How to Get What I Want?
There’s an expression: “What you see is what you get.” My grandfather used to say: “If you looked at a tree long enough, it will move.” We see what we want to see. Psychologists tell us that nothing controls our lives more than our self-image. We live like the person we see in the mirror. We are what we think we are. If you don’t think you’ll be successful, you won’t. You can’t be it if you can’t see it. Your life is limited to your vision. If you want to change your life, you must change your vision of your life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not that famous in 1976 when he met with a newspaper reporter. The reporter asked Schwarzenegger: “Now that you’ve retired from bodybuilding, what do you plan to do next?” Schwarzenegger answered very calmly and confidently: “I’m going to be the No. 1 movie star in Hollywood.” The reporter was shocked and amused at Schwarzenegger’s plan. At that time, it was very hard to imagine how this muscle-bound bodybuilder, who was not a professional actor and who spoke poor English with a strong Austrian accent, could ever hope to be Hollywood’s No. 1 movie star!
So when the reporter asked Schwarzenegger how he planned to make his dream come true, Schwarzenegger said: “I’ll do it the same way I became the No. 1 bodybuilder in the world. What I do was create a vision of who I want to be, and then I start living like that person in my mind as if it were already true.” Sounds almost childishly simple, doesn’t it? But I worked! Schwarzenegger became the No. 1 highest paid movie star in Hollywood. Remember: “If you can see it, you can be it.”
There’s a successful businessman who often wears a shirt with these words on it: “Don’t just pursue your dreams. Chase down and tackle! ” you only get one life to live, so why not live the best life possible? So you can be fully satisfied at what you see and get.What did Arnold Schwarzenegger do before he became a Hollywood star?
| A．He worked for a newspaper. |
| B．He was a man working on bodybuilding. |
| C．He worked in a small film company. |
| D．He was a businessman. |
Why was it hard for the reporter to believe that Schwarzenegger would become a star one day?
| A．Because he was not famous. |
| B．Because he was not professional and spoke poor English. |
| C．Because he was good at nothing except bodybuilding. |
| D．Because he only spoke English fluently. |
What did Schwarzenegger plan to do to make his Hollywood star dream come true?
| A．He continued to build his body. |
| B．He went to make more movies. |
| C．He lived a life like a movie star. |
| D．He tried his best to meet the movie directors. |
What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?
| A．Have a dream and make it come true. |
| B．Stop your dream and find realistic things to do. |
| C．You can just daydream alone. |
| D．There’s nothing to do in the world but dream. |
Imagine you’re at a party full of strangers. You’re nervous. Who are these people? How do you start a conversation? Fortunately, you’ve get a thing that sends out energy at tiny chips in everyone’s name tag (标签). The chips send back name, job, hobbies, and the time available for meeting – whatever. Making new friends becomes simple.
This hasn’t quite happened in real life. But the world is already experiencing a revolution using RFID technology.
An RFID tag with a tiny chip can be fixed in a product, under your pet’s skin, even under your own skin. Passive RFID tags have no energy source – batteries because they do not need it. The energy comes from the reader, a scanning device (装置), that sends out energy (for example, radio waves) that starts up the tag immediately.
Such a tag carries information specific to that object, and the data can be updated. Already, RFID technology is used for recognizing each car or truck on the road and it might appear in your passport. Doctors can put a tiny chip under the skin that will help locate and obtain a patient’s medical records. At a nightclub in Paris or in New York the same chip gets you into the VIP (very important person ) section and pays for the bill with the wave of an arm.
Take a step back: 10 or 12 years ago, you would have heard about the coming age of computing. One example always seemed to surface: Your refrigerator would know when you needed to buy more milk. The concept was that computer chips could he put everywhere and send information in smart network that would make ordinary life simpler.
RFID tags are a small part of this phenomenon. “The world is going to be a loosely coupled set of individual small devices, connected wirelessly.” Predicts Dr. J. Reich. Human right supporters are nervous about the possibilities of such technology. It goes too far tracking school kids through RFID tags, they say. We imagine a world in which a beer company could find out not only when you bought a beer but also when you drank it. And how many beers, accompanied by how many biscuits.
When Marconi invented radio, he thought it would be used for ship – to – shore communication, not for pop music. Who knows how RFID and related technologies will be used in the future. Here’s a wild guess: Not for buying milk.The article is intended to .
| A．warn people of the possible risks in adopting RFID technology |
| B．explain the benefits brought about by RFID technology |
| C．convince people of the uses of RFID technology |
| D．predict the applications of RFID technology |
We know from the passage that with the help of RFID tags, people .
| A．will have no trouble getting information about others |
| B．will have more energy for conversation |
| C．will have more time to make friends |
| D．won’t feel shy at parties any longer |
Passive RFID tags chiefly consist of .
| A．scanning devices | B．radio waves | C．batteries | D．chips |
The last paragraph implies that RFID technology .
| A．will not be used for such matters as buying milk |
| B．will be widely used, including for buying milk |
| C．will be limited to communication uses |
| D．will probably be used for pop music |
Leeds, England--A Leeds University psychology(心理学) professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Britons forgive their enemies.
“The hatred(痛恨) we hold within us is a cancer,” Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
More than 70 people have become members in Hart’s first 20-week workshop in London ---a course he says is the first of its kind in the world.
These are people who are sick and tired of living with the memory. “They realize their bitterness(痛楚) is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, ” said Canadian-born Hart.
The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with a visit to an adviser every fortnight.
The course, ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people. “People have lots of negative(否定) attitudes(态度) towards forgiveness,” he said. “People confuse(使混乱) forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one.”
Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.
“The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitude toward the person you are angry with,” said Norman Claring-bull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project.
Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people “want to get free from the past”.The author wrote this passage in order to ______.
| A．persuade us to go to Hart’s workshop |
| B．tell us the news about Hart’s workshop |
| C．tell us how to run a workshop like Hart’s |
| D．help us to look at different angers |
From the passage we can find that ________.
A. high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hatred
B. high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors
C. without hatred, people have less trouble connected with blood and heart
D people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemiesIn Hart’s first 20-week workshop, people there can ________.
| A．meet their enemies | B．change their minds |
| C．enjoy the professor’s speech | D．learn how to quarrel with others |
If you are a member in Hart’s workshop, you’ll have to _________.
| A．pay much money to Hart | B．go to the workshop every night |
| C．attend a gathering twice a month | D．pour out everything stored in your mind |
American farmers are raising five percent more goats for meat these days．
Goat meat is high in protein(蛋白质)and lower in unhealthy fat than many other meats．Even so，the industry is small compared to chicken，beef and pork. But immigration has brought more of a taste for goat to America from all over the world.
Experts from the University of Illinois offer some questions for people to consider if they are thinking about raising goats．
First of all，do you understand that there always has to be someone to care for the goats?
◆How much land do you have available? And how good is it? Poor ground may support two to four goats on half a hectare．Better grassland can support six to eight. If goats and cattle share the land，two goats can be added for each cow. The goats will eat weeds and other plants that cattle do not like．
◆Do you have buildings for the number of female goats you plan to keep during winter? An open，cold，dry barn is better than a closed，warm barn where the air is wet．
◆Do you have the equipment to clean barns（畜棚） and to harvest hay（草料） to feed your goats? Or will you get someone else to do it，or buy the hay?
The experts say a profitable business in goat meat may take three to five years to establish．And, of course, there are no guarantees .On which section of a newspaper will this passage appear?
| A．International Affairs | B．Entertainment |
| C．Agriculture | D．Culture |
Which of the following is NOT a factor in making goat meat more popular?
| A．Goat meat is healthy food. |
| B．Immigrants bring different tastes. |
| C．The industry still leaves room for profit. |
| D．Raising goats is challenging. |
If someone has two hectares of good grass land, what is the maximum number of cows and goats he can raise?
| A．32 cows and 64 goats． | B．32 cows and 32 goats． |
| C．16 cows and 32 goats． | D．8 cows and 16 goats． |
What is the experts’ opinion about the goat-raising business?
| A．You can make sure money． |
| B．You had better be cautious and patient． |
| C．Goats are hardly possible to raise． |
| D．Goat meat still needs to be recognized． |
When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often. It is only when we can not see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are. People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly. People who are farsighted face just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too. Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts（白内障）. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them. When night falls, colors become fainter（不清楚） to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the side of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they can not see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark. We don’t know that our eyes are of great importance until ________.
| A．we think about our eyes | B．we cannot see clearly |
| C．we wear glasses | D．we have to do much reading |
According to the passage, a ________ is more likely to be nearsighted.
| A．student | B．runner | C．guard | D．worker |
People who are farsighted ________ .
| A．cannot do a lot of close work without glasses |
| B．can only see things that are very close to their eyes |
| C．have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm’s length |
| D．have the same problem as the nearsighted people |
To see a small thing at night, it is better to look ________ .
| A．with wide open eyes | B．with half shut or narrowed eyes |
| C．straight at it | D．in a slightly different direction |
| Welcome to Hong Kong Disneyland |
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| Sight spot |
What to do and see |
| Main Street USA |
See old-time taxis and yellow street lamps Enjoy delicious food in the shops or restaurants in a small town in the 1900s |
| Fantasyland |
Take a train high up in the air to Sleeping Beauty Castle Talk to Donald Duck Sit on a flying elephant Go under the sea |
| Adventure land |
Go into a dark jungle（丛林） Follow the river and meet surprises at every corner Watch the dancing and listen to music The Lion King |
| Tomorrow land |
Join a cartoon character to save the world Rocket through outer space in a spaceship |
| Special (not in other Disneyland parks) |
Mickey in a red-and-yellow Chinese suit Mulan in her own pavilion(亭子) Fireworks at night with music |
Walking on Main Street USA is ____________.
| A．the start of Disneyland | B．being back in time |
| C．living on a quiet street | D．shopping on a busy street |
Which is NOT TRUE according to the form above?
| A．We can talk to Donald Duck. |
| B．Surprises are waiting for us along the river in Adventure land. |
| C．We can enjoy fireworks at night. |
| D．The flying elephant will take us to Sleeping Beauty Castle |
Li Ping likes science-fiction best, so he’ll show the greatest interest in _______.
| A．Main Street USA | B．Fantasyland |
| C．Adventure land | D．Tomorrow land |
What is special in Hong Kong Disneyland?
| A．Visitors can join a cartoon character. |
| B．Visitors can listen to the music The Lion King. |
| C．Visitors can see Mickey in a Chinese suit. |
| D．Visitors can go under the sea. |
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