Question

Some Ways to Have an Amazing Day

Here are a few tips for making sure you can answer the pop quiz of life confidently:

Be kind.

1. How often do you stop to talk to the people you encounter every day? Do you know the names of the people at the bank, the grocery store, or restaurant? One great way to get more out of your day is to fill it with people you know. The best way to know more people is to be kind to everyone you meet. Take a moment to learn a little about them.

2.

I avoided saying “Stay Busy” because sometimes we can fill our day with meaningless activities and feel busy but then at the end of the day we look back and realize we accomplished nothing. A great way to stay productive is to look at the things you would like to accomplish today, this week, this month, etc. and then plan some time to work on each of them.

Look for ways to serve.

I truly believe that giving meaningful service to other people is the greatest key to our personal happiness. It may be just a smile and a “hello”. 3. It may be just a phone call to tell them “thank you for being a friend.” When we serve other people, we develop personal joy.

Find a purpose.

The happiest people have one or more big “life goals”. 4. When we have a big goal that we feel passionate about we become more excited to work on that goal every day.

5. When you give yourself the pop quiz at the end of the day, you will be ready to say you did everything you

could.

A. Keep learning new things

B. Make the most of every day

C. Stay productive all the time

D. Try to do more in your everyday life

E. It may be helping them with their work

F. It has been said that you can measure a person by how they treat the people who can do nothing for them

G. It may be to run a marathon, write a book, start a business, develop a product or learn a new hobby or profession.

Answer

1.F

2.C

3.E

4.G

5.B

【解析】本文讲述了如何拥有精彩一天的一些方法。

1.推理判断题。由这一段的小标题“Be kind.”可知，本段主要讲述的是要想拥有精彩的一天，就要待人友善，且由横线后的句子“How often do you stop to talk to the people you encounter every day?”等可推断出，主要讲的是人与人之间的关系，F项主要讲的是“据说你可以通过一个人怎样对待那些对他们无能为力的人来衡量一个人”与小标题相符，故选F。

2.细节判断题。横线处于小标题处，故与上一段的小标题“Be kind.”有相似之处，且由段意及句子“A great way to stay productive is to look at the things you would like to accomplish today, this week, this month, etc. and then plan some time to work on each of them.”可知，本段主要讲述的是一个保持生产力的好方法，所以“Stay productive all the time”是最适合的。故选C。

3.细节处理题。横线之前的句子是“It may be just a smile and a “hello”.”（它可能只是一个微笑和一个“你好”），横线之后的句子是“It may be just a phone call to tell them “thank you for being a friend.””（也许只是打个电话告诉他们“谢谢你做我的朋友”），所以横线应填与前后句子结构类似的句子，故选E。

4.细节理解题。本段小标题的主题是“找到一个目标”，且横线前又说“最幸福的人是有一个或多个大的人生目标的人”，所以横线处可能是列举了不一样的“人生目标”，从而引出下一句“当我们拥有了一个大目标时，我们才能充满激情，才会每天为实现这个目标而兴奋不已。”故选G。

5.主旨大意题。前面四个小段分别给出了一些关于拥有精彩一天的小方法，所以最后一段是对整篇文章的总结。由最后一句“When you give yourself the pop quiz at the end of the day, you will be ready to say you did everything you could.”知，当你在一天结束时给自己做突击测试时，你会准备说你做了你能做的一切，所以由分析可知横线处应填“Make the most of every day”（好好利用每一天），故选B。