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【題目】The Winner’s Guide to Success

How do successful people think? What helps them to make success? To find out the answers, an American scholar recently visited some of the most successful people in America. 【1】

Be responsible for yourself

Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead. 【2】 You’re saying, “You have more control over my life than I do.”

Live life “on purpose”

Almost all successful people live life “on purpose”— they are doing what they believe they should and want to do. When you live your life on purpose, you’ll try your best to do your job or study as well as you can. You love what you do and you can find pleasure in what you do.

Write a plan

It is very difficult trying to get what you want without a good plan. 【3】 A good plan is like a map to you. Without this “map”, you may waste your time, money and also your energy; while with the “map” you’ll enjoy the “trip” and get what you want in the shortest possible time.

Be willing to pay the price

Nothing great is easy to get. So you must be ready to work hard — even harder than you have ever done. If you are not willing to pay the price, you won’t get anything valuable.

Never give up

【4】 When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope.

【5】

Once an American writer was writing a novel. He could not have a good ending for his book until one night when he had a very good idea. He was so excited that he made a phone call to one of his best friends. “I’ve got a perfect idea,” he said, “I’ll put it down later and show it to you.” But he never did, because he died that night. His book was left without a perfect ending. So remember, do what you can right away. Never delay at all.

A. It is just like trying to drive through strange roads to a city far away.

B. It seems to us that everyone knows this. But it is easier said than done.

C. Some people achieve success much later in life because they fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work.

D. In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success, you’re giving away your own power.

E. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.

F. Don’t delay

G. Here are some keys to success that they give.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】D

【3】A

【4】B

【5】F

【解析】

試題分析:人人都想成功，那么成功的人在想什么呢？讀讀這篇文章，你將知道答案。

【1】G考查對(duì)上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。通過下文的各個(gè)小標(biāo)題可知此處是成功人士給出的答案，故選擇G，意為：下面就是他們所給的成功的關(guān)鍵。

【2】D考查對(duì)上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。通過小標(biāo)題可知，這一段講的是對(duì)自己負(fù)責(zé)，以及上一句說有時(shí)候你會(huì)責(zé)備他人讓你無法向前，所以選擇D，意為：事實(shí)上，如果你說有人使你不能成功，那么你就是在讓出自己的權(quán)利。

【3】A考查對(duì)上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。根據(jù)小標(biāo)題可知，這一段講的是制定計(jì)劃，再根據(jù)下文的A good plan is like a map to you，可知計(jì)劃對(duì)你而言就是地圖，故選擇A，意為就像在一個(gè)遙遠(yuǎn)的城市中的陌生的路上開車一樣。

【4】B考查對(duì)上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。通過小標(biāo)題可知，這一段講的是不要放棄。再聯(lián)系下文可知，下文是舉例告訴你，在做事情時(shí)，要不斷提醒自己放棄比失敗更糟糕。故選擇B，意為：每個(gè)人都知道，但是說起來容易做起來難。

【5】F考查對(duì)上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。此題是總結(jié)本段內(nèi)容，得出小標(biāo)題。根據(jù)下文所舉例子可知，這位作家由于當(dāng)時(shí)沒有記下結(jié)尾而導(dǎo)致他的書沒有完美的結(jié)尾，故得出結(jié)論，做事不要耽擱。所以選擇F。