We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects(缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things     !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe     .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been      for years—often from    childhood. These stories may have no     in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical （操作機(jī)械的） skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life. ” How did these expectations      my development? I was never      to work on cars or be around     . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later,    , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. For my strong points, I      down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking. ” For the      , I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills. ”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life      and told him about my      performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “     is it that you can solve       mathematical problems, but you can’t solve easy mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t      from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to     . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been      my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true.     , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have genetic defects that we can never get over, we can do well in almost      we choose.
小題1:
A．a(chǎn)way B．offC．up D．down
小題2:
A．themB．myselfC．yourselfD．others
小題3:
A．saidB．spokenC．spreadD．repeated
小題4:
A．a(chǎn)s long asB．a(chǎn)s far back asC．a(chǎn)s well asD．a(chǎn)s much as
小題5:
A．evidenceB．wisdomC．causeD．meaning
小題6:
A．leadB．improveC．a(chǎn)ffectD．change
小題7:
A．encouragedB．demandedC．hopedD．a(chǎn)greed
小題8:
A．meansB．toolsC．facilitiesD．hammers
小題9:
A．thereforeB．somehowC．insteadD．however
小題10:
A．settledB．turnedC．tookD．got
小題11:
A．shortB．otherC．weakD．latter
小題12:
A．experiencesB．tripsC．roadsD．paths
小題13:
A．unexpectedB．poorC．excellentD．a(chǎn)verage
小題14:
A．WhenB．WhatC．HowD．Why
小題15:
A．challengingB．a(chǎn)dvancedC．common D．normal
小題16:
A．handleB．separateC．sufferD．come
小題17:
A．believeB．doubtC．a(chǎn)doptD．receive
小題18:
A．weakeningB．strengtheningC．questioningD．a(chǎn)ccepting
小題19:
A．As a resultB．At the same timeC．In additionD．Instead
小題20:
A．everything B．somethingC．nothingD．none

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:B
小題5:A
小題6:C
小題7:A
小題8:B
小題9:D
小題10:C
小題11:C
小題12:A
小題13:B
小題14:D
小題15:A
小題16:C
小題17:A
小題18:B
小題19:D
小題20:A

試題分析：本文通過(guò)作者自己的故事告訴我們，做任何事情要有自信，如果我們自己不認(rèn)為自己有基因的缺陷，我們就能做好我們所選擇的任何事情。
小題1: B。固定搭配.put off推遲，延誤；put up搭建，留宿；put down寫(xiě)下，記下；put away根據(jù)上文可以看出我總是推遲事情。
小題2:C。A他們B我自己C你自己D其他人；句意為：可能你常用上面的情況來(lái)描述你自己。根據(jù)句意，選C。
小題3:D。根據(jù)for many years 可以知道“這種評(píng)論來(lái)源的故事已經(jīng)重復(fù)多年了�！睆暮笪囊部芍牢曳磸�(fù)說(shuō)自己“You can’t do this！”久而成真。
小題4:B。A只要C和，同，也，并；D多達(dá)；這種評(píng)論已經(jīng)許多年了，而且可以追溯到兒童時(shí)代。as far back as 早在，遠(yuǎn)在。
小題5:A。名詞辨析。A證據(jù)B智慧C原因D意義；根據(jù)后文可知,“這些故事實(shí)際上是沒(méi)有依據(jù)的”。
小題6:C。動(dòng)詞辨析。A帶領(lǐng)B提高，改善C影響D改變；從后文的考試成績(jī)最差可以知道母親的話對(duì)我的發(fā)展影響有多大。
小題7: A。動(dòng)詞辨析。A鼓勵(lì)B要求C希望D同意從來(lái)沒(méi)有人鼓勵(lì)我從事汽車工具類事情。
小題8: B。名詞辨析。A方法B工具，技能C設(shè)備D錘子；根據(jù)前文的機(jī)械類的技能可以知道這里應(yīng)選B。
小題9:D。雖然我的考試成績(jī)很差，六年后我還是上大學(xué)了。由上下文可以看出是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。
小題10:C。動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)辨析。Take down寫(xiě)下，記下。根據(jù)后面write 可以知道前面是take down 寫(xiě)下的意思。
小題11: C。形容詞辨析。A短的B其他的C虛弱的，消極的D較晚的；與前面positive 形成對(duì)比所以選C。
小題12:A。名詞辨析。A經(jīng)歷B旅行C道路D通道；我向老師解釋我的經(jīng)歷。
小題13:B。告訴老師我的經(jīng)歷和糟糕的考試成績(jī)。前文提到自己的考試成績(jī)很差，所以選B。
小題14: D。上下文串聯(lián)。根據(jù)ask 一詞可以判斷用why。
小題15: A。形容詞辨析。A有挑戰(zhàn)性的B先進(jìn)的C普通的D正常的。從后面simple一詞可以知道此處應(yīng)是“復(fù)雜的”的意思。
小題16: C。suffer from遭受……之苦，患……病。其它短語(yǔ)均不符合句意。
小題17:A。語(yǔ)境理解,從前面老師說(shuō)我能解決復(fù)雜的數(shù)學(xué)題，而不能解決簡(jiǎn)單的機(jī)械類問(wèn)題，所以我意識(shí)到我沒(méi)有這方面的遺傳缺陷，而我僅僅實(shí)現(xiàn)了我所選擇的我相信的期望。
小題18: B。作者明白了不是家人和朋友強(qiáng)化了我相信自己在機(jī)械方面無(wú)望，而是我自己的反復(fù)認(rèn)為自己不行。
小題19:D。上下文串聯(lián)。與前文形成對(duì)比。相反，如果我們自己不認(rèn)為自己有基因的缺陷，我們就能做好我們所選擇的任何事情。
小題20:A。詞義辨析。A所有事情B一些事情C沒(méi)有事情D一個(gè)也沒(méi)有。相反，如果我們自己不認(rèn)為自己有基因的缺陷，我們就能做好我們所選擇的任何事情。
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I believe in leaving work at five o’clock. In a nation with such a strict work ethic(道德規(guī)范) , this is considered strange. Working only 40 hours a week? I just don’t know many people who punch out (打卡下班) at five o’clock anymore.
My father tried to teach me the importance of hard work, long hours and devotion to a career. But then there are the things he taught me unintentionally, like when he arrived home from work for the last time and crawled up the stairs.
My father, a self-employed sales trainer, was that sick, that tired. His body was wracked with liver cancer, and he suffered the effects of a diabetic ulcer（糖尿�。�. Despite all this, he insisted on traveling a long way to give a lecture. He probably earned a lot of money that day, but he paid the price. He returned to the hospital soon afterwards and was dead within three months, aged just 58.
It’s been 10 years since I saw my father come home that night and since then, I’ve thought a lot about work. I’ve decided something: I will never crawl up the stairs exhausted. As much as I love my job as a newspaper reporter, I will never work myself into the ground, physically or emotionally. Not taking my work home didn’t come easily to me at first. After all, I am my father’s daughter. In college, I was the girl who sat on the library steps each morning, waiting for the doors to open. I even dreamt about schoolwork.
My dad once told me he was unable to just gaze at a sunset; he had to be doing something as he looked at it—writing, reading, playing chess. You could say he was a success: He was a published author, an accomplished musician, fluent in many languages. That’s an impressive list, but the thing is I want to gaze at sunsets. I don’t want to meet a deadline during them or be writing a column at the same time, or glance at them over the top of a book.
This raises the question: If I leave work at five o’ clock to watch the sunset, what are the consequences? Do I risk not reaching the top of my profession? Maybe, because honestly, knocking off after eight hours probably won’t earn me the best promotion. But hey, leaving work at five o’ clock means I eat dinner with my family. I get to hop on my bike and cycle through the streets of my hometown when there is no traffic.
And I get to take in a lot of sunsets. That’s got to be worth something.
小題1:Which of the following about the author’s father is true?
A．He set a good example to his daughter.
B．He tried to force his values on his daughter.
C．He gained much pleasure from his work.
D．He achieved great success at the expense of his health.
小題2:What does the author mean by saying “Not taking my work home did not come easily at first” in Paragraph 4?
A．There was so much work to do.
B．All her colleagues took work home.
C．She was educated to be a workaholic.
D．She wanted a promotion in her work.
小題3:What’s the author’s attitude toward promotion?
A．She doesn’t care about it at all.
B．She is eager to get promoted
C．She thinks it’s for the ambitious people
D．Getting promoted at all costs is not worthwhile
小題4: This text is developed________.
A．by giving examplesB．by making comparisons
C．by describing processD．by order of time
小題5: What does the writer intend to tell us?
A．To praise his father’s diligence
B．To ask us to take time off work to enjoy life
C．To complain about the strict work ethic
D．To stress the importance of hard work

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six - year – old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. “Yes, honey. Of course.” she said.“Can we write him a letter?”
She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, “Yes.”My heart jumped. “How? Does the mailman go there?” I asked.
“No, but I have an idea.” Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for.“Just wait, honey. You’ll see.” Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six - year - old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped the balloon string. We went out-side and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.“Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three.”The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he’d persevere, dart up, and finally transcend this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was passed on. I prayed to be a balloon.
小題1:When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother _________.
A．believed it easy to do soB．thought her a creative girl
C．felt it hard to answerD．found it easy to lie
小題2: When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she __________.
A．jumped with joy
B．was worried that it couldn’t be delivered
C．started writing immediately
D．became excited
小題3: In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like?
A．An incurable disease
B．An unforgettable memory.
C．The failures her father experienced
D．The hard time her father had.
小題4: What would be the best title for the passage?
A．An unforgettable experienceB．Fly to the heaven
C．The strong red balloonD．A great father

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科目：高中英語(yǔ) 來(lái)源：不詳 題型：完形填空

June was lying by the Olympic size swimming pool in her new swimsuit. She was really hot and dived into water.        else was in the pool. The refreshing water cooled her body immediately, which       her to continue doing some laps there.
Now having swum in the past several years and being a bit out of      , June began to tire      . “Ah, no pains, no gains,” June thought to herself. June       to swim, realizing her head was      . Breathing became difficult. Her vision wasn’t so      . She saw the lifeguard and a couple of others around the pool. No sense in       anyone. She continued.
She found       in the middle of the pool. Deciding not to make a scene, she continued to swim.      , she made it to the other side of the pool. Nausea (惡心), weakness and exhaustion (精疲力竭)       it difficult for June to get out of the pool.       she stood, her body slowly shook back and forth, Losing her      .
Realizing she needed help but       to even say anything, she       the pool side and stood there. Several minutes later she had enough energy to only       her body up out of the pool. Sitting at the side of the pool with her feet in the water she felt that someone was       at her. It was the lifeguard. June was just able to       her hand, telling him she was okay.
Have you ever found yourself in a      where you’re in trouble and you don’t ask for help? There is nothing       in asking for help. June could have drowned. However, we all have the tendency, as June did.
小題1:
A．someone B．No oneC．AnyoneD．Everyone
小題2:
A．a(chǎn)dvised B．encouragedC．a(chǎn)llowedD．forced
小題3:
A．mindB．timeC．shapeD．fashion
小題4:
A．hardlyB．easilyC．falselyD．unexpectedly
小題5:
A．remainedB．stoppedC．happenedD．continued
小題6:
A．hurting B．hurtC．sufferingD．suffered
小題7:
A．sureB．cleanC．clearD．poor
小題8:
A．botheringB．interrupting C．a(chǎn)ttractingD．helping
小題9:
A．oneB．it C．herD．herself
小題10:
A．LastlyB．FinallyC．SuddenlyD．Surprisingly
小題11:
A．foundB．letC．madeD．felt
小題12:
A．SinceB．AsC．UntilD．Unless
小題13:
A．lifeB．courageC．chanceD．balance
小題14:
A．unable B．readyC．proudD．a(chǎn)fraid
小題15:
A．lay onB．came acrossC．leaned againstD．fought with
小題16:
A．pullB．pushC．raisedD．rise
小題17:
A．laughing B．staringC．glimpsingD．shrugging
小題18:
A．holdB．lendC．moveD．wave
小題19:
A．conditionB．a(chǎn)tmosphereC．situation D．environment
小題20:
A．difficultB．differentC．usefulD．wrong

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