Four Goals for Perfect Life
Healthy and Fit
The first goal common to all of us is health and energy.
Excellent Relationships
Do What You Love
The third common goal is to do work that we enjoy, to do it well, and to be well paid for it.
The fourth goal we all have in common is to achieve financial independence.
A.You don’t want to get the job. |
B.Achieve Financial Independence |
C.Money is the most important. |
D.You want to reach the point in life where you have enough money so that you never have to worry about money again. |
E.You want to be able to get and keep the job you want, to get paid more and promoted faster. |
F.The second goal that we all have in common is to enjoy excellent relationships — intimate, personal or social — with the people we like and respect, and who like, love and respect us in turn. |
G.We all want to be healthy and fit, to have high levels of energy and to live free of pain and illness. |
One day the king went hunting (狩猎) and had a small accident. His foot was injured. Fortunately, he was not badly injured but as always he was forced to ask his advisor what he thought about the accident, to which the advisor replied, “Everything happens for the good.”
This time the king was really angry and put his advisor in prison (监狱). The king then asked his advisor, “Now, what do you think?” The advisor again answered, “Everything happens for the good.”
About a week later the king went on another hunting trip. As it turned out the king was caught by some cannibals (食人者) and taken to their camp where he would be prepared to be their evening meal. Before putting him into the cooking pot, he was examined and the cannibals realized that the king’s foot was injured. They decided to throw him back into the forests. It is the tradition for the cannibals not to eat anything that was in any way injured.
It is true that everything in our lives happens for a purpose, and most often for our own good. If you think about it, all our past experiences actually happened to bring us to where we are today and make us a better person. So whatever challenges that we may face today, consider it happening to bring us to the next level.
【小题1】The second paragraph tells us that______ .
A.the advisor was worried about the king |
B.the king was always careless about everything |
C.the advisor didn’t have much useful advice |
D.the king always asked for advice from the advisor |
A.angry | B.nervous | C.calm | D.upset |
A.everything happens for their own reasons |
B.our life experiences are our best teacher |
C.it is good for us to think about experiences |
D.challenges will make you do anything |
A.wants us to think positively |
B.asks us not to hunt any more |
C.wishes us to follow others’ advice |
D.tells us the danger of hunting |
To learn to think is to learn to question. Those who don't question never truly think for themselves. These are simple rules that have governed the advancement of science and human thought since the beginning of time. Advancements are made when thinkers question theories(理论) and introduce new ones. Unfortunately, it is often the great and respected thinkers who end up slowing the progress of human thought. Aristotle was a brilliant philosopher whose theories explained much of the natural world, often incorrectly. He was so respected by the scientific community that even 1,200 years after his death, scientists were still trying to build upon his mistakes rather than correct them!
Brilliant minds can intimidate upandcoming thinkers who are not confident of their abilities. They often believe they are not as good as the minds of giants such as Aristotle, leading many to accept current ideas instead of questioning them.
I, like many thinkers of the past, once believed in my mental weakness. I was certain that my parents, my teachers—adults in general—were always right. They were like a textbook to me; I didn't question what was written on those pages. I respected them, and accepted whatever they told me. But that attitude soon changed. My mind's independence was first developed in the classroom.
A stern, 65yearold elementaryschool science teacher once told me that light is a type of wave. I confidently went through years of school believing that light is a wave. One day,however, I heard the German exchange student mention that light could be made up of particles(粒子). As the others laughed at his statement, I started to question my beliefs.
Maybe the teachers and textbooks hadn't given me the whole story. I went to the library, did some research and learned of the lightasawave versus lightasaparticle debate. I read about Einstein's discovery of the dual nature of light and learned the facts of a paradox(悖论) that puzzles the world's greatest thinkers to this day. Light behaves as both a particle and a wave, it is both at once. I realized I had gone through life accepting only half of the story as the whole truth.
Each new year brought more new facts, and I formulated even more questions. I found myself in the library after school, trying to find my own answers to gain a more complete understanding of what I thought I already knew. I discovered that my parents and teachers are good tools in my quest for knowledge, but they are never the final word. Even textbooks can be challenged. I learned to question my sources, I learned to be a thinker. I once believed that everything I learned at home and at school was certain, but I have now discovered to reexamine when necessary.
Questions are said to be the path to knowledge and truth, and I plan to continue questioning. How many things do we know for sure today that we will question in the future? At this moment, I know that our sun will burn for another five billion years, and I know nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole. This knowledge, however, may change in the next 20 years—maybe even in the next two. The one thing we can control now is our openness to discovery. Questions are the tools of open minds, and open minds are the key to intellectual advancement.
【小题1】In the first paragraph, Aristotle is taken as an example to show that ______.A.he is the greatest and respected philosopher of all time |
B.huge influence of great thinkers may stop human thought from developing |
C.advancements are made when thinkers question theories |
D.great thinkers often make mistakes and then correct them |
A.Frighten. | B.Encourage. | C.Strengthen. | D.Persuade. |
A.what he learned from textbooks before turned out to be wrong |
B.he was inspired by the different ideas from an exchange student |
C.he was laughed at by other students for his unacceptable statement |
D.he was not satisfied with his life and desperate to achieve success |
A.looks down upon great thinkers all the time |
B.never doubts what he has learned in the textbook |
C.always throws himself into the laboratory |
D.is determined to be a thinker and questioner |
A.the author is not quite sure about his future |
B.we human beings don't dare to predict future |
C.the theory of black holes will change in two years |
D.questioning is necessary to promote advancement |
Can you say it is right or wrong for them to behave like that? Their changeable personalities leave you feeling angry and guilty at the same time. In fact, if your kids don’t annoy you from time to time, you’re not doing your job.
“There’s nothing wrong about being angry with your child,” Says Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., author of The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting. “Conflict is natural when your innocent, lovely child turns into an adolescent who can hardly tolerate (忍受) you. It’s part of the process of separation.” Kids insisted on their individuality with behavior to purposely drive you crazy. It’s their way of saying, “I am my own person” -- but doing it in a context that’s safe and that has clear limits.
So when your little darling changes into a silent person who still expects meals, clothing, and transportation, don’t panic. Here’s how to handle some common problems without losing your temper or your self-respect.
【小题1】It can be learned from the first paragraph that ________.
A.Jesse’s mother told a lie |
B.the writer was too sensitive |
C.Liz told a lie to her mother |
D.the writer’s daughter stayed at Jesse’s house |
A.when you are doing a job, your kids shouldn’t annoy you |
B.parents should be responsible for children’s bad behavior |
C.parents shouldn’t tolerate their children’s bad behavior |
D.it’s understandable for kids to annoy their parents |
A.It’s right for parents to be angry with their children. |
B.It’s allowed for children to do anything as they like. |
C.It’s bad behavior for children to drive their parents angry. |
D.It’s normal for adolescents to go against the wishes of their parents sometimes. |
A.How to be good parents. |
B.How to be good children. |
C.Rules for children to follow. |
D.How to deal with adolescents’ common problems properly. |
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