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Always Challenge Yourself

I started out my career as an editor for a travel magazine. I didn’t really mind the work, but I wanted something more ________. My sister sent me some details for a content management ________ with a digital reading startup（新创办的小公司）. The job was a seemingly perfect mix of my skills and interests, ________ I jumped at it.

However, soon after I ________ the company, its model changed to focus on ________, and everything about my position changed. I was asked to ________ content to teachers and train people. Although I had no ________ in sales, training and education, I knew I wanted to make a serious ________ on the company. I told myself that everything feels overwhelming（难以应对的）at first and I should ________ have a go.

I was fortunate to be surrounded by very ________ people. My best friend reminded me I’d made huge leaps of ________ in the past. It also helped that my boss seemed to have more faith in my ________ than I did. She never asked if I thought I could do it she ________ asked if I was interested in trying.

I spent hours ________ my company’s products, asked lots of questions and spoke to so many teachers. I looked for opportunities to put in extra ________. The more I did, the better I felt.

It was rewarding to see the company ________ and know I had something to do with its success. Sure, I ________ more than I could handle and occasionally made mistakes. But it’s important to take risks and accept new ________, even when you’re not ________ whether you’ll do well. There is nothing worse than failing because you refuse to even ________. I’m so glad I tried, and know I’ll do it again.

1.A. relaxing　　 B. challenging　　 C. entertaining　　 D. astonishing

2.A. position　　 B. business　　 C. industry　　 D. association

3.A. for　　 B. yet　　 C. so　　 D. while

4.A. founded　　 B. ran　　 C. quit　　 D. joined

5.A. education　　 B. technology　　 C. press　　 D. management

6.A. explain　　 B. create　　 C. purchase　　 D. sell

7.A. interest　　 B. experience　　 C. voice　　 D. choice

8.A. difference　　 B. start　　 C. impact　　 D. bet

9.A. at best　　 B. at last　　 C. at most　　 D. at least

10.A. helpful　　 B. honest　　 C. enthusiastic　　 D. active

11.A. duty　　 B. faith　　 C. goal　　 D. profit

12.A. knowledge　　 B. judgment　　 C. personalities　　 D. abilities

13.A. hardly　　 B. only　　 C. seldom　　 D. never

14.A. promoting　　 B. appreciate　　 C. researching　　 D. advertising

15.A. fund　　 B. demand　　 C. require　　 D. effort

16.A. grow　　 B. spread　　 C. work　　 D. decline

17.A. took off　　 B. took in　　 C. took down　　 D. took on

18.A. orders　　 B. wishes　　 C. opportunities　　 D. suggestions

19.A. sure　　 B. doubtful　　 C. curious　　 D. excited

20.A. imagine　　 B. try　　 C. think　　 D. question

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I graduated in 2004 and moved to Israel, making a career as an English teacher. I am always looking for interesting projects to get my students more inspired to learn the language. Through Facebook, I saw that Kirstin, a friend of mine, was teaching at a school in an East African country. I contacted Kirstin and asked her if she would like to do a letter exchange between my students in Jerusalem and her students in Tanzania.

It took a while to wait for Kirstin’s answer because Internet access is not easy to come in the countryside of Tanzania, but when she finally was able to connect, she responded with a huge yes.

Two months later, a package arrived. The students gathered around my table in class, and we went over the letters together. “My name is Nelson,” one letter read. “I am 13 years old. I live in Njombe, Tanzania. I like to play ball, to ride a bike, and to read books.” Below the handwritten letter was a colorful drawing of a boy wearing traditional Tanzanian clothing.

My students were excited. “This is so cool! What a great project,” shouted one of my students, Hadas. This was followed by a group of students asking if we could travel to Tanzania to meet their new friends. One student, Nir, suggested maybe they could simply become friends on Facebook instead. “The kids don’t have Facebook accounts. And there’s very limited Internet access in their area of Tanzania, I explained to them.

It was hard for my students to imagine that there were places in the world where teens did not have online social networking systems.

The pen pal project gave my students the chance to not only practice their English, but to also learn about other areas in our world.

1.Why did the author get in touch with Kirstin?

A.To get to know East Africa.

B.To learn English online from her.

C.To let two classes write to each other.

D.To ask her for advice about teaching English.

2.How did Kirstin react to the author’s request?

A.She turned it down. B.She accepted it willingly.

C.She replied immediately. D.She never showed up online.

3.What was the attitude of the author’s students toward the project?

A.Disappointed. B.Uncaring.

C.Favorable. D.Doubtful.

4.What is the best title for this text?

A.Two Heads Are Better Than One

B.A friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed

C.How Writing Letters Improves People’s Relationships

D.How A Class Pen Pal Project Connected Two Continents

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I was born with a heart disease. As I grew up, parts of my heart started to ____ and I was often out of breath. So when I was eight, the doctors opened my chest to ____ it. When they saw the state of my heart, they told my parents, “We don’t expect him to ____ the night.” I was in and out of a coma (昏迷) for three months. Every day the fact that I wasn’t ____ was a good thing.

Finally, the doctors ____ I’d be better off at home — saying that I wasn’t going to live long. But I ____ and had something close to a ____ childhood. As a teenager, I began to ____ heart failure again. But I was ____ to go to college, become a manager and get married to Jo.

I started my own ____ so I could work flexible (灵活的) hours, ____ Jo and I had two children: Josh and Liam. I ____ to keep a good standard of life for everyone, even when I was waking up feeling sick every morning. By January last year, my heart failure was so ____ I often couldn’t walk more than a few yards.

I was worried about not being around for my ____. I had to explain to Josh that the ____ telling me an organ (器官) had been found could come any time and I’d be rushed to hospital, perhaps ____ I could say goodbye. A few days later, the phone rang and Josh said, “Is that the doctor with your new ____?” However it was ____ a salesman.

May 4 was the day a transplant (移植) match was found. I was out of hospital within five weeks and, within a few ____, feeling much better. By October, I was taking part in a 30-mile bike ride.

These days I spend a lot of time talking to kids with heart ____. I want to support others who’ve had a hard time.

1.A. feel　　 B. fail　　 C. improve　　 D. work

2.A. repair　　 B. discover　　 C. hear　　 D. prevent

3.A. stay　　 B. waste　　 C. see　　 D. last

4.A. dead　　 B. sad　　 C. sick　　 D. worried

5.A. expected　　 B. decided　　 C. required　　 D. learned

6.A. went out　　 B. gave up　　 C. looked back　　 D. carried on

7.A. lucky　　 B. normal　　 C. busy　　 D. poor

8.A. stop　　 B. accept　　 C. experience　　 D. examine

9.A. ready　　 B. likely　　 C. able　　 D. sure

10.A. ride　　 B. family　　 C. holiday　　 D. company

11.A. and　　 B. but　　 C. since　　 D. unless

12.A. waited　　 B. tried　　 C. agreed　　 D. offered

13.A. easy　　 B. quiet　　 C. bad　　 D. strange

14.A. children　　 B. parents　　 C. wife　　 D. doctors

15.A. person　　 B. letter　　 C. call　　 D. note

16.A. when　　 B. before　　 C. although　　 D. if

17.A. heart　　 B. bike　　 C. drug　　 D. address

18.A. then　　 B. yet　　 C. just　　 D. soon

19.A. days　　 B. weeks　　 C. months　　 D. years

20.A. conditions　　 B. problems　　 C. operations　　 D. transplants

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What were you like as a teenager? I was a nightmare. I was rude to my parents, always stayed out late, never did my homework, hung out with the wrong people and made lots of bad decisions. Obviously, this is the age when teenagers are out of control and behave badly. Maybe, if you’re a teenager now, you think this is unfair judgment or it’s not your fault. Well, you might be right!

Experts have found that it’s a teenager’s brain that is to blame. Between the ages of about 13 to 19 — a period known as adolescence, the brain is still developing in areas that control behavior. This has an influence on learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, and decision-making. For parents, these results often make them notice lots of behaviors that they may have earlier blamed on hormones (荷尔蒙) or just moodiness.

So our brains are still developing much later than it was thought before. Is this the perfect excuse for teenagers to walk around aimlessly and not get their homework done on time? Of course not! According to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, who made the new discovery, it’s to do with our prefrontal cortex that’s the part of our brain right at the front, just behind the forehead. She says “It takes part in a whole area of very high-level cognitive (认知的) tasks such as decision making and planning — we know that this area is going through very large amounts of development during the adolescent years”. This is the part of the brain which plays an important role in planning, and, for a teenager, this hasn’t developed yet. So getting organised to do their homework, for example, can come as a bit of challenge.

I wish I’d known about this because instead of telling my teacher I’d left my homework on the bus or that the dog had eaten it. Now I could say, “Sorry sir, my brain isn’t developed enough for the cognitive task of planning my homework.”

1.Which of the following is common in teenagers?

A.Doing some bad deeds.

B.Being blamed for their age.

C.Stopping their brain development.

D.Making excuses for their bad behaviors.

2.What do we know about the new discovery?

A.The brain develops in the first few years of life.

B.The forehead stops developing during adolescence.

C.Hormones take responsibility for teenagers’ behaviors.

D.The prefrontal cortex affects us performing cognitive tasks.

3.What is the best title for the text?

A.Behind the adolescence

B.Inside a Teenager’s Brain

C.For the Naughty Teenagers

D.About the brain Development

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In order to get started in this career, I am willing to accept any position____I can show my abilities.

A.where B.when C.which D.that

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My writing career began ten years ago with my articles published locally and nationally. As a beginning writer, I was happy to be on my way, writing and learning as much as I could . With two little kids underfoot, as well as working full-time, it was really difficult to make time for writing, but I managed.

Readers told me they laughed, cried or were inspired by my articles. But they didn't know what was really going on behind the typewriter. I was not a happy mommy, and found it difficult to enjoy the everyday little things in life. In short, I was not a happy person.

I realized I had to make some changes. I started walking every morning. It cleared my head, allowed me time to think, gave me fresh air, and made me feel invigorated (精神焕发） and healthy. I was eating wisely, and the weight started to go. I started a new job, joined a monthly writing chapter，and was determined to keep up my walking. Finding the balance was sometimes difficult. But I was determined to fit in writing time because it made me happy. Sure I loved to watch the news and have my tea, but that wasn't what made me truly happy.

My own happiness has shown through my family, my job performance and my attitude towards challenging situations. I again have readers telling me the effect my writing has had on them, with some able to get on with their own writing because of my articles.

It was up to me to make it happen—my own happiness. One step at a time-one word at a time. And I did it.

1.What was a big challenge to the author according to the first paragraph?

A. Writing good articles.　　 B. Doing well at work.

C. Finding time to write.　　 D. Taking good care of children.

2.Why did the author start walking every morning?

A. To be physically healthy.

B. To enjoy fresh early morning air.

C. To have more energy for writing.

D. To get back to happiness.

3.What can we know about the author from the text?

A. Her articles had a great effect on readers.

B. She didn't enjoy making changes in her life.

C. She wasn't interested in watching TV news.

D. She couldn't find the balance between work and life.

4.What do you think is the main idea of the story?

A. Practice makes perfect.　　 B. Well begun is half done.

C. Time and tide wait for no man.　　 D. Happiness lies in your own hand.

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I grew depressed (沮丧的), even as my husband Charlie’s career skyrocketed. He was a NASA astronaut. I was excited for him when he began training to go to the moon, and I involved (潜心于) myself with the flight as much as possible, but I was really looking forward to it being over. Inside I was hoping that once he got this goal behind him, he would put me first.

But he didn’t. He still had that workaholic(工作狂) drive. He was still following a list of goals which I was still down near the bottom of. I considered breaking up but I wondered if any man could love me the way I wanted to be loved. Was there even such a thing as the perfect marriage? I didn’t wish it anymore. However, in his eyes, our marriage certainly hadn’t delivered any satisfaction, so within several years we were heading full-speed toward breaking up.

I began to look for other things to satisfy me. I tried a career. I tried church work. I helped the needy. Nothing worked. I even tried drugs, but they didn’t work either. I thought, maybe there was no purpose in life. Didn’t that seem strange? I was married to a famous man, had a nice home and healthy children, plenty of money, yet I had no hope.

I also discovered God, and I believed He wanted to change me. I found He wanted me to forgive Charlie, so I tried that, although I felt it was impossible. But over a two-month period, God freed me of my anger and helped me love Charlie unconditionally.

58. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means ______.

A. Charlie’s goals were different from mine

B. Charlie was after many goals in his life, but I was still the last one in his heart

C. Charlie was always very busy with his work and paid no attention to me

D. Charlie achieved many goals with my help

59. According to the passage, what can we infer from the marriage between Charlie and his wife?

A. It was a mistake to marry Charlie.

B. There is no such a thing as a perfect marriage.

C. It was God that helped them love each other again.

D. Their marriage was saved because of the wife’s forgiveness.

60. What’s the author’s attitude towards her marriage in the end?

A. Positive.    B. Puzzling.    C. Negative.    D. Indifferent.

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（2015·浙江）Creating an atmosphere ________employees feel part of a team is a big challenge.

A. as　　 B. whose

C. in which　　 D. at which

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I've always wanted to start my own business. I've always wanted to start working for myself. Yet I didn't make that decision. I finally got started instead of thinking about it or putting it off. And I made it. Maybe you've not started on something important to yourself. Maybe you can relate to what I'm saying, and you feel you've been slacking(松懈的) off for too long. You had better get started now. 1.

1. It's better than thinking about it.

2. But thinking can also be dangerous when you do too much of it. You can think as much as you like, but thinking isn't going to change the situation. In fact, thinking isn't going to change anything. 3. You won't go anywhere, as If you're a human statue. So you had better get started now.

2. It's better than never taking action.

Do you want to be the man or the woman who never does anything? Do you want to be the man or the woman who never gets started? 4. You won't regret it.

3. 5..

How long are you going to dream about getting started? How long are you going to dream about how wonderful it'll be when you do take action? And how long are you going to dream about how much of a difference it'll make to your life? There's only so much dreaming you can do before you have to turn that dream into action. A dream without action is a fantasy, destined(注定) to never come true.

A. It's better than dreaming about doing it.

B. Here's why getting started is the best way to get started.

C. Thinking will just keep you in the same position you're already in.

D. Take action and get out of your own head.

E. You can adjust your actions along the way.

F. Thinking about something before you do it is a great quality to have.

G. It's better to make a mistake than do nothing at all.

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Children start out as natural scientists, eager to look into the world around them. Helping them enjoy science can be easy; there’s no need for a lot of scientific terms or expensive lab equipment. You only have to share your children’s curiosity(好奇). Firstly, listen to their questions. I once visited a classroom of seven-year-olds to talk about science as a job. The children asked me “textbook questions” about schooling, salary(薪水) and whether I liked my job. When I finished answering, we sat facing one another in silence. Finally I said, “Now that we’re finished with your lists, do you have questions of your own about science?”

After a long pause, a boy raised his hand, “Have you ever seen a grasshopper(蚱蜢) eat? When I try eating leaves like that, I get a stomachache. Why?”

This began a set of questions that lasted nearly two hours.

Secondly, give them time to think. Studies over the past 30 years have shown that, after asking a question, adults typically wait only one second or less for an answer, no time for a child to think. When adults increase their “wait time” to three seconds or more, children give more logical(符合逻辑的), complete and creative answers.

Thirdly, watch your language. Once you have a child involved in a science discussion, don’t jump in with “That’s right” or “Very good”. These words work well when it comes to encouraging good behavior(行为). But in talking about science, quick praise can signal that discussion is over. Instead, keep things going by saying “That’s interesting” or “I’d never thought of it that way before”, or coming up with more questions or ideas.

Never push a child to “Think”. It doesn’t make sense, children are always thinking, without your telling them to. What’s more, this can turn a conversation into a performance. The child will try to find the answer you want, in as few words as possible, so that he will be a smaller target(目标) for your disagreement.

Lastly, show; don’t tell. Real-life impressions of nature are far more impressive than any lesson children can learn from a book or a television program. Let children look at their fingertips through a magnifying glass(放大镜), and they’ll understand why you want them to wash before dinner. Rather than saying that water vaporates(蒸发), set a pot of water to boil and let them watch the water level drop.

1.According to the passage, children are natural scientists, and to raise their interest, the most important thing for adults to do is _______.

A. let them see the world around

B. share the children’s curiosity

C. explain difficult phrases about science

D. supply the children with lab equipment?

2.In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the word “lists” could best be replaced by ______.

A. any questions

B. any problems

C. questions from textbooks

D. any number of questions

3.According to the passage, children can answer questions in a more logical, complete and creative way if adults ________.

A. ask them to answer quickly

B. wait for one or two seconds after a question

C. tell them to answer the next day

D. wait at least for three seconds after a question

4.In which of the following paragraph(s) does the author tell us what to say to encourage children in a science discussion?

A. The second and third.

B. The fourth and fifth.

C. The fifth and sixth.

D. The seventh.

5.The author mentions all of the following techniques for adults to share with their children’s curiosity except that adults should ________.

A. tell their children stories instead of reciting facts

B. offer their children chances to see things for themselves

C. be patient enough when their children answer questions

D. encourage their children to ask questions of their own

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