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Step to Discovering Your Passion
By Julie Jordan Scott
Even before the first tip, you simply must get out a notebook, journal, piece of paper, napkin … SOMETHING to write on to save your discoveries! These tips will only help if you pursue them, so please either take a moment to find writing tools NOW or print this out and promise yourself to complete this exercise later. It may take you some thinking time to get it done . . . and now . . . here are your tips . . . . .
1. Find Your Joy Factor
Look at the whole of your life history. When did you experience the most sustained period of Joy? What were you doing then? Where were you? Who were you with? How did it feel?
2. What Are Your 3 Most Favorite things to do?
If you had a free day with NO commitments, where would you be found? What would you be doing with whom?
3. In what area do you excel? (NO MODESTY ALLOWED HERE!)
Truly, what are you complimented on a lot? This could be ANYTHING.
4. What do you most want to be remembered for?
If you were designing your epitaph(墓者铭), what would you want it to say? (NOT what your Mom wants, or your SPOUSE(配偶的一方) wants or your third cousin twice removed, but what do YOU want your headstone to say?)
5. If you had a magic wand(魔杖), what would you change about your life TODAY?
How would it look compared to how it looks now? which aspects of your life ARE changeable, both short term and long term?
6. How does your Joy factor overlap with your favorite things and the areas in which you excel? Do the areas in which you excel bring YOU joy, or are they really for someone else . . . . . do you see which are obvious matches, and which do not fit? Those that overlap, that bring YOU the most Joy, are most likely the things that would bring you into Passionate Living.
7. What is the first even teeny tiny step you can take to living out your Passion as you have defined in #6?
Take some time to really think this one through . . . . . . concentrate and focus, and then you will be able to start the the next step . . . BUILDING YOUR ROAD MAP.
1.The purpose of the first paragraph is ________.
A. to arouse the readers’ interest and show them what to do
B. to find the piece of paper that is useful for the tips C. to print the tips out and show them to others
D. to copy the tips and read them
2.The underlined word “commitment” has the closest meaning to ________.
A. time B. exercise C. work D. joy
3. The underlined word “compliment” means ________.
A. scold B. praise C. criticize D. question
4.Of the following, ________ would probably give the correct evaluation of you.
A. You Mom B. Your spouse C. Your children D. You yourself
5.________ are most likely to bring into passionate living.
A. Your favorite things B. The areas in which you excel
C. Your joy factor D. The things that overlap
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
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The element radium, ______ in the chemistry lab, gave off a blue light.
A. discovering B. to be discovered C. to discover D. discovered
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A Step-by-Step guide to Writing Great Papers
Time For Kids
Want to be a better writer? TFK’s “Write Ideas” gives your writing a rise by walking you through every step involved in writing a paper. Using sample papers, idea organizers and checklists, you can write better research papers, persuasive essays, news stories and much more.
Spelling, Grammar and More
English Zone
This is the perfect site for English homework; It has a section on almost every topic you will cover in English class, such as spelling, parts of speech and writing. It does not just give you summary of the topic; rather it makes sure you understand it completely.
Reading Rocks!
Reading Rockets
From this great resource, learn to love reading or to love it even more! Read articles about reading and education, and share them with your teachers and parents. You can even read books by famous authors like Jane Yolen and Patricia MacLachlan.
Definitions, Rhymes and Word Games
Merriam-Webster Word Central
If you want to review words you know and learn new ones, visit this site. Here you’ll visit a school called “Word Central” where you can click on different areas to learn things like definitions and rhymes for different words or play word games.
Help with Foreign Languages
Kidspace @ The Internet Public Library
This is a really cool site if you need help with foreign-language homework. It teaches you how to say hello in many different languages and has a lot of other useful information. It also tells how you can listen to real people saying the words in other languages.
1.Which of the following sites can help you remember the new words?
A. Time For Kids. B. English Zone
C. Merriam-Webster Word Central. D. Reading Rockets.
2.What can “Help with Foreign Languages” teach you?
A. How to read books by famous authors.
B. How to say hello in many different languages.
C. How to write better research papers.
D. How to use grammar in a right way.
3.The ad is mainly intended .
A. to increase the students’ learning skills
B. to offer some useful sites in language study
C. to attract the students to join some learning clubs
D. to help students understand language study better
高二英语短文中等难度题查看答案及解析
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A Step-by-Step guide to Writing Great Papers
Time For Kids
Want to be a better writer? TFK’s “Write Ideas” gives your writing a rise by walking you through every step involved in writing a paper. Using sample papers, idea organizers and checklists, you can write better research papers, persuasive essays, news stories and much more.
Spelling, Grammar and More
English Zone
This is the perfect site for English homework; It has a section on almost every topic you will cover in English class, such as spelling, parts of speech and writing. It does not just give you summary of the topic; rather it makes sure you understand it completely.
Reading Rocks!
Reading Rockets
From this great resource, learn to love reading or to love it even more! Read articles about reading and education, and share them with your teachers and parents. You can even read books by famous authors like Jane Yolen and Patricia MacLachlan.
Definitions, Rhymes and Word Games
Merriam-Webster Word Central
If you want to review words you know and learn new ones, visit this site. Here you’ll visit a school called “Word Central” where you can click on different areas to learn things like definitions and rhymes for different words or play word games.
Help with Foreign Languages
Kidspace @ The Internet Public Library
This is a really cool site if you need help with foreign-language homework. It teaches you how to say hello in many different languages and has a lot of other useful information. It also tells how you can listen to real people saying the words in other languages.
1.Which of the following sites can help you remember the new words?
A. Time For Kids. B. English Zone
C. Reading Rockets. D. Merriam-Webster Word Central.
2.What can “Help with Forreign Languages” teach you?
A. How to read books by famous authors.
B. How to say hello in many different languages.
C. How to write better research papers.
D. How to use grammar in a right way.
3.The ad is mainly intended .
A. to increase the students’ learning skills
B. to offer some useful sites in language study
C. to attract the students to join some learning clubs
D. to help students understand language study better
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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—What do you think of your step-mother?
—There are some things that are not easy to______, but on the whole she is a good mother.
A．come up with
B．catch up with
C．break up with
D．put up with
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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——What do you think of your step—mother?
——There are some things that are not easy to______，but on the whole she is a good mother．
A．come up with B．put up with C．break up with D．get along with
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
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——What do you think of your step—mother?
——There are some things that are not easy to______，but on the whole she is a good mother．
A．come up with B．put up with C．break up with D．get along with
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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——What do you think of your step—mother?
——There are some things that are not easy to______，but on the whole she is a good mother．
A．come up with
B．put up with
C．break up with
D．get along with
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
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A Teenage Inventor
The world could be one step closer to quick and inexpensive Ebola detection thanks to a teenager from Connecticut.
Olivia Hallisey, a junior at Greenwich High School, was awarded $50,000 in the Google Science Fair for her new method that detects Ebola, a virus that causes bleeding from different parts of the body and usually causes death. Olivia’s method is to ask patients to put their saliva (唾液) onto a testing card. The card changes color if the person is catching Ebloa. Present Ebloa tests take up to 12 hours and cost $1,000. Olivia’s method, however, can be done just in 30 minutes for about $25. Besides, the sample (样本) doesn’t have to be put in a refrigerator thanks to the silk material Olivia uses to produce the testing cards.
Olivia was inspired to deal with this global problem after watching the news that more than 10,000 people died from Ebola in West Africa. She was particularly worried about the fact that, while the acts of involvement can improve survival rates, present detection methods are costly, time-consuming and require complex tools. Olivia got help from her science research teacher. She drew out directions from past research, and figured out detection systems that have proven to work with other diseases, including Lyme disease and yellow fever.
“What affects one country affects everyone,” Olivia told CNBC. “We have to work together to find answers to the huge challenges which cause harm to the global health.” The Connecticut’s teen, who hopes to become a doctor one day, was named the Google Science Fair winner in the competition of 20 competitors from across the globe. The fair is open to young people between the ages of 13 and 18 in most countries.
Olivia hopes her success will inspire other girls interested in science and computers. “I would just encourage girls to try it in the beginning, and remind them that they don’t have to feel naturally drawn or feel like they have a special talent for maths or science,” she told CNBC, “but just really look at something they are interested in and then think how to improve something or make it more enjoyable or relate it to their interests.”
1.According to the passage, present Ebola detection methods ______.
A. must use a large amount of samples
B. may detect other deadly viruses as well
C. have proven to be ineffective in practice
D. require samples to be kept in refrigerators
2.What can we learn about Olivia’s method?
A. Time-consuming. B. Cheap.
C. Complex. D. Out-of-date.
3.What does the underlined word “drawn” in Paragraph 5 probably mean？
A. Attracted. B. Controlled.
C. Admitted. D. Exposed.
4.The Google Science Fair is intended for ______.
A. students B. doctors
C. inventors D. scientists
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Would you be ____ kind as to step this way, please?
A. as B. so C. very D. too
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