I got tired of living the life that everybody told me I “should” be living, so one day I decided to start living life in my own ways. Frustrated（挫败）with my job, I came home, put on my shoes, and just started running. It felt so good to be free. That first day I ended up running 30 miles without stopping. Yes, I had rediscovered my old passion ( 酷爱的事物) — and it felt so good that I set a goal to support myself and my family from my running alone.
I trained hard every day. Since I wanted to be the best I could be, I knew I would have to set some clear goals for myself. A couple of my goals were: run a 135-mile ultra-marathon(超级马拉松) across Death Valley, win the Badwater Ultra-Marathon, and run a marathon to the South Pole.
I had no idea how I was going to achieve these goals, but they certainly encouraged me to work hard. Today, I am really grateful to say that I have achieved all of them. Shortly after completing these goals, I set another goal: to run fifty marathons, in fifty states, in fifty days. Nobody had done anything like this before. To be honest, I was not quite sure if I could. But there was only one way to find out…so I just started training and preparing to give it my best try.
I completed that goal one year ago, and it felt great! But for me, life is not all about achieving goals. Sure, it feels good to succeed, but the greatest reward for me was learning more about myself and what I was able to do.
Only by stepping out into the unknown and stretching(使倾注全力) ourselves can we really discover what our true potential(潜能) is。
1.Which played an important role in the author’s success?
A. Setting goals B. Learning from others.
C. Being honest D. Keeping on reading .
2.According to Paragraph 3, before achieving the goals the author felt _____________
A. very grateful B. not quite confident
C. quite afraid D. not very satisfied
3.What does the underlined part “that goal” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Win the Badwater Ultra-Marathon.
B. Run a marathon to the South Pole.
C. Run fifty marathons, in fifty states, in fifty days.
D. Run a 135-mile ultra-marathon across Death Valley.
4.The author probably agrees that____________.
A. life means achieving goals
B. success is the greatest reward
C. sports help develop our potential
D. everyone may have great potential.
Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now, a teenager with problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog (博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very .So, what makes blogging different from writing in diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of that she does not want to .
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog a diary will probably write nearly the same information. I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. I was at her age, I wrote about the same things, but in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was that my sister might read it!
The biggest with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something about her in my diary, she would never know. , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend read her blog and get angry.
There are also to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me.” would know about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would respond and tell her how much they her. Blogs help people stay in with their friends and to hear what the people around them are doing.
1.A. the same B. troublesome C. difficult D. daily
2.A. familiar B. special C. similar D. different
3.A. a personal B. an ordinary C. a common D. a traditional
4.A. attractive B. public C. convenient D. quick
5.A. thoughts B. puzzles C. mysteries D. secrets
6.A. tell B. share C. publish D. solve
7.A. instead of B. as well as C. in favour of D. in spite of
8.A. blog B. diary C. report D. web
9.A. Although B. Since C. When D. Because
10.A. only B. already C. still D. never
11.A. angry B. hopeless C. glad D. worried
12.A. problem B. doubt C. trouble D. mistake
13.A. hard B. wrong C. mean D. funny
14.A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Then
15.A. should B. will C. must D. might
16.A. reasons B. disadvantages C. shortcomings D. advantages
17.A. everyone B. no one C. anyone D. someone
18.A. happily B. especially C. quickly D. immediately
19.A. like B. miss C. need D. help
20.A. friendship B. touch C. debate D. mind
--- Do you think he will come to my birthday party?
--- _________.
--- That’s good. Everyone is expecting him.
A. You can rely on it B. I don’t know for sure
C. It depends D. Don’t worry
--- I think what he has done for the company deserves__________ at the meeting.
--- I can’t agree more.
A. being praised B. praised C. to praise D. praising
We do hope that one day the Chinese language will become a __________ language, that is, everyone in the world will communicate in it.
A. common B. universal C. popular D. sensitive
Before long the Greens moved to a bigger city ____ the children could attend a better high school.
A. even if B. so that C. now that D. as if
