When it comes to success in business and success in life, there are few qualities as important as confidence. 
People naturally have different levels of confidence. Some have a higher level of confidence than others do, but even those whose confidence is lacking can learn to build their level of confidence and reach their most important goals. Increasing self confidence is one of the most common reasons people give for seeking the help of psychologists and other professionals.
One of the many places where a greater level of confidence is useful is in the workplace. We all know how difficult it can be, for instance, to ask the boss for a raise. This process can be extremely difficult for those who lack confidence in their own abilities. After all, if you are unsure about your own abilities, how will you ever convince your boss that you deserve more money for the work you do?
Even if you are not asking for that big raise, having plenty of confidence in your abilities is important to success. If you are certain of your abilities, chances are that those around you, whether they are your coworkers, your colleagues or your superiors, will see that confidence, and that will help to assure them that you are the best at what you do.
Being thought of as the person to go to, and being seen as an expert in your chosen field, is naturally very important to success on the job. If you can make yourself the person people go to for guidance and advice, you will help to protect yourself from the ever present danger of downsizing. After all, if you are a recognized expert at the office, you will be regarded as an indispensable member of the team.
Having a high level of confidence, after all, does not mean overlooking the places where you could improve. Knowing what you do well and where you need help will help you enjoy increased success and confidence.
小題1:What is the passage mainly about?
A．The influence of confidence on one’s life.
B．The importance of confidence to success.
C．The difference of people’s confidence.
D．The judgment on one’s confidence.
小題2:Psychologists and other professionals can offer help to those _____.
A．who think their goals are hard to reach
B．who expect to give guidance to others
C．who want to ask the boss for a raise
D．who dream to be recognized experts
小題3:What does the underlined word “indispensable” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．importantB．a(chǎn)ttractiveC．outspokenD．energetic
小題4:What message does the author want to express in the last paragraph?
A．To overlook one’s disadvantages.
B．To make full use of one’s advantages.
C．To have great confidence in one’s abilities.
D．To make objective evaluations of one’s abilities.

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:D

試題分析：
小題1:主旨題：從文章第一段的句子;When it comes to success in business and success in life, there are few qualities as important as confidence. 可知這篇文章講的是自信對成功的重要性。選
B
小題2:細節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：Increasing self confidence is one of the most common reasons people give for seeking the help of psychologists and other professionals.可知心理學家和專家可以給缺乏自信的人建議。選A
小題3:猜詞題：從前面的句子：if you are a recognized expert at the office,可知如果你被認為是辦公室的專家，你就會被認為是團隊里面重要的人。Indispensable和important意思相近，選A
小題4:推理題：從最后一段的句子：Knowing what you do well and where you need help will help you enjoy increased success and confidence.可知我們要對自己的自信做出客觀的評價。選D
點評：本文要求考生讀懂文章中的每個句子的意思還要推理它們之間的關系，結(jié)合自己的生活常識和經(jīng)驗，再通過邏輯推理和判斷，理解文章的言外之意，從而揭示文章的深層涵義。任何一篇文章都有其特定的寫作目的，讀者應當知道如何去做或按照某種方式傳遞思考問題。推理判斷題的答案不可能在文章中直接找到，因此推理時我們務必要忠于原文，在文章中尋找并確定可推論的依據(jù)，即：已知部分－推論的前提，從中推測出未知部分－推理的結(jié)論，切忌妄加評論，把自己的觀點當成作者的觀點。
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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
　　Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.
小題1:________ leads to people's deeper understanding of health.
A．Common knowledge
B．Progress in scientific research
C．Better conditions of living
D．Quality of life
小題2:The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because _________.
A．people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer
B．people pay more attention to their physical health, not their mental health
C．people have realized the importance of mental well-being
D．people are inspired by medical advances
小題3:We can infer from the passage __________.
A．nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food
B．the overall quality of people's lives improved greatly in the 20th century
C．those who never fall ill are the truly healthy people
D．those who were born before 1900 could not have lived until now
小題4:This passage is mainly about __________.
A．different understandings of the term "health"
B．improving the quality of life
C．the importance of quality living
D．people's expectations of a long and healthy life

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