focused on saving people’s lives for nearly eighty years. He performed more than 16,000 operations during his life. Holding the surgeon’s knife for such a long time deformed his fingers, which are not in the shape of normal ones. Wu once said, “It would my greatest happiness if I could work at the operating table until my dying day.”
In 1969, in order to solve the problem of treating malaria(疟疾), Tu Youyou, the pharmacologist(药学家) took on the job as head of a research team. She and her teammates performed different kinds of experiments. However, the results were disappointing. Instead of giving up? They kept trying. Finally, in 1972, they made it! In 2015, at the age of 85, she received Nobel Prize.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb(灯泡) believed that every failure was a step towards success. He once said, “If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong try is another step forward.”
Some people only became successful after their deaths. Not like Pablo Picasso who became famous and very rich during his lifetime, the artist Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting all through his life and that was to a friend. But he kept painting and he painted more than 2,000 artworks in the following ten years. Now his paintings are very popular and they sell for millions of pounds.
One thing all these people have in common is sticking to their goals no matter what.
1. What do Yuan Longping and Wu Mengchao have in common?| A．They succeeded in solving world problems. |
| B．They spent all their lives serving people. |
| C．They achieved a lot in the medical field. |
| D．They are remembered for their happiness. |
| A．changed the shape of his fingers | B．made him feel down |
| C．gave him too much pressure | D．got his fingers cut off |
| A．Pablo Picasso became famous after his death |
| B．Vincent van Gogh painted 2,001 artworks in his life |
| C．it took Tu Youyou’s team about 3 years to reach their goal |
| D．Thomas Edison tried 10,000 ways before he invented the light bulb |
| A．Not everyone can be successful. |
| B．The more difficulties, the better. |
| C．Great achievements aren’t made naturally. |
| D．Great hopes make great men. |
8 . When you measure the distance between towns on foot, walk to places that you thought could only be reached by car, or talk to neighbors with whom you never felt necessary to communicate, it will change your mind! When I
I talked to the new
| A．received | B．failed | C．joined | D．faced |
| A．clear | B．hopeful | C．nervous | D．regretful |
| A．teacher | B．nurse | C．manager | D．neighbor |
| A．workers | B．gardeners | C．farmers | D．gentlemen |
| A．guidance | B．sounds | C．hearts | D．joy |
| A．smiled at | B．looked at | C．quarreled with | D．agreed with |
| A．watch | B．stick | C．hand | D．clothes |
| A．hurt | B．blind | C．amazed | D．disappointed |
| A．admire | B．ignore | C．recognize | D．take |
| A．missed | B．commented | C．desired | D．suggested |
| A．passed | B．lived | C．stopped | D．lay |
| A．friend | B．family | C．company | D．school |
| A．pick | B．touch | C．sell | D．send |
| A．always | B．forever | C．seldom | D．normally |
| A．built | B．discovered | C．repaired | D．climbed |
| A．question | B．tell | C．realize | D．understand |
| A．village | B．house | C．town | D．flat |
| A．usually | B．actually | C．partly | D．completely |
| A．sadness | B．thanks | C．courage | D．pride |
| A．reach | B．leave | C．connect | D．travel |
When I was 14 years old, I was a straight A student in the middle school of our small town. I didn’t try particularly hard, I just went to all my classes and paid attention. I could get good grades with minimal effort. I had a great group of friends too: kids I grew up with, that I had known nearly all my life. We hung out together on weekends very often. It seemed there was nothing to be worried about. I think it was the happiest time in my teenage years.
Then my family moved to the UK just before I went to high school because my father changed his job, and everything changed. I was the only Asian in my class. Overnight, I had no friends, and was in a new country where everyone was different. While trying to adapt to the new surroundings and cultures, it turned out that going to public school in a big city like London was much harder than the tiny classroom in my home country that I was used to. Teachers barely knew my name, and all the other kids thought I was strange because of my accent.
It was so hard to fit in. I went to school alone, ate in the canteen alone, and studied in the library alone. No one even wanted to be in the same group with me in class as I always couldn’t understand what other students were talking about. I would cry all night when I went back home. The only thing I dreamed of was going back to the place I once belonged to!
The class and subjects in the UK were so much different to me. Although I had taken English classes before we moved here, the teachers spoke English so fast that I couldn’t catch up at all! Just as I expected, I started underperforming: I tried so hard, but it just wasn’t working. I studied a lot, but then I’d go to the exam, and would get so nervous. Sweating and trembling, I felt like my mind would go blank. All that effort, and I failed anyway. I started to lose my self-confidence. Maybe I wasn’t good enough.
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An English teacher, Kate, noticed that I was struggling.
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The after-school class really helped.
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10 . Southwest High School teacher Tiffany Messer had visited the U.S. Holocaust (大屠杀) Memorial Museum as a student but saw it from a new angle as an educator looking for new ways to bring an understanding of Holocaust history into her classroom. Messer was one of 221 teachers across the US who attended the 24th annual Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators, a three-day workshop that was hosted by the museum. The annual conference is part of the museum’s ongoing effort to provide educators with the knowledge and skills so that they can bring Holocaust education back to their classrooms in an effective and relevant way.
Messer, now in her third year of teaching at Southwest High School, was looking for professional development opportunities and saw information on the Belfer conference online. It fitted her love for history, particularly European history, and a desire to teach it to her students in the most engaging way possible. One of the things she learned is that bringing a historical event to a personal level helps to deepen the understanding of that event.
Walking through the shoe room at the museum, you can see the massive piles of discarded (丢弃的) shoes that tell the story of the thousands of Jews who died in concentration camps. Their shoes and suitcases are just some of the personal items that belonged to mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. “One of the things they stressed at the conference is you don’t talk about the Holocaust in terms of the people — you talk about it more on the scale of numbers,” she said.
Messer hopes her students will come away from lessons on the Holocaust with a reminder that history is circular and repeats itself. “My goal in teaching them, I want them to become better citizens,” Messer said. “I want them to realize that because one person said others looked different or acted differently, it changed the world in a negative way. We don’t have to do it again.”
1. What does the underlined word “they” refer to in the first paragraph?| A．Educators | B．New ways |
| C．Annual conferences | D．Historical events |
| A．She organized a three-day workshop. |
| B．She has a deep love for Holocaust history. |
| C．She is an educator at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. |
| D．She has been working for Southwest High School for three years. |
| A．Showing pictures of history to students is not useful. |
| B．Never talk about the numbers of people in the Holocaust. |
| C．Shoes left in concentration camps are evidence from history. |
| D．Experiencing historical events deepens people’s understanding. |
| A．People should draw lessons from history. |
| B．History changed the world in a negative way. |
| C．We can find the meaning of life from history. |
| D．Students shouldn’t do things that happened in history. |
