We live in an age full of opportunities: If you are smart enough, and have got ambition and keep pushing forward, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, no matter where you started out.But with opportunity comes responsibility.Companies today aren't managing their employees' careers.Professional workers must be their own chief executive officers (CEO).It's up to you to strive for your place, to keep yourself engaged and productive during a working life that may last around 50 years.To do those things well, you'll need to have a deep understanding of yourself — not only what your strengths and weaknesses are, but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution, because only when you operate from strength can you achieve true excellence.History's great achievers — Napoléon, da Vinci, and Mozart — have always managed themselves.But they are so unusual both in their talents and in their accomplishments as to be considered rare exceptions.Now, most of us, even those of us with modest talents, will have to learn to manage ourselves.We will have to learn to develop ourselves.We will have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution.And we will have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do.1.Companies today are responsible for employee's career.()2.It is the CEO who decides your place.()3.You need to understand your company well so that you can do things well.()4.Understanding yourself means knowing well about your strengths, weaknesses, your values, how you learn, how you do with others and so on.()5.Ordinary people cannot manage themselves well.()

第1题

The greatest change has been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there h

as been a remarkable shortening of the time of woman's life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty years and is likely to take paid work until retirement, at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by modem living conditions.

This important change in women's life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first chance, and most of them took a full time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen. Many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry younger, more married women stay at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to fuller part-time job. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the house, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.

6. According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ____.

A. at about twenty-five

B. in their early fifties

C. as soon as possible after they were fifteen

D. at any age from fifteen to forty-five

7. We are told that in a common family in 1890s _____.

A. seven or eight children lived to be more man five

B. many children died before they were five

C. the youngest children would be fifteen

D. four or five children died when they were five

8. When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth century mother ____.

A. would be healthy enough to take paid jobs

B. was usually expected to die fairly soon

C. was unlikely to find a job if she wanted one

D. would expect to work till she died

9. According to the passage, the women of today usually____.

A. marry instead of getting paid work

B. marry before they are twenty-five

C. have more children under fifteen

D. have too few children

10. The best title for this passage is____.

A. Women’s Life

B. The Change of Women's life

C. Women's Marriage

D. Women's New Life

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第2题

Have you wished for a magic pill or magic formula that would let you live happily fore

ver？ If you have, don’t feel alone! It’s a very common, natural wish that has a long history.Spanish explorers of the sixteenth century even tried to find a fountain of youth in what is now the state of Florida.The water the this legendary fountain, which no one has yet found, was believed to restore youth and good health to those who drank it.

Biologists today don’t expect that anyone will find a magical fountain of youth.Growing older is a natural part of the life cycle that can’t be reversed.As human beings grow older, organs such as the heart and lungs may stop functioning properly.Sight and hearing may become weak.And the human body becomes more likely to come down with serious illnesses from which it cannot recover.

Considered together, changes that bring about the decline of an organism are called aging.Because of aging, many biologists believe that there may be a maximum age limit to which even the healthiest organisms can live.For human beings, this maximum age limit is about 110 years.

Perhaps the most important thing that you can learn from your study of human biology is that you have a lot of control over the aging process in your own life.In fact, within our control are many physical and mental factors that have much to do with aging.For example, each of us, as recent research indicates, can do many things to help prevent heart and vessel disease, which causes half the death each year in the United States.We can avoid eating a lot of fatty meat.Eating too much of these types of animal fats can lead to the clogging and hardening of blood vessels.We can cut back on smoking and hopefully quit entirely.We can limit the amount of alcohol we drink and the amount of sugar we eat.We can exercise regularly and strengthen the heart and other organs.And we can remember to take time out each day for ourselves, time just relax.Exercise, recreation and relaxation all reduce stress – inner tension that is hard on all body organs.

One final thing we can do is to try to keep aware of advances made in health education.Information is often available free of charge from health clinics or schools.

1.Which of the following is the leading cause of death in the United States？

A.Heart disease.

B.Cancer

C.Alcohol

D.Smoking

2.What happens as people grow older？

A.They dream of a magic pill to help them live a happy and long life

B.They come down with serious illnesses

C.Their organs become weak and may stop working properly

D.Their blood vessels become clogged

3.In the opinion of biologists, _________.

A.the aging process can be reversed

B.the aging process can be controlled and slowed down

C.the aging process can be got rid of

D.the aging process can go beyond its limit

4.We can slow down the weakening of all our body organs by ______.

A.not eating animal fat

B.limiting drinking and smoking

C.exercise, recreation and relaxation to reduce stress

D.preventing the clogging and hardening of blood vessels

5.Besides physical and mental factors, which of the following also contributes to living a long and healthy life according tot the passage？

A.Health education

B.Traditional medicine

C.artificial organs

D.The invention of magic pills

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第3题

"We looked at how much television children watched before age 3 and then at ages

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第4题

Which of the following best explains Amrit Desai's words "we live divided liv

A.We pollute Mother Earth in pursuing a better life,which, consequently, hurts ourselves

B.We are never satisfied with what we have, and we do not make good use of natural resources

C.If Mother Earth is ill, we, as her children, cannot live a complete life

D.Though we have created the environmental problem, we try to separate ourselves from it

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第5题

We eat to live and we do not live to eat.

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第6题

It was in this house _______ we used to live in.A: whereB: thatC: whichD: in which

It was in this house _______ we used to live in.

A: where

B: that

C: which

D: in which

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第7题

An older friend once gave me a piece of advice, “Enjoy the last few weeks of college,” she said, “since college is the best time of your life.”

This was not the first time I’d heard such a statement，but with graduation fast coming close, her words especially struck me. It seemed a bit disappointing to reach one’s life peak at only 22 years of age, but in her opinion，college had been one of the best times in my life so far. I made friends, took classes, and learned a great deal about myself. But I was also excited for the time after college—moving to a new city, starting a new job, and becoming a “real” person. I hoped that my great dreams were practical.

Then, last week I read a column in Real Simple Magazine called 100 Years of Attitude, in which women 100 years or older shared their life experiences and views. I noticed that none of them considered college as the “best” time of their life. Not all of them went to college，but still in most cases their teens and twenties were not the best times of their life. They said some of their favorite times were raising their children, traveling after retirement, and even enjoying their present time and age.

Enjoying one’s present time and age was a clear theme of the interviews. A piece of advice given by the women was about the importance of making the best of all situations. I think it more accurate than that of my friend; I can say with certainty that if I am lucky enough to make it to 100. I refuse to spend the last 80 years of my life plummeting (跌落) downhill，or even leveling off.

I am sure that our eagerness and devotion will make us college students live a meaningful life. We will not just look backwards or miss our college days. We will look forward in excitement about continued journey uphill.

1.Which of the following opinions does the writer agree with?

A.College is the best time of one’s life.

B.Twenties were the best time of the old people.

C.One should make the best of all situations.

D.One should not look backwards at their college time.

2.In the second paragraph，the writer wants to say________.

A.her achievements in college would be the peak of her success

B.she is looking forward to living as a “real” person in college

C.she becomes more and more uneasy with graduation

D.she is satisfied with the college life but is hopeful for the future

3.The column the writer read is mainly about those old women’s ________.

A.best time of life at youth

B.life experiences and views

C.different opinions about life

D.favorite time with best friends

4.By saying “I refuse to spend the last 80 years of my life plummeting downhill，or even leveling off” (in Paragraph 4), the writer really means_____.

A.she will not spend the rest of her time at college

B.she will not just obtain a college level certificate

C.she will not be satisfied with what she has already accomplished

D.she will not be content with the life in the future

5.Which of the following words can be used to describe the writer?

A.Ambitious

B.Practical

C.Imaginative

D.Proud

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第8题

I told the foreign guests that it was in the house()we used to live that the exhibition was held.

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第9题

We have to consider such factors as age, sex, education, and family background.

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第10题

Aging happens to all of us, and is generally thought of as a natural part of life. It

would seem silly to call such a thing a "disease."

On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more. In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.

Biophysicist Alex Zhavoronkov believes that aging should be considered a disease. He said that describing aging as a disease creates incentives to develop treatments.

"It unties the hands of the pharmaceutical (制药的.industry so that they can begin treating the disease and not just the side effects," he said.

"Right now, people think of aging as natural and something you can't control," he said. "In academic circles, people take aging research as just an interest area where they can try to develop interventions. The medical community also takes aging for granted, and can do nothing about it except keep people within a certain health range."

But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, "It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable."

"It was always known that the body accumulates damage," he added. "The only way to cure aging is to find ways to repair that damage. I think of it as preventive medicine for age-related conditions."

Leonard Hayflick, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said the idea that aging can be cured implies the human lifespan can be increased, which some researchers suggest is possible. Hayflick is not among them.

"There're many people who recover from cancer, stroke, or heart disease. But they continue to age, because aging is separate from their disease," Hayflick said. "Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years."

66.What do people generally believe about aging______

A.It should cause no alarm whatsoever.

B.They just cannot do anything about it.

C.It should be regarded as a kind of disease.

D.They can delay it with advances in science.

67.How do many scientists view aging now______

A.It might be prevented and treated.

B.It can be as risky as heart disease.

C.It results from a vitamin deficiency.

D.It is an irreversible biological process.

68.What does Alex Zhavoronkov think of "describing aging as a disease"______

A.It will prompt people to take aging more seriously.

B.It will greatly help reduce the side effects of aging.

C.It will free pharmacists from the conventional beliefs about aging.

D.It will motivate doctors and pharmacists to find ways to treat aging.

69.What do we learn about the medical community______

A.They now have a strong interest in research on aging.

B.They differ from the academic circles in their view on aging.

C.They can contribute to people's health only to a limited extent.

D.They have ways to intervene in people's aging process.

70.What does professor Leonard Hayflick believe______

A.The human lifespan cannot be prolonged.

B.Aging is hardly separable from disease.

C.Few people live up to the age of 92.

D.Heart disease is the major cause of aging.

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第11题

Wouldn’t it be（）wonderful situation if we two can live in （）peace？

A.a, /

B.the, /

C.a, the

D.the, the

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