题型：阅读选择 题类： 难易度：困难
浙江省温州市第八中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期12月英语月考试卷
Maybe you' ve experienced it before: You' re nervous, you find it difficult to sleep or eat, everything seems to be so worrying. And if you haven't experienced it yourself, maybe you' ve heardLeBron James says that even 20 more years into his NBA life he still gets nervous— even before the common season games. Why? Because he loves what he does and he loves that he's still getting to do it. He welcomes the nerves: the nerves, he says, give him a sense of being present, of feeling alive.
So if you' re looking forward to a point in your work when you don't get so nervous anymore. maybe it's time to stop. Because the nerves don't go away when you' re excited about what it is you get to do. And the nerves can even help you to perform at your best. However, the trickiest things about nerves may be that they help or harm us so much as we believe that they help or harm us. Our understanding of our nervousness— as it usually does— becomes the truth. So how can we deal with it properly?
____ . One thing that we can do is to believe that stress can even be good. In fact, according to the science research, there is a kind of"good stress," the one that we have to have for learning and growth. Without it, we' re either bored or refusing to get out of our comfort zone, and therefore not getting any better at what it is we'd like to do. The next important step is to notice when they start to fall from proper challenges into tiredness, even become sickness, or pain. When such a moment happens, you need to remind yourself that it is natural and try to calm yourself down, trying to come back to what you can control.
Breathing is the only thing that we can control. This is not to say"just breathe," because that's hardly helpful advice. But that is what you can hold on to in that case. Practice breathing, you can become calm again bit by bit. What comes next will also become matter of the course.
Anyway, if you love what you do and you want to keep getting better at doing it, allow yourself to find out what you need to make friends with your nerves, it is such a frightening word as it sounds.
A Sheet of An Interview
DATE: October. 29, 2023 PLACE: The office of TIME for Kids
NAME: Mitu Khandaker JOB: game developer, teacher, owner of a company
Q: {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
A: To be a game designer, you can just go to school for game design and development. That's one way you can take. But if school isn't for you, there are lots of ways to get training.
Q:{#blank#}2{#/blank#}
A: Being a game developer is like wearing a lot of different hats at the same time. One minute, I might be fixing (修理). Another minute, I might be solving a design problem, or creating art. The other part of the job is working with people. It's teamwork.
Q: {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
A: The best game designers are people who have all kind of interests, because you want to bring those into games. So yes, you might love playing games painting or just listening to music. Whatever your interests are, there is a space for that in games to tell these amazing new stories.
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A: I would love for my work to change the way people think about representation(代表) in games. For me, growing up as a little brown girl, I didn't see any characters who looked like me. That's something I really want to change.
Q: {#blank#}5{#/blank#}
A: Just follow your heart and believe in yourself. If you like writing stories or whatever it is, there is a place for you in games. Don't take no for an answer. That's how I got to where I am.
A. What makes a great game designer? B. What's it like to be a game designer? C. How do you develop your interests? D. How can we become game designers? E. What's your advice for future game designers? F. What do you want to change as a game designer? |
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