英语知识复习
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We live in an age of unprecedented(空前的) opportunity: If you’ve got abition, drive, and sarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession—regardless of where you started out fro. But nowadays copanies aren’t anaging their knowledge workers’ careers. Rather, we ust each be our own chief executive officer. Only when you operate fro a cobination of your strengths and self-knowledge can you achieve true and lasting excellence.
To build a life of excellence, begin by asking yourself these questions:
“What Are y Strengths?”
To accurately identify your strengths, use feedback analysis. Every tie you ake a key decision, write down the outcoe you expect. Several onths later, copare the actual results with your expected results. Look for patterns in what you are seeing: What results are you skilled at generating? What unproductive habits are preventing you fro creating the outcoes you desire? In identifying opportunities for iproveent, don’t waste tie developing skill areas where you have little copetence. Instead, concentrate on and build on your strengths.

“What Are y Values?”
What are your ethics(道德标准)? What do you see as your ost iportant responsibilities for living a worthy, ethical life? Do your organization’s ethics resonate(共鸣) with your own values? If not, your career will be likely to be arked by frustration and poor perforance.
“Where Do I Belong?”
Consider your strengths, preferred work style, and values. Based on these qualities, what kind of work environent would you fit it best? Find the perfect fit, and you’ll transfor yourself fro a erely acceptable eployee into a star perforer.
“What Can I Contribute?”
In earlier eras, copanies told businesspeople what their contribution should be. Today, you have choices. To decide how you can best iprove your organization’s perforance, first ask what the situation requires. Based on your strengths, work style, and values, how ight you ake the greatest contribution to your organization’s efforts?
1. The following steps are all the ways to find and iprove your strengths EXCEPT_________.
A. writing down your expectations B. coparing the actual results
C. finding out your advantages D. developing your disadvantages
2. Which of the following coents is NOT true?
A. People should find results they are skilled at generating.
B. Processing inforation by hearing others discuss is the ost effective way of working.
C. People who work in one tea should have siilar ethics.
D. The fit working environent can help the workers work ore efficiently.
3. What can lead to a life of excellence?
A. Self-pity and powers. B. Abition and sarts.
C. Self-awareness and strengths. D. otives and self-knowledge.
4. How ight you ake the greatest contribution to your organization’s efforts?
A. Do what is needed. B. Identify your own strengths.
C. Work in your own way. D. Obey the copanies’ rules.
B
Vincent Van Gogh was not always an artist. In fact, he wanted to be a church inister but was sent to the Belgian ining counity of Borinage in 1879. He discovered that the iners there lived with terrible working conditions and received poverty-level wages. Their failies were not well fed and struggled siply to survive. He felt concerned that the sall salary he received fro the church allowed hi to live a noral life, which, in contrast to the poor, seeed unfair.

A rich faily in the counity offered hi free roo and board. But Van Gogh turned down the offer, stating that it was the final teptation he ust reject if he was to faithfully serve his counity of poor iners. He believed that if he wanted the to trust hi, he ust becoe one of the. And if they were to learn of the love of God through hi, he ust love the enough to share with the.
He was fully aware of a wide chas which can separate words and actions. He knew that people’s lives often speak louder and clearer than their words. aybe it was that sae knowledge that led Francis of Assisi to frequently reind his onks（修士，僧侣）, “Wherever you go, preach. Use words if necessary.”
There are a illion ways to say, “I love you,” without even saying a word!
5. Aong the following stateents of Vincent Van Gogh, which is Not true?
A. He was an artist. B. He wasn’t satisfied with his salary
C. He thought the wages of the inors too lo D. He once worked as a inister.
6. Fro the second paragraph, we know _____________.
A. Van Gogh was crazy B. Van Gogh especially loved to teach children arts
C. Van Gogh was rich D. Van Gogh deeply sypathized with the lower-class
7. Vincent Van Gogh rejected the offer because _____.
A. it was illegal for a inister B. he wanted to be a inor
C. he was devoted to his job D. he was dishonest
8. The sentence “There are a illion ways to say, ‘I love you, without even saying a word.” (the last paragraph) iplies that ______.
A. actions speak louder than words B. silence can also show love
C. there are nuerous ways to express love D. saying “I love you” is useless
9. We can infer fro the passage ____________.
A. our lives always speak louder and clearer than our words
B. the iners there worked under excellent working conditions
C. the inisters lived a uch better and easier life than the iners at the tie
D. Van Gogh hiself offered to work in the Belgian ining counity of Borinage in 1879.
C
What is the nature of the scientific attitude, the attitude of the an or woan who studies and applies physics, biology, cheistry, geology, engineering, edicine or any other science?
We all know that science plays an iportant role in our societies．However, any people believe that our progress depends on two different aspects of science．The first aspect is the application of the achines, products and systes of knowledge that scientists and technologists develop． The second is the application of the special ethods of thought and action that scientists use in their work．
He does not accept stateents which are not based on the ost coplete evidence available．He rejects authority as the only basis for truth．Scientists always check stateents and ake experients carefully and objectively．
Furtherore, he does not readily accept his own idea, since he knows that an is the least reliable of scientific instruents and that a nuber of factors tend to disturb objective investigation．
Lastly, he is full of iagination since he often has to look for relationships in data which are not only coplex but also frequently incoplete．Furtherore, he needs iagination if he wants to guess how processes work and how events take place．
These see to be soe of the ways in which a successful scientist or technologist thinks and acts．
10．any people believe that science helps society to progress through_________
A．knowledge only．B．ore than one aspect．
C．technology only． D．the use of achines．
11 ．Which of the following stateents about a curious scientist is TRUE?
A．He doesn’t find confidence and pleasure in work．
B．He is interested in probles that are explained．
C．He akes efforts to investigate potential connections．
D．He looks for neays of acting．
12．According to the passage, a successful scientist would NOT_______________．
A．easily believe in unchecked stateents．B．easily criticize others' research work．
C．always use his iagination in work．D．always use evidence fro observation．
13．Which word can be used to describe the data that a good scientist uses?
A．coplete B．objective C．coplicated D．accurate
14．What does the passage ainly discuss?
A．Application of technology．B．Progress in ode society．
C．Scientists' ways of thinking and acting．D．How to becoe a successful scientist．
D
Dear alia and Sasha,
I know that you've both had a lot of fun these last two years on the capaign trail, going to picnics and parades and state fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your other and I probably shouldn't have let you have. But I also know that it hasn't always been easy for you and o, and that as excited as you both are about that new puppy, it doesn't ake up for all the tie we've been apart. I know how uch I've issed these past two years, and today I want to tell you a little ore about why I decided to take our faily on this journey.
When I was a young an, I thought life was all about e—about how I'd ake y way in the world, becoe successful, and get the things I want. But then the two of you cae into y world with all your curiosity and ischief and those siles that never fail to fill y heart and light up y day. And suddenly, all y big plans for yself didn't see so iportant anyore. I soon found that the greatest joy in y life was the joy I saw in yours. And I realized that y own life wouldn't count for uch unless I was able to ensure that you had every opportunity for happiness and fulfillent in yours. In the end, girls, that's why I ran for President: because of what I want for you and for every child in this nation.
I want all our children to go to schools worthy of their potential—schools that challenge the, inspire the, and instill in the a sense of wonder about the world around the. I want the to have the chance to go to college—even if their parents aren't rich. And I want the to get good jobs: jobs that pay well and give the benefits like health care, jobs that let the spend tie with their own kids and retire with dignity.
I want us to push the boundaries of discovery so that you'll live to see new technologies and inventions that iprove our lives and ake our planet cleaner and safer. And I want us to push our own huan boundaries to reach beyond the divides of race and region, gender and religion that keep us fro seeing the best in each other.
Soeties we have to send our young en and woen into war and other dangerous situations to protect our country—but when we do, I want to ake sure that it is only for a very good reason, that we try our best to settle our differences with others peacefully, and that we do everything possible to keep our serviceen and woen safe. And I want every child to understand that the blessings these brave Aericans fight for are not free—that with the great privilege of being a citizen of this nation coes great responsibility.
That was the lesson your grandother tried to teach e when I was your age, reading e the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence and telling e about the en and woen who arched for equality because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should ean soething.
She helped e understand that Aerica is great not because it is perfect but because it can always be ade better—and that the unfinished work of perfecting our union falls to each of us. It's a charge we pass on to our children, coing closer with each new generation to what we know Aerica should be.
I hope both of you will take up that work, righting the wrongs that you see and working to give others the chances you've had. Not just because you have an obligation to give soething back to this country that has given our faily so uch—although you do have that obligation. But because you have an obligation to yourself. Because it is only when you hitch your wagon to soething larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential.
These are the things I want for you—to grow up in a world with no liits on your dreas and no achieveents beyond your reach, and to grow into copassionate, coitted woen who will help build that world. And I want every child to have the sae chances to learn and drea and grow and thrive that you girls have. That's why I've taken our faily on this great adventure.
I a so proud of both of you. I love you ore than you can ever kno And I a grateful every day for your patience, poise, grace, and huor as we prepare to start our new life together in the White House.
Love, Dad
15. Who was ost probably the writer?
A. A headaster anaging a priary school.
B. A candidate to run for President of U.S.A.
C. A anager running international business.
D. A coander experiencing a war in a foreign country.
16. What does the underlined word “journey” (Paragraph 1) really ean?
A. a trip to a place of interest
B. a process to bring up their children
C. a capaign to run for the president
D. a visit to their hoetown to eet their grandother
17. What do we know about alia and Sasha’s grandother?
A. She had a perfect way to educate children.
B. She encouraged the writer to join the ary.
C. She bought a lovely puppy for her grandchildren.
D. She often read the Declaration of Independence to her grandchildren.
18. Fro the letter we can learn that the writer was _______________.
A. kind and hesitant B. abitious and considerate
C. selfish but erciful D. successful but stubborn
19. According to the letter, which of the following is NOT true?
A. The writer and his two daughters had been apart for a long tie.
B. The writer hoped that his daughters would live up to his great expectations.
C. The only way to settle the differences in the world is through violence.
D. There still exist soe divides of race and region, gender and religion soewhere in the world.
20. What is the writer’s purpose of writing the letter?
A. Encouraging his daughters to run for President in the future.
B. Explaining the whole international situation to his daughters.
C. Educating his daughters how to defend their country.
D. Apologizing to his daughters for his not being able to stay together with the for such a long tie.
第二节：日常生活中，人们常会有某些奇特的习惯，并对这些习惯感到困惑不解。第21至25题是5位读者遇到的情况。阅读下面的专家解答(A、B、C、D、E和F)， 为每位读者选出适合他们的解答，并在答题纸上将该选项标题涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
21. Why do I twirl y hair with one finger whenever I read?
22. I love to rub satin and carry a satin handkerchief with e everywhere.
23. I count everything：the stairs at work, tiles on the ceiling, ruffles in the curtain.
24. Soeties I feel like I’ falling though I never actually fall---sitting, standing or lying down.
25. Why do I waste energy worrying about stupid things ipossible to happen and plan for the very

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