Many people prefer to read the novel rather than watch the movie based on it because the movie _____ always fails to live up to the novel.
A. accent B. pattern
C. approach D. version
As we all know, houses can be sold at a high price which are _____ for schools, supermarkets, bus stations and hospitals.
A. attractive B. convenient
C. practical D. unique
—Shall I pay by cash or Wechat?
—_____. Either is OK.
A. Go ahead B. It’s up to you
C. That all depends D. Help yourself
青少年研究专家Richard在自己的英文网站上开辟专栏，邀请大家分享自己身边的小故事。请你根据故事梗概，用英文发帖，写一个小故事并给故事设计一个出人意料的结局。
故事梗概：
Sam在去购物的路上遇到一个需要帮助的盲人，他热心地将盲人扶过马路。他购物回来的时候又遇到了那个盲人，但是他惊讶地发现……
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Many of us keep asking the question. What is personal development? It simply means that you do a daily activity to improve your day-to-day performance. Self-development or personal growth also covers a broad set of areas. It is also about improving yourself mentally and physically and all the areas of personal development are therefore to improve your mind, heart, body and spirit. There are a few steps that lead to success through personal development.
Hoping for success through personal development requires you to set a goal. Setting a goal is an organized personal planning. This is a reliable method for identifying (确认) the areas you need to succeed in — be it your professional (专业的) career or personal life. To start setting a goal, the first step you need to take is to decide which direction you want to take your life in. From the very first step, your goal will keep you focused on the direction you have chosen and will act as a reference (参考) for the times when you feel that you have deviated (脱离) from your determined path.
Habits play a key role in one’s life and help one succeed in the career. There is a simple habit plan that you can follow in your everyday life to make positive progress. For example, the healthy habit of going to the gym would keep you energetic throughout the day. There are also many personal development habits that you can develop for a successful career. There is the habit of never leaving a question unanswered, and the habit of going through daily tasks and reviewing the progress of your goal would be of great benefit. Good habits can be inculcated (反复灌输) only in the formative years of one’s life and one mustn’t hesitate then.
A true fact is that success through personal development of habits requires discipline (自律). Well, that is the secret of developing really good habits with a few clear values and not having to work at keeping them. Most habits need great efforts at their formative stage. It may take some time but when it’s done, you will feel the real value of the habit as it will benefit you. It will help you enjoy most of your daily tasks. There are also some bad habits which play an important part in one’s life. By means of discipline, they can remind us of the important approaches that need to be changed as soon as possible.
Success through personal development | |
General introduction to personal development | ●In a narrow sense, it means 1. your daily performance. ●In a broad sense, it covers many areas, including 2. and physical improvement. |
3. of goal setting for success | ●It is a method for you to decide the areas and direction you need to succeed in. ●It will keep you moving towards the 4. you have chosen and prevent you from deviating from your determined path. |
The relationship between habits and success | ●Good habits are 5. for one’s life and success in career. ●You can make positive progress by 6. a simple habit plan, such as going to the gym. ●You can develop personal development habits for a successful career, such as 7. daily tasks and the progress of your goal. |
8. of discipline for development of habits | ●Most good habits are formed by means of great 9., which need discipline, but you can get much benefit from them. ●Discipline helps us to change important approaches 10. after we have noticed the bad habits. |
My three-year-old son, Dayton, lay on the couch, held the family iPad and clicked on the Angry Birds app. It was a beautiful, sunny Wednesday morning and all he wanted to do was play a video game. I felt guilty. Why hadn’t I planned some activity for us to do together? I’d been wanting for months to spend more time with Dayton, take him to a story hour at the library or to the Native American Museum. But whenever I thought of it I was busy doing something else.
It was so much easier with Sydney. She was always coming to me with a book she wanted me to read to her. She loved playing dress up, having tea parties and social activities I liked too. I’d left my teaching job when she was born to devote my full time to being a mother. But I worried I was shortchanging (忽视) Dayton. What if I made today all about him?
“Let’s do something fun together, just you and me, Dayton. What would you like to do?” I asked. He didn’t hesitate, “Crystal Bridges.”
“Sounds good,” I said, trying to hide my surprise. Crystal Bridges, an art museum in nearby Bentonville, is home to world famous paintings and sculptures (雕塑) by American artists. We’d been there as a family a few times, but an art museum was not exactly the first thing I think of when I was looking for someplace fun to take a three-year-old boy to. Was this really what he wanted? Still, this was Dayton’s day. I told myself to just go with the flow, but even as we were in the car I couldn’t help but wonder what I was getting myself into.
We finally got to the museum. Dayton glanced toward the entrance. Suddenly he ran to a sculpture of the word LOVE. With his hand, Dayton followed the curves (弧形) of the letters. He moved slowly through the space between the V and the E, then climbed to the top of the L and sat there, a big smile across his face, as if he’d just gotten to the top of a jungle gym (儿童游戏用的攀登架).
Then he was off again, tearing across bridges and up some stone steps. He found a yellow butterfly and dashed after it, the two of them doing a kind of dance together. “I see you found something yellow,” I said. “That’s your favourite colour, isn’t it?” Dayton nodded excitedly, as if this was the most amazing thing there was to know about him. I probably never would have noticed it.
I was still considering this when Dayton had ran to a distant spring. “Is the water cold?” he asked.
“Yes,” I said. “It comes from under the ground.”
“Must be the coldest water in the world!” he said. Usually, I felt compelled (强迫) to tell him that a rock or a tree wasn’t the biggest in the world. But that day I let it go.
He ran almost the whole way and led me inside the museum to a big room designed for children. Dayton got a box of tangrams (七巧板) and in minutes there before him appeared a ... What was it?
“It’s a car,” he said. To me they were just pieces of plastic, but Dayton’s mind was so different from mine. For him everything was so fresh and exciting that I had to run so as not to miss a single thing. I could understand my son’s amazement, now that I was finally seeing the wonder of who he was made to be.
1.Seeing her son playing a video game on the couch, the author _____ .
A. got very angry
B. felt sorry for it
C. wondered what he wanted to do
D. planned to take him to the library
2.What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. The author’s daughter loved reading very much.
B. The author was a fulltime mother when Sydney was born.
C. The author loved her daughter more than her son.
D. The author wanted to spend a day with her two kids.
3.The author was surprised when her son wanted to go to the art museum because _____ .
A. she thought that she had always shortchanged her son
B. her son had never gone to the art museum before
C. there were many famous paintings and sculptures in the art museum
D. she didn’t think a three-year-old child would consider an art museum as a fun place
4.What did Dayton do during his visit to the museum?
A. He bought a box of tangrams.
B. He ran after two yellow butterflies.
C. He explored the sculpture of the word LOVE.
D. He had a taste of the water from Crystal Bridges’ spring.
5.What’s the author’s understanding about her son’s amazement?
A. He had a great interest in art.
B. He had a different mind from his sister.
C. He needed more attention from the family.
D. He saw the world as being alive with colours and sounds.
6.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. A day at the museum
B. A world-famous museum
C. What children are thinking about
D. How to keep children away from video games
