Someone sent me an email urging me to acquire...

Someone sent me an email urging me to acquire a lot more resources,suggesting could do so much more good if I had an 8 or 9 figure net income of 6 like I’ve been doing for years.He claimed to have acquired a great deal of wealth himself and found it highly beneficial to fueling his path with a heart.

As I consider his suggestion,I find myself not having much clarity(清晰的思维)as to what I'd do with I million or 10 million more money flowing through my life.I put so much attention on creativity,fulfillment,exploration,relationships,etc.that I find it difficult to intelligently imagine how more financial resources could provide extra fuel for that,except in small ways or in ways that aren’t particularly meaningful to me.

Lately I've been considering what it would be like to deliberately reduce my income for a while and see if I could live on much less，just for the experience.What if I capped my net personal income at $10,000 per year,for instance? That isn’t such a big deal to me, though, since I already went through a period of low income like that during the 1990s,and I learned that I could still do what I love regardless of income.

I've never worked in a business environment-the only job I've ever hadwas working for $6/hour in a video game store while I was in college. So I’ve never seen how larger operations allocate resources. That's probably why I haven’t pushed myself to acquire more. As I mentioned in my book.Money and Your Path With a Heart，my main financial goal in life was to make money irrelevant in　 my life.

I’m not interested in building an empire.What interests me is exploring personal growth and sharing what I learn along the way. In some ways I feel that acquiring and acquiring and allocating more resources could become a big distraction. I’m already doing what I want to be doing,so why rick distracting myself to acquire more resources,especially when I lack the idea about how I should treat such resources? I like having freedom and flexibility，and I don't really see how more resources would meaningfully improve that.

1.Why did the man email the author?

A. To ask the author to fuel his path.　　 B. To lend some money to the author.

C. To share his opinion about wealth.　　 D. To urge the author to earn more money.

2.Which of the following can describe the author's personality?

A. Optimistic and devoted.　　 B. Independent and cooperative.

C. Unfortunate but positive.　　 D. Wealthy but hardhearted.

3.What does the underlined word“capped” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Limited　　 B. Spent

C. Increased　　 D. Distributed

4.The following are true EXCEPTA________.

A. the author might be a professional writer

B. the author is good at designing video games

C. the author is interested in exploring his personal growth

D. the author might be a person who likes sharing his knowledge

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Someone sent me an email urging me to acquire a lot more resources, suggesting that I could do so much more good if I had an 8 or 9figure net income (净收入) instead of 6 like I’ve been doing for years. He claimed to have acquired a great deal of wealth himself and found it highly beneficial to fueling his path with a heart.

As I consider his suggestion, I find myself not having much clarity (清晰的思维) as to what I’d do with 1 million or 10 million more money flowing through my life. I put so much attention on creativity, fulfillment, exploration, relationships, etc. that I find it difficult to intelligently imagine how more financial resources could provide extra fuel for that, except in small ways or in ways that aren’t particularly meaningful to me.

Lately I’ve been considering what it would be like to deliberately reduce my income for a while and see if I could live on much less, just for the experience. What if I capped my net personal income at $10,000 per year, for instance? That isn’t such a big deal to me, though, since I already went through a period of low income like that during the 1990s, and I learned that I could still do what I love regardless of income.

I’ve never worked in a business environment — the only job I’ve ever had was working for $ 6/hour in a video game store while I was in college. So I’ve never seen how larger operations allocate resources. That’s probably why I haven’t pushed myself to acquire more. As I mentioned in my book Money and Your Path With a Heart, my main financial goal in life was to make money irrelevant in my life.

I’m not interested in building an empire. What interests me is exploring personal growth and sharing what I learn along the way. In some ways I feel that acquiring and allocating more resources could become a big distraction. I’m already doing what I want to be doing, so why risk distracting myself to acquire more resources, especially when I lack the idea about how I should treat such resources? I like having freedom and flexibility, and I don’t really see how more resources would meaningfully improve that.

1.Why did the man email the author?

A. To urge the author to earn more money.　　 B. To lend some money to the author.

C. To share his opinion about wealth.　　 D. To ask the author to fuel his path.

2.Which of the following can describe the author’s personality?

A. Wealthy but hardhearted.　　 B. Independent and cooperative.

C. Unfortunate but positive.　　 D. Optimistic and devoted.

3.What does the underlined word “capped” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Increased　　 B. Limited　　 C. Spent　　 D. Distributed

4.The following are true EXCEPT ________.

A. the author might be a professional writer

B. the author is interested in exploring his personal growth

C. the author is good at designing video games

D. the author might be a person who likes sharing his knowledge

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Yesterday my aunt sent me an email _______she told me she would come to see me next week.

A. which　　　　 　　　　 　 B. where

C. that　　　　　　　　 　 　 D. when

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(2013·九江一模)My brother sent me an email with one of his photos on Mount Tai ________ to it.

A．attached      B．attach

C．attaching      D．to attach

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I’m 47 years old. Two days ago, you sent me an email, which I did not answer. I didn’t answer it, in part, because I am 47 years old.

I almost answered your email after bedtime, which is when I have often answered emails. My laptop was put on my bedside table. My husband sat on his side of the bed, and he leaned back and asked me if I’d given any thought to whether the chickens would need to be kept away from the apple trees after he sprayed them with something to keep the bugs away.

We moved on to the children’s math grades, then to the way they just take their socks off and leave them, inside out, no matter where they are. I looked at the clock and saw that it was not as early as I’d thought, not for a lot of things, and so we turned off the light, and I did not answer your email.

Your email sat among emails from bosses and editors and orthodontists all through the next workday. My children were at school, and I had not yet managed to write 300 words nine more times. I thought about answering your email in the afternoon, while my older daughter and I waited outside the school for her sister to finish a piano lesson. My daughter probably would not have minded. She is almost 13, and sometimes, when she sits in the house texting while I try to talk to her, I sprayed her with the bottle I keep on the counter to spray the cats when they start scratching the back of the sofa. I could have answered your email then. I admit it. We could have sat there, in peaceful silence, each staring at our phone. I had time to answer your email, and I did not.

I snuggled(依偎) my youngest son at bedtime that night, because he asked. I snuggled him even though your email was calling, and some part of me wanted to pull away from the tedium of bedtime and reply. Replying would have felt fresh and new, while bedtime felt old and stale. I would like to say I snuggled my son and did not give your email one single thought, but that would not be true, and it would also be rude, even though it is a state of mind to which many of us aspire. Instead, I hovered(悬停) somewhere between presence in the bedtime moment and awareness of your email and many others. I spend a lot of time in that gap, sometimes drafting mental responses to emails, which I am later surprised and sad to find I have not actually sent.

It is possible that I will answer your email later, in a few hours, or in a few years, maybe when I am 57, and I will be so happy to have your email. We will trade words, and those words will again seem so real to me, a whole world in my laptop, where I live, sometimes, because there is so much that is attractive in there, where time moves fast and yet never moves at all. I will take my laptop outside and I will sit among the trees, listening for the voices of children who are no longer home, and I will answer your email.

It is also possible that I will not — that I, in fact, will never answer your email. If that is the case, if the people and the places and the things around me still press upon me with more urgency than your email and so many others, I hope that you will forgive me. I have already forgiven myself.

1.Why does the author mention chickens and the children’s math grades?

A. Because daily routines took up most of her time.

B. Because she was troubled by many unimportant things.

C. Because she was more concerned about her family.

D. Because she often put off answering email till bedtime.

2.What can be learnt from the author’s description of her daughter?

A. The author used to answer emails while waiting for her daughter.

B. The author would rather play with her daughter than answer emails.

C. The author and daughters liked to use their phone alone.

D. The author regretted the time spent on the phone.

3.What tone does the author use in answering emails after snuggling her son?

A. humor　　 B. embarrassment

C. apology　　 D. happiness

4.What do the last two paragraphs mainly tell us?

A. Learn to forgive yourself for not answering emails in time.

B. The world outside is so attractive that we should enjoy it now.

C. I will surely answer emails without children around.

D. Answering emails is a thing of little urgency.

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to reach them on the phone, we sent an email instead

A. Fail  B. Failed  C. To fail  D. Having failed

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________ to reach them on the phone, we sent an email instead

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_________ to reach them on the phone, we sent an email instead.

A．Fail              B．Failed            C．To fail            D．Having failed

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—Why are you looking so worried?

—I sent an email to my son in America last week, but no reply ________.

A. was received     B. had received     C. has received    D. has been received

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Someone recently asked me when I became more confident about my abilities as an entrepreneur. I thought it was a funny question, ____ I’ not very confident at all, and constantly filled with _____ about every decision I make.

It doesn’t exactly hold me back in my work; it’s just that I am very _______ of what I do, and I’m always _____ on the way I work, think and talk. I have also learned over the years that making a decision is often more important than making the _______ decision. Preferably your decisions are the right ones, but inaction or indecisiveness is more _____ than making the wrong decisions every now and then.

There is one thing I have learned over the years that I wish I had learned earlier in my career. And that is the ____ that I am not stupid.

It sounds logical, but I often sat in on meetings and heard people explain things and then ____ to myself, “ I don’t understand that. Maybe I’m stupid?” or I would hear about a startup and I wouldn’t ______ their business model and think I’m stupid. Or I would hear an entrepreneur speak and think, “ That all like ______ bullshit, but I must be stupid, because other people seem to love it.”

A couple of years ago, I came to the ______ that I was not stupid at all. When people in meetings say things I don’t’ understand I _______ up and tell them so. Usually, I hear a sigh of ______ in the room and find out nobody understood what was being talked about.

When I don’t understand a business model it usually means there is not one, or it ______. Turns out I’m not stupid and ______ I don’t understand it, most people won’t understand it at all. ______ doubting my own abilities I’ve learned to ______ my “bullshit radar” a bit more and not understanding something is a clear sign that something is _______.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is this: you are not stupid! If something does not make _____, if it sounds stupid, if you don’t understand it, something is wrong! Trust your gut( 本能的) ______.　 Feel free not to know and be honest when you don’t’ understand something!

1.A. if　　　　　　 　　　　　 B. unless　　 C. because　　　 D. when

2.A. disappointment　　　 B. doubt　　　　 C. terror　　　　 D. curiosity

3.A. conscious　　 　　 　 B. tired　　　　 C. ashamed　　 D. fond

4.A. insisting　　　　 　　 B. working　　 C. relying　　　 D. reflecting

5.A. right　　　　 　　　　 B. tough　　　　 C. firm　　　 　　 D. final

6.A. boring　　　　　 　　 B. costly　　　 C. disgusting D. significant

7.A. truth 　　　　　　 　　 B. concept　　 C. realization D. reputation

8.A. thought　　　　 　　　 B. referred　　 C. smiled　　　　 D. came

9.A. mind　　　 　　　　　 　 B. know　　　 C. love　　　 　　 D. understand

10.A. tastes　　　　　　 　　 B. sounds　　　 C. smells　　 D. looks

11.A. compromise　　　　 B. conclusion C. point　　　　 D. agreement

12.A. speak　　 　　　　　　 B. look　　　　 C. hang　　 　　 D. cheer

13.A. despair　　　　 　　 B. pleasure　　 C. relief　　　　 D. impatience

14.A. disappears　　　　　 B. ceases　　　 C. approaches D. sucks

15.A. since　　　　 　　　　 B. if　　　　　　 C. as　　 　　　 D. while

16.A. Instead of　 　　　　 B. Apart from C. As well as　 D. Regardless of

17.A. operate　　 　　　　 B. differentiate　 C. trust　　 D. inspect

18.A. in　　　　 　　　　　　 B. up　　　　 　 C. on　　　　 　　 D. off

19.A. progress　　　　　　 B. history　　 C. money　　 　 D. sense

20.A. feeling　　 　　　 　 B. level　　　 C. happiness　　 D. Comfort

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