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A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the 1 that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is 2 because he does not understand how to make the deepest of his mental faculties (天赋). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of 3 anything new because of their 4 .
A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real 5 , because he feels that it should be useless. He won’t go at a job with the confidence (自信) necessary for 6 and he won’t try his best, even though he may 7 he is doing so. He is 8 likely to fail, and the failure will increase his belief in his incompetence (能力).
Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had a (an) 9 like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor 10 in maths. His teacher told his 11 he had no ability in maths in order that they would not expect too much of him. In this way, they too 12 the idea. He accepted 13 mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless to 14 , and was very poor at maths, 15 as they expected.
One day he worked on a problem which 16 of the other students had been able to solve. Adler succeeded in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now 17 with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at 18 . He not only proved that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learned 19 in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may 20 himself as well as others by his ability.
1. A. belief B. way C. fact D. condition ( )
2. A. clever B. shy C. useless D stupid ( )
3. A. teaching B. learning C. accepting D. using ( )
4. A. ability B. age C. brain D. knowledge ( )
5. A. decision B. success C. effort D. trouble ( )
6. A. work B. study C. improvement D. success ( )
7. A. forget B. think C. guess D. understand ( )
8. A. truly B. really C. however D. therefore ( )
9. A. experience B. example C. thought D. story ( )
10. A. state B. mind C. start D. ending ( )
11. A. classmates B. friends C. neighbors D. parents ( )
12. A. developed B. organized C. discovered D. found ( )
13. A. his B her C. its D. their ( )
14. A. manage B. succeed C. try D. act ( )
15. A. only B. almost C. just D. then ( )
16. A. none B. all C. many D. most ( )
17. A. lived B. worked C. played D. graduated ( )
18. A. lessons B. medicine C. subjects D. maths ( )
19. A. early B. badly C. late D. simply ( )
20. A. encourage B. love C. astonish D. disappoint ( )
B
It’s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents (养父母) than with the parents that nature dealt them. That’s especially 1 of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated 2 the law blindly favors biological parents. It’s also true of children who 3 for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can’t or won’t care for them but 4 to give up custody (监护) rights.
Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays 5 neither description, but her recent court victory could 6 children who do. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who 7 her and her biological parents, with whom she has never 8 . A Florida judge decided that the teenager can 9 with the only father she’s ever known and that her biological parents have “no legal right” on her.
Shortly after 10 in December 1978 , Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the 11 parent. Kimberly’s biological parents received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests 12 that the child wasn’t their own daughter, but Kim was, thus leading to a custody 13 with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families 14 that Mr. Mays would continue to have custody with the biological parents getting 15 rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being 16 .
The decision to 17 Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made 18 that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉) on her own behalf. Thus he made clear that she was more than just a 19 possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels (取消) all the 20 of children.
1. A. terrible B. true C. sad D. natural ( )
2. A. but B. when C. because D. if ( )
3. A. suffer B. work C. settle D. gather ( )
4. A. have B. stick C. want D. refuse ( )
5. A. fits B. knows C. likes D. gives ( )
6. A. support B. help C. interest D. surprise ( )
7. A. missed B. protected C. praised D. raised ( )
8. A. talked B. dealt C. lived D. cared ( )
9. A. remain B. leave C. share D. chat ( )
10. A. birth B. school C. operation D. judgment ( )
11. A. own B. wrong C. kind D. biological ( )
12. A. explained B. decided C. showed D. examined ( )
13. A. agreement B. decision C. battle D. right ( )
14. A. quarreled B. thought C. prepared D. agreed ( )
15. A. visiting B. equal C. speaking D. political ( )
16. A. wounded B. hidden C. forbidden D. harmed ( )
17. A. give B. leave C. meet D. keep ( )
18. A. free B. happy C. clear D. sure ( )
19. A. public B. great C. proper D. personal ( )
20. A. joys B. rights C. opinions D. ideas ( )
C
The western world has always been divided into two types of people --- the cool and the uncool. It is a division that 1 in school. The cool kids are good at 2 . They are 3 with opposite sex. They are good-looking and people want to 4 their style. They can do their homework but they don’t make a big effort. That would 5 be cool.
The uncool kids are in the other corner of the playground. They are very bright, but they don’t have great 6 skills and they are 7 at sports. When they are not programming computers or doing calculus (微积分) in their heads, they are reading comic books and watching shows like the “X Files”. They are 8 as the geeks.
Here’s the news. The geeks are 9 . Make friends with them now or they will put virus in your computer and 10 your maths homework to ruin. Greeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examination, and they might not be too popular at university, but 11 good degrees.
The most important 12 of the 21st century, computer and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks. Greek heroes like Bill Gates 13 others to follow their example. Being a geek is a way of earning good money. And the creation of the Internet gave them a 14 of their own to work and play in, making them a global 15 . Besides, the effort of the geeks 16 popular culture has started a new trend (趋势). It is now cool to be 17 . Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture, in which what you know is more important than 18 you look like.
But there are also 19 . Geeks were often but bullied or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your boos. Perhaps it is time for 20 .
1. A. continues B. makes C. remains D. starts ( )
2. A. computers B. studies C. sports D. maths ( )
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