Our interpersonal skills have a great effect on success in our daily lives. This appears not only in the workplace where we can make more money or enjoy our job more, but also shows itself in marriage, raising a family and the ability to reach goals in almost every area of life. Interpersonal skills come into play when our flight is cancelled and we need to make other arrangements. They come into play when a marriage is threatened by financial challenges or infidelity(不忠).
Our communication skills even matter when we are in traffic and we need to make a decision about how to respond to other drivers. Communicating with others becomes inseparable from having a good day, or a bad day not only in how we begin communication, but in how we react to the communications of others who are having a difficult time.
It can make a difference in saving a marriage or getting a divorce, celebrating a rise or getting fired, and even having your eggs cooked as the way you like at the local restaurant. Many wise men and women have stressed the importance of dealing with others in a skillful manner.
Getting feedback(反馈意见) from others can be of great value in improving our interpersonal communication skills. Often, however, others are not skilled at giving feedback. When we get negative results, they rarely include the details we need in order to improve our interpersonal skills.
Since life improves so much with greater communication skills, getting feedback and an opportunity to improve would be not only life-saving for pilots, but labor-saving for the rest of us. Contact Alice Aspen March for a free consultation today and see how you might improve your communication skills, or learn more about The Attention Factor.
1.Which of the following can greatly influence our success in our daily life according to the passage?
A. The education we receive. B. The skills of making a decision.
C. The nationality of our friends. D. Our interpersonal skills.
2.What does the underlined word “They” refer to in the last sentence of Paragraph 1?
A. Family members
B. Interpersonal skills.
C. Husband and wife
D. Challenges of lack of money.
3.Why does the author mention “traffic” and “other drivers” in the second paragraph?
A. Just to call our attention
B. To tell us the importance of communication skills.
C. To lead us to think of a sad scene
D. To help us not to forget traffic is very important.
4.Which of the following is true?
A. Getting feedback from others can be valueless in improving our interpersonal skills.
B. Even if we have good communication skills, we will surely not be able to improve our life.
C. If we pay enough money, we can get some advice from Alice Aspen March.
D. Many wise people think communicating with others needs skills.
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The Attention Factor
B. The Problems of Marriage
C. Interpersonal Skills
D. The Relationship Between Our Feelings and Traffic
Nowadays, the food we eat seems to have great effects on our health. Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more likely to cause certain different illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.
That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things on the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef and living animals, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cow. Sometimes similar drugs are given to animals not for medical purposes, but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.
1.What is the best possible title of the passage?
A. Drug and Food B. Food and Health
C. Cancer and Health D. Health and Drug
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Some of the additives in our food are added to the food itself and some are given to the living animals
B. Researchers have known about the potential dangers of food additives for about sixty-eight years.
C. Drugs are always given to animals for medical reasons
D. Food may cause forty percent of cancer in world.
3.How has science done something harmful to mankind?
A. Because of science, diseases caused by polluted food have been virtually eliminated.
B. It has caused a lack of information concerning the value of food.
C. The scientists have preserved the color of meats, but not of vegetables.
D. Because of the application of science, some potentially harmful substances have been added to food.
4.What are nitrates used for?
A. They preserve the color of meats.
B. They preserve flavor in packaged foods.
C. They are the objects of research
D. They cause the animals to become fatter.
5.The word “carcinogenic” most nearly means “_____”.
A. trouble-making B. color-retaining
C. cancer-causing D. money-making
Mainland couples who give birth to a second child in Hong Kong will be fined forbreaking the family planning policy a senior official has warned． As more women flock to Hong Kong to give birth to their second child，Zhang Feng，family planning department director of Guangdong Province，stressed that this violated Chinaspolicies． “And those who are government employees will even be dismissed from their posts．”he said．
''It doesn't matter if they give birth to their second child on the mainland or in other countries and regions, they have violated the country's policies and the province's regulations''.
He said that some families had been punished in the past few months after having a second child in Hong Kong, but gave no details.
Zhang made his remarks when a Hong Kong newspaper carried a controversial notice claiming residents' medical services had been affected by the growing number of mainland women who arrive in the city to give birth and gain right of abode (居住) there.
According to statistics revealed by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, about 88,000 babies were born in Hong Kong in 2010, but more than 41,000 or 47 percent, were to mainland couples, including a large number from Guangdong.
Hong Kong has limited the number of mainland women permitted to give birth in the city at 34,000 this year.
The issue also has caused calls for an amendment to Hong Kong's Basic Law so that babies born to mainland women are no longer granted permanent right of abode.
''I support Hong Kong government's decision to reduce or limit the number for mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong.'' Zhang said.
China introduced its family planning policy in 1979 to limit births in the world's most populous nation, although the rules have been relaxed in recent years.
1.Which of the following is true?
A. Zhang Feng is family planning department director of Guangdong Province.
B. Many government employees have been dismissed from their posts.
C. Those who give birth to a second child in Hong Kong will be fined.
D. It doesn’t matter if they give birth to their second child on the mainland.
2. What does the word ''violated'' mean in the second paragraph?
A. was obeyed B. went against C. was for D. was dismissed
3.Zhang Feng said that______.
A. few families had been punished after having a second child in China
B. about 88,000 babies were born in Hong Kong in 2010
C. he agreed to reduce or limit the number for mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong
D. the residents' medical services in Hong Kong had been affected
4.From the passage we can infer______.
A. in 2010 most of the babies born in Hong Kong belonged to mainland couples
B. babies born to mainland women in Hong Kong can't get permanent right of abode now
C. the number of mainland women permitted to give birth in Hong Kong has been reduced
D. the family planning policy in China is as strict as before
5.Which is NOT the reason why some people want to give birth to a second child in Hong Kong?
A. They want to gain right of abode there for their babies.
B. They want to escape being punished for breaking the family planning policy.
C. They want their babies to enjoy the good medical services in Hong Kong.
D. They want to cause calls for an amendment to Hong Kong's Basic Law.
Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father 36 me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is 37 for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no 38 than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me, 39 my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “ You are 40 . This is not the worst boy at all, 41 the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a (n) 42 between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my 43 as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She 44 my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the country seat, where my father’s career could be more 45 and my brothers and I could be better 46 .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand 47 and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I 48 it, and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her 49 and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of 50 that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the 51 beneficiary(受益者). My father became the 52 man in town. My brothers and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power 53 has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is 54 strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible force which poverty and temporary defeat can never 55 .
You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.
1.A. rushed B. introduced C. sent D. carried
2.A. mistaken B. favored C. distinguished D. rewarded
3.A. later B. sooner C. longer D. earlier
4.A. dragged B. raised C. shook D. bent
5.A. perfect B. right C. impolite D. wrong
6.A. so B. but C. or D. and
7.A. agreement B. gap C. friendship D. relationship
8.A. opinion B. image C. mind D. expectation
9.A. persuaded B. begged C. ordered D. invited
10.A. meaningful B. successful C. helpful D. useful
11.A. treated B. entertained C. respected D. educated
12.A. camera B. radio C. typewriter D. bicycle
13.A. considered B. appreciated C. ignored D. suspected
14.A. criticism B. belief C. request D. description
15.A. writing B. teaching C. studying D. reading
16.A. only B. next C. same D. real
17.A. cleverest B. strongest C. healthiest D. wealthiest
18.A. fortune B. sympathy C. enthusiasm D. confidence
19.A. deliberately B. constantly C. traditionally D. happily
20.A. win B. reach C. match D. doubt
---Come to my family for dinner, please.
---- .
A. I’m very busy B. See you in the evening
C. Yes, I would D. Oh, thank you for your invitation
in a story book, the girl didn’t notice the stranger.
A. Burying B. Buried C. To bury D. Having buried
