“Life’s a long, long journey(旅程)” so we are told, and most of us would not set off on a journey, even a short one, without some idea of where we wanted to go. Yet many people travel on life’s journey with no sense of direction at all.
Setting personal goals can give your life a sense of direction. Goal setting is used by top sports players, successful business people and achievers in all fields. Before you set personal goals, think about what you want to achieve with your life.
Try to set goals in some of the following categories.
| Education—Will you achieve the educational goals after finishing high-school? Are you still growing and learning? Family—What kind of relationship（关系）do you want with your parents and other family members? Creative—Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? |
Career—What job do you want to take when you grow up? What do you need to make your dream come true? Public Service—Do you want to make the world a better place? Physical—Are you fit enough to do the things you want to do? Pleasure—How do you want to enjoy yourself? |
Write down the goals and think about them carefully. Are they realistic? When will you be able to achieve them?
To help make the process (过程) more manageable, divide your goals into smaller tasks. For example, if you want to reach a main goal in five years, set a three-year goal, a one-year goal, a three-month goal and a one-month goal. Then create a daily To-Do List of things that you should do today. When a goal is achieved, take the time to enjoy your success. This helps you build the self-confidence.
Remember, your goals can change as time goes on. But be sure your goals are things you hope to achieve, not what your parents, family or teachers want.Is life a long journey according to the passage?
Why do you need to set your life goal?
What should you consider when you set a family goal?
How can we achieve the main goal easily?
What does the writer want to tell us?
Confidence is very important in daily life. It can help you to develop a healthy attitude （态度）.A study shows that the people who are more confident are much happier. They can have more chance to make themselves successful. But how to be more confident? Here are some suggestions:
·Speak loud When you are not confident, you can't do well what you want to do. You speak in a voice so low that other people can hardly hear you. Try to speak loud enough so that people can hear you clearly. The .high voice can help you become more confident.
·Play sports Physical exercise makes you tired but completely relaxed. [3] A strong body helps you be full of confidence.
·Encourage yourself Write down a list of things you did during the day to see how many things you have done well. Did you finish your homework? Did you tell a joke that made everybody laugh? Give yourself praise for the good things you've done.
·Get rid of （消除） fear Fear comes along with failure （失败）. But it's easy to overcome （克服） if you know that failure is part of your life. Don't hide your head just because you said something stupid last time. Try to start again and believe you can do better.
·Pick up a hobby If you like singing, sing as much as you can. [4] In some ways, a hobby can make you outstanding. And it will make you happy and confident.
A．根据短文内容简要回答问题。How many suggestions can help you to be more confident?
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B．将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。____________________________________________________________
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C．请给短文拟一个适当的标题。____________________________________________________________
Sam woke up suddenly. Someone was moving around in the next room. “Maybe it’s his grandmother, getting a glass of water,” he told himself. But the next room was the living room. It wasn’t near the kitchen. Sam’s parents were away, and there was only his grandmother in the house with him. He looked at his watch. It was three thirty! Too early for his grandmother to get up!
He got out of bed and opened the door very quietly. The window was open. A man was standing near it and looking in the dark drawers. His grandmother kept her money there! He thought quickly. Yes, the radio! He turned it on and a man’s voice filled the room. The thief felt scared and jumped onto the window. Then he jumped down two floors to the ground. He gave a shout.
His grandmother was awake and she called the police right away. The thief couldn’t get up, because his leg was badly hurt. When the policemen came, they were very happy. “Great, Sam,” said a policeman. “This man is a famous thief.”
根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。The living room was next to Sam’s bedroom. It was near the kitchen.
Only Sam and his grandmother were sleeping in the house that night.
.Sam shouted, so the thief was scared and jumped out of the house.
The thief wasn’t hurt at all after he jumped out of the house.
The policemen were very happy because they caught the famous thief.
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to control(控制) your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act”, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!The writer wants to tell us ____.
| A．not to get angry easily | B．to work hard at school |
| C．to do more exercises | D．to help each other |
The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends |
| C．put on weight easily | D．eat less |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.
| A．what to read | B．how to read |
| C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English well |
In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “it” refers to(指的是)____.
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |
What will the house look like in the future? Could it have gardens on its walls, or a pool with fish for dinner? Architects（建筑师） believe that they are all possible. The only thing for sure is that the houses will be as green as possible.
The tree house
Many architects in the world would like to build a “tree house.” Like a leaf, the surface of the house collects sunlight during the day. The energy can be used to heat water, produce electricity, and even create fresh air for the home. The “root” (根) of the house is deep under the ground. It uses the soil (土壤) to keep the home’s temperature.
The Lizard house
Like a lizard (蜥蜴), changing color with the weather is the most important design of a lizard house. When it’s in the bright sun, the cover of the house will turn dark to protect it from strong heat. During dark days, it turns white and takes in as much light and heat as possible to produce energy.
Meals at home
This design is perhaps as much about the future of food production as architecture (建筑风格). It has gardens on the outside wall of the house. People can plant tomatoes, carrots and green tea on them. So every day in the morning, you just need to walk outside and collect your meals.
Learning from the past
Looking to the future isn’t the only way to be green. Sometimes, ancient techniques (古老的技术) can also help cut down energy use. For example, a chimney (烟囱) can be a useful air conditioner because it is easier to flow out hot air from the chimney.What is the best title (标题) of the passage?
| A．Green house of the future | B．The greener, the better |
| C．How to build green houses | D．Changes of the houses |
We can heat water, produce electricity or create fresh air for the home_______.
| A．with the root of a leaf | B．with the energy from sunlight |
| C．with the soil under the ground | D．with gardens on its walls |
What will happen to the cover of the lizard house when it’s in the bright sun?
| A．It will take in light. | B．It will produce energy. |
| C．It will turn dark. | D．It will turn white. |
The passage seems to tell us that meals at home in the future________. .
| A．will be more delicious | B．need more cooks |
| C．cost as much as possible | D．will be greener |
A chimney can be a useful air conditioner but it used to cause________. .
| A．pollution | B．accident | C．noise | D．techniques |
When do you think of a forest, what do you see? Just trees? Or do you see many other things, such as singing birds, colorful plants and wild flowers?
The forest is a whole world of its own. It is full of many different living things(生物). But even though they are all different, they have one thing in common: they all need each other in order to live on.
The trees feed the forest “people” by making food in their leaves; by using sunlight to join water and minerals(矿物) from the soil and air. Their deep network of roots joins the soil together and stops it from dying out, making it possible for living things to live in it.
Human beings(人类) are like the living things in the forest. We need one another in order to live. We need the farmers to grow our food, railroad and truck drivers to bring it to our shops and clerks(售货员) to sell it to us. We need people to prepare our food and cook it and others to take our waste things away. Then, of course, we need doctors, nurses, government leaders, mailmen, telephone operators, and many others.
We also need other human beings in another way. We need people for friendship, to talk over our problems, exchange ideas. Think how lonely and unhappy you would be if you lived all alone.
Life is a matter of giving and taking. We need to help other people as much as we need other people to help us. Think what a good feeling you have when you have done something for someone else!According to the text, colorful plants and flowers live on _____.
| A．the leaves of the trees | B．water and minerals |
| C．the soil and air | D．all of the above |
It is the ____ that make it possible for living things to live in the forest.
| A．trees | B．birds | C．plants | D．farmers |
According to the writer, human beings are ______ the forest “people”.
| A．different from | B．like | C．dislike | D．unhappy with |
The writer mainly wants to tell us_______.
| A．we need people for friendship |
| B．we need one another in order to live |
| C．the forest is a whole world of its own |
| D．the forest is full of different living things |
Which one is the relationship(关系) between a forest and your life？
| A．We can see trees in the forests. |
| B．We like the living things in the forest. |
| C．We need farmers to grow our food in the forest. |
| D．We are the same as the forest; We need each other to live on. |