Rich or poor, we all have problems: that unfaithful mate, that irritating (惱人的) colleague, that persistent disease, the investment that is turning into a huge loss. How do we remain calm, positive and even elegant in the face of all these difficulties of life?

    That following suggestions may help.

    It comes with the pay. I have a friend who used to complain about her dead-end job and unreasonable boss. Sound familiar? One day I told her, “Look at it this way. You are getting paid for the annoyance as well as the work. It comes with the pay.” This has become my favorite saying for work-related frustrations. “Take every day as a bonus.” When we learn to treasure every moment of what we have, we begin to see life in a whole new perspective.

    It’s all in the mind. Sure, the psychologists tell us it is important we work at resolving problems. But they also say if you try to resolve a problem that would not go away, it would only compound (使更復(fù)雜) the frustration. If you tell yourself there isn’t a problem, there won’t be one. It’s all in the mind.

    Stop thinking about your own problem ---help others instead. A lady who is combating a life-threatening disease revealed she coped with her illness by making herself useful, by offering help to others in a similar situation. She has spoken to at least five other women with breast cancer. She says that the sharing has helped her to find fresh meaning in her own life.

    Never give up on your dream. Why do we give in and give up when meet difficulties? Is it because we have no confidence in our cause and no commitment (致力) for what we pursue? It was said that Albert Einstein’s last request on his death bed was to be given his equations and his unfinished statement declining the presidency of Israel. Einstein first picked up his equations and lamented to his son, “If only I had more mathematics!” What a great persistent spirit!

    One strong-hearted lady was the late head of the tragic Kennedy family, Rose Kennedy. She said this on nationwide television one week after losing yet another son to an assassin’s bullet---Boddy Kennedy: “And we go on our way with no regrets not looking backwards to the past, but we shall carry on with courage.”

    Not the end of the world. Do you know something else? I’ve learned that care as you might, love as you might, some people just don’t care back. And it’s not the end of the world. After all, it’s not the event that makes a person, is it? It’s what we do about that happens to us.

 

69. Which of the following may serve as an appropriate title for this passage?

  A. How to Face Problems                         B How to Resolve Problems

  C. How to Hold on to Your Dream             D. How to Remain Cheerful

70. “Take every day as a bonus” (in Paragraph 5) means _____.

  A. we should see life from a new perspective    

  B. we should treasure every day in our life.、

  C. we should regard every day as the last day    

  D. we should enjoy ourselves every day

71. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned by the author?

  A. Helping others will make it easier for us to solve our own difficulties.

  B. We can learn to see life from a fresh light.

  C. We should have confidence in our cause so that we won’t give in easily.

  D. We should not be overwhelmed by problems in our life.

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A.

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B.

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Hobby is a kind of activity only for old people.

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Whether rich or poor, we all have problems: that unfaithful mate, that annoying colleague, that persistent(持久的) disease, and the investment that is turning into a huge loss.
How can we remain calm, positive and even elegant in the face of all these difficulties of
life?
The following suggestions may help.
It comes with the pay. I have a friend who used to complain about her dead-end job and
unreasonable boss. Sounds familiar? One day I told her, "Look at it this way. You are getting
paid for the annoyance as well as the work. It comes with the pay. "
This has become my favorite saying for work-related frustrations. "Take every day as a bo-
nus. " When we learn to treasure every moment of what we have, we begin to see life in a whole
new attitude.
It's all in the mind. Sure, the psychologists tell us it is important that we work at resol-
ving problems. But they also say if you try to resolve a problem that would not go away, it would
only compound(使更復(fù)雜) the frustration.
If you tell yourself there isn' t a problem, there won' t be one. It is all in the mind.
Stop thinking about your own problem-help others instead. A lady who is struggling a
life-threatening disease showed she coped with her illness by making herself useful, by offering
help to others in a similar situation.
She has spoken to at least five other women with breast cancer. She says that the sharing
has helped her to find fresh meaning in her own life.
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ls it because we have no confidenee in our cause and no commitment (承擔義務(wù))for what we
pursue?
One strong-hearted lady was the late head of the tragic Kennedy family, Rose Kennedy.
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A.There were many friends but
B.There was nobody to love her so
C.There was nothing to do
D.Seeing the butterfly was caught
【小題2】Noticing the butterfly was caught by the thorn, the orphan girl ______.
A.helped the butterfly escaped from the thorn
B.felt sorrow,but she didn’t go up to help it
C.fell down on it too
D.failed to help it release from the thorn
【小題3】The only thing that the little girl wanted was________.
A.to be richB.to have her own parents
C.to have a lot of friendsD.happiness
【小題4】The neighbors all gathered around the old happy woman when she was dying, because ______.
A.they loved this woman deeply and they didn’t wanted her to die
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C.they wanted to know the secret of her lifetime happiness
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There is a wonderful story about a young girl who had no family and no one to love her.

One day, feeling very sad and lonely, she was walking through a grassland when she noticed a small butterfly caught in a thorn(荊棘)bush. The young girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

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The fairy leaned toward her and whispered in her ear. Then the fairy disappeared.

As the little girl grew up, there was no one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her secret of happiness. She would only smile and answer, “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl.”

When she was very old and on her deathbed, the neighbors all gathered around her, that her unbelievable secret of happiness would die with her. “Tell us, please,” they begged, “Tell us what the good fairy said.” The lovely old woman simply smiled and said, “She told me that everyone, no matter how secure they seemed, no matter how old or young, how rich or poor, had need of me.”

1. ______ the girl felt sad and lonely.

A.There were many friends but

B.There was nobody to love her so

C.There was nothing to do

D.Seeing the butterfly was caught

2. Noticing the butterfly was caught by the thorn, the orphan girl ______.

A.helped the butterfly escaped from the thorn

B.felt sorrow, but she didn ‘t go up to help it

C.fell down on it too

D.failed to help it release from the thorn

3. The only thing that the little girl wanted was________.

A.to be rich

B.to have her own parents

C.to have a lot of friends

D.happiness

4. The neighbors all gathered around the old happy woman when she was dying, because ______.

A.they loved this woman deeply and they didn‘t wanted her to die

B.the woman had lots of money to be shared as soon as she died

C.they wanted to know the secret of her lifetime happiness

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