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湖南省师范大学附属中学2017-2018学年高三上学期英语第二次月考试卷
Stephen Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is very popular among business people who want to improve their careers.For example,Covey's principles can be used to improve relationships between parents and children or to improve the way you manage your time.
Covey begins by discussing habits and effectiveness,and why they are both important to success.According to Covey,for an action,such as listening to others,to become a habit,you must know what to do and why you should do it.However,you also must want to do.On the other hand,effectiveness means having a balance between success and a good relationship with the people around you.However,if the company does not respect its workers,the profits will eventually decline.
The first three habits focus on personal growth.The next three habits are about how to get along with others.The seventh habit shows how to achieve physical,emotional and mental health.
Covey includes exercises to help you analyse your life.He challenges you to identify what you want to contribute to society in your lifetime.He does this by asking you to think about what people to say about you after you dieFor example,if you want your children to say that you were always willing to spend time with them, then you will spend more time with them and less time at work
A.It has the potential to really improve your life.
B.In this way,you can challenge yourself to make your dreams and ambitions come true.
C.However,its principles can be applied to any area of life.
D.In order to be successful,you must have habits that make you able to deal effectively with others and your own personal life.
E.For example,a company might focus completely on making a profit.
F.Your answer to this question will help you make better decisions about how to spend your time.
G.Covey also introduces the seven habits of highly effective people.
People who are confident really seem to be naturally outstanding and just seem to do everything with more styles than others. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} It is a habit that everyone can develop in life. Try these simple tips to drill and build up your confidence:
1). Admit your shortcomings calmly.
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2). Dress for self-confidence.
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You should break your routine that deals with the work passively. Concentrate your efforts immediately on overcoming it, because it will make your restless mind at ease and build your self-confidence.
4). Be positive.
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A. Don't judge a person by appearance. B. Build your confident vocabulary. C. Don't put off what you eventually have to do. D. Actually, true self-confidence is neither born nor acquired overnight. E. By doing so, you would encourage your growth in a positive direction. F. Then talk about them to a reliable mate, a friend or a family member. G. Your appearance could put you into embarrassment or increase your confidence. |
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When a thought has found words
Poetry is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure and modern poets are looked upon as odd creatures from a strange universe. In Western high schools, poetry is seldom taught because it is considered old-fashioned and not relevant to the needs of today's students.
In China, however, poetry is still an important part of the curriculum and, with recent changes announced by the Ministry of Education, the number of poems students will have to memorize and recite is being increased from fourteen to seventy-two. Now, before you gasp in horror, let's think about the reasons why studying so many poems, especially ancient poems, is important.
First of all, poetry is an essential part of traditional Chinese culture. It is a pathway to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and emotions that are common to everyone but which we may be unable to express—the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, sadness and even anger, and a good poem can put those emotions into words and bring us self-understanding.
Poems can also express beauty. In a few short lines, even something commonplace can become beautiful. Here is a poem called "Fog" by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes / on silent haunches (弓腰蹲着) / and then moves on. Yes, fog does move smoothly, silently and mysteriously like a cat, and Sandberg captures that feeling and image, and makes it beautiful.
Of course, to really appreciate poetry, it has to be really aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music. Most ancient poetry, especially Western poetry, was actually spoken before it was written. Take Homer's Iliad (伊利亚德), the story of the Trojan War (特洛伊战争), for example. That epic saga (史诗般的故事) of Helen's kidnapping and the war that followed was apparently told for hundreds of years in palaces, taverns (客栈) and on street corners before Homer wrote it down and was given credit for it.
The American poet Robert Frost said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." And poems are very concise—there is not a wasted word. You are lucky that you now have seventy-two poems to learn!
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China's recent {#blank#}2{#/blank#} |
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Poetry is to read out. Poems are songs without music; Many ancient poems first appeared in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} form. |
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Chinese students should feel lucky to have seventy two poems to learn! |
Who's Really Addicting You To Technology?
“Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet”, wrote Tony Schwartz in The New York Times. It's a common complaint these days. A steady stream of similar headlines accuses the Net and its offspring apps, social media sites and online games of addicting us to distraction.
There's little doubt that nearly everyone who comes in contact with the Net has difficulty disconnecting. Then who's at fault for its overuse? To find solutions, it's important to understand what we're dealing with. There are four parties cooperating to keep you connected: the tech, your boss, your friends and you.
The technologies themselves and their makers are the easiest suspects to blame for our distraction. Online services like Facebook, Google, twitter and the like rely on advertising revenue, so the more frequently you use them, the more money they make. No wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on improving their services to be as attractive as possible.
Good as these services are, there are simple steps we can take to keep them from coming too close. However, less than 15 percent of smartphone users are willing to adjust their notification settings meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to (默认)the app makers' every preset devices.
While companies like Facebook harvest attention to generate revenue from advertisers, other technologies have no such agenda. Take email, for example. We check email at all hours of the day we're obsessed, because that's what the boss wants. For almost all white-collar jobs, email is the primary tool of corporate communication. A slow response to a message could hurt not only your reputation but also your livelihood.
Your friends are also responsible for the addiction. Think about this familiar scene. People gathered around a table, enjoying food and each others' company. Then, during an interval in the conversation, someone takes out their phone to check who knows what. Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.
The reality is taking one's phone out at the wrong time is more than an impolite behavior because, unlike other minor offense, checking tech is contagious (传染). Once one person looks at their phone, other people tend to do the same, starting a chain reaction.
Hie technology, your boss, and your friends, all influence how often you find yourself using (or overusing) these gadgets. But there's still someone who deserves careful examination the person holding the phone.
When people are doing something difficult they'd rather not do, the phone is used to transport them elsewhere. They can easily escape discomfort temporarily, by answering email or browsing the web under the excuse of so-called “research”. The truth is that we are working unproductively out of our bad habits.
Personal technology is indeed more attractive than ever, which doesn't mean we shouldn't attempt to control our use of technology, instead, we should come to terms with the fact that it's more than the technology that's responsible for our habits. Our workplace culture, social norms and individual behaviors all play a part.
Who's Really Addicting You To Technology? |
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A common phenomenon |
More and more people are getting addicted to some {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to the Internet nowadays. Those who have difficulty disconnecting often lay {#blank#}2{#/blank#} on the Net and its offspring apps. |
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The technologies |
Some online services like Facebook are designed attractively for {#blank#}3{#/blank#} reasons. Most people won't {#blank#}4{#/blank#}to make any adjustment to the preset devices. |
Your boss |
Emails are widely used for communication in many companies. White-collar employees check emails hourly as a delayed response may {#blank#}5{#/blank#}them reputation and livelihood. |
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Your friends |
A check on the phone is often taken for {#blank#}6{#/blank#} though it's sometimes impolite with friends around. One tends to {#blank#}7{#/blank#}suit when seeing; his friends surfing on the phone. |
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You (The users) |
Technologies can be used as a good excuse to {#blank#}8{#/blank#}ourselves from something boring or challenging. Some had habits as well as technologies give {#blank#}9{#/blank#} to our distraction. |
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Conclusion |
Technology {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is not the root of the problem with our addition, as many other factors also play a part. |
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