How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter,rude boss, or an insensitive employee your day?
Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson in the back of a New York City taxi cab. One day I was in a taxi and we headed the airport. We were driving in the lane when suddenly a black car drove out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his , slide sideways,and at the very last moment our car stopped and the other car by just inches!The driver of the other car , the guy who almost caused a big accident, looked around and started at us.
My taxi driver just and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was ,so I said,"Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!” This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call "The Law of the Garbage Truck".
He said, “ Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of , full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on . Don’t take it personally; Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be .”
So I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and it to other people at work, at home, or on the street? It was then that I said, “I don’t want their garbage and I’m not going to spread it anymore.”
Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with . The mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s in your life. See, Roy Baumeister, a psychology researcher from Florida State University,found in his extensive research that you __ bad things more often than good things in your life. You store the bad memories more easily, and you __ them more frequently. So love the people who treat you right. Ignore the ones who don’t. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you _ it!The odds are against you when a Garbage Truck comes your way, but when you follow “The Law of the Garbage Truck”,you take back control of your life. You make room for the good by go of the bad.
Have a Garbage-Free Day!Have a marvelous, garbage-free day!The seeds you plant today the harvest you reap tomorrow.
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解析試題分析:有些人就像是滿載垃圾的垃圾車,他們隨時會把車上所載的抱怨、怨憤、以及沮喪的情緒傾瀉到他們所遇到的人身上,我們?nèi)绾巫霾挪粫芩麄兊挠绊懩?在本文中作者從出租車司機的做法中獲得了很深的感悟。
【小題1】B動詞辨析。A. 使豐富;B.毀掉; C. 勻出; D.獲得。根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood可知此處指別人不好的言行對自己心情的影響,ruin可以指“糟蹋,破壞美好的東西”,故答案選B。
【小題2】D介詞辨析。A. 通過;B. 到;C. 在里面;D.為。固定短語:head for sp“前往某地”,故答案選D。
【小題3】B 形容詞辨析。A. 后者;B. 正確的;C.相反的 ;D. 自由的。從下文可知作者所乘坐的車是正常行駛,故答案選B。
【小題4】A 名詞辨析。A. 車閘;B. 門; C. 窗 ;D. 座位。根據(jù)情理可知當(dāng)出現(xiàn)意外狀況時,司機要緊急剎車,答案選A。
【小題5】C 動詞辨析。A. 敲;B. 超過; C. 錯過,想念;D. 丟失。根據(jù)下文可知作者所乘坐的出租車險些撞上肇事的車,miss“錯過”,選C。
【小題6】D動詞辨析。 A.笑;B. 投 ;C.瀏覽 ; D. 大喊。從上下文可知盡管是年輕小伙子的過錯,險些造成意外,但是他態(tài)度非常不好,這點從出租車司機把他們比喻成“Garbage Truck”可知,yell at sb“向某人大嚷”,選D。
【小題7】B動詞辨析。A. 想知道;B.微 笑; C.打擾;D. 猜。從下文出租車司機的話Just smile, wave, wish them well,可知此處選B。
【小題8】A形容詞辨析。 A. 友好的;B.生氣的 ;C. 疲勞的;D. 失望的。從下文Just smile, wave, wish them well 可知司機遵循自己的原則,沒有向小伙子發(fā)怒,在發(fā)生狀況時,保持微笑、友好的態(tài)度,故答案選A。
【小題9】C名詞辨析。 A.期待;B.行人;C. 垃圾; D. 商品。根據(jù)上句話Many people are like garbage trucks可知司機把一些人比喻成垃圾車,他們會把自己的糟糕的心情、憤慨、抱怨等隨時傾倒到別人身上,由此可知C選項正確。
【小題10】D動詞辨析。 A.轉(zhuǎn)彎;B.推 ;C.抓住 ;D. 堆放。由情理可知當(dāng)垃圾車滿了的時候,就需要傾瀉出去,pile up“堆積,積壓”,故答案選D。
【小題11】C名詞辨析。 A.路;B. 孩子們 ;C. 你們,你 ;D.垃圾箱。根據(jù)語境可知此時司機是對作者說話,所以用第二人稱,答案選C。
【小題12】B形容詞辨析。A. 沮喪; B.更快樂;C.可憐的 ;D. 害怕的。由上下文可知此處指對那些肇事者發(fā)火,發(fā)怒與禮貌微笑著對待那些人相比,心情會更好。
【小題13】A動詞辨析。A. 展開;B.分享;C. 解釋;D.捐贈。根據(jù)語境可知此處指把從別人那里染到的不快情緒傳遞給別人, spread指“傳播,散布”,答案選A。
【小題14】D名詞辨析。 A. 驚訝;B. 快樂;C. 懷疑; D.遺憾。根據(jù)上下文可知人要過的快樂,開心,所以此處應(yīng)該是反義詞,答案選D。
【小題15】B形容詞辨析。A. 有趣; B. 重要; C. 奇怪;D. 難堪的。由情理可知人們的精力要放在人生當(dāng)中重要的事情上,答案選B,其他不符合語境。
【小題16】A動詞辨析。A. 記住;B.忘記;C. 認為重要; D.欣賞。根據(jù)下文You store the bad memories more easily可知人們往往記住的是不好的事情,選A。
【小題17】C動詞辨析。 A. 喜歡 ;B. 交換; C.記起;D. 想象。從上下文可知人們經(jīng)常去回想不好的事情,
【小題18】B動詞辨析。 A. 鼓勵;B. 對待;C. 修理;D. 注意。由語境可知此處指對生活的態(tài)度,take“對待,看待”,而且上文Don’t take it personally,也是重要提示,答案選B。
【小題19】A動詞辨析。 A.讓 ;B. 堅信;C. 制造;D. 夢想。固定短語:let go of“放棄,摒棄,放松,松手”,所以答案選A。
【小題20】D動詞辨析。A.區(qū)分 ;B. 值得;C. 傳送; D. 決定。由情理可知播下的種子決定著明天的收獲,答案選D。
考點:考查故事類短文閱讀。
科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
I moved to Chicago ten years ago. As I was new to the area, I had friends and seldom went out to parties. But a month later, I was invited to a party and there I an elderly couple.
The wife and I for a long time. She told me how she was about her husband who was a heart operation. At that time I was working as a researcher in the same where the husband would be going for his operation, I told her to take down my phone number and me to let me know when he was there.
She phoned a few weeks later as and told me that her husband was admitted to the hospital and waiting. I told her that I would go and check on him every day while I was at . I thought that if it was my dad, I would do the same, so I decided to give them some .
Weeks turned into months and it just became my to see them and keep track of how things were going before, during and after the heart operation. Sometimes I'd bring a for him to read, or some food that we would share . As time went by, it seemed like I became part of the . Even after the husband returned from the hospital, we still often each other on holidays.
Now, ten years later, I my own family. Since our parents don’t close by, this couple has become my son’s “l(fā)ocal” grandparents. My wife and I often feel truly to have this couple as our “l(fā)ocal” parents! Sometimes family comes out of the most unexpected place.
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Bowen was grown-up, and for his birthday that year his father gave him a without any pictures in it!
Bowen’s father found he was not about it, and told him, “Son, this isn’t just any book; it’s a magic (有魔力的) book. But to discover its magic you’ll have to it.”
Well, that was better. Bowen liked to do with magic. He started reading it, he wasn’t very willing to.
The next morning, his asked him, “Have you found the magic ?”
So… there was a key to find! Bowen flicked through (快速翻閱) the book, but there was no of the key.
And then his father him, “You won’t find it like that. You have to read the book. ”
Bowen didn’t have much patience (耐心) , thinking his father just told a .A little later, his little sister, Rainer, asked him the book. After several days, she shouted, “I’ve found the key! ” And she wouldn’t stop all the places she had visited using the magic key.
This made Bowen read the book again. At first it was a ; there wasn’t even one single in the book. But, gradually, Bowen became the adventurous (冒險的) prince’s life. Then, suddenly, he was there.
The book was the key!
It was true that every time he it, he felt going to its valleys and seas, and he lived the adventures of the prince.
From then on, with every new book, Bowen never being attracted by the letters and words inside.
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Every night,I watched for Miss Ellen's lights to go off. She lives next door and we are best friends,____I'm young and she's old. We both like dogs,cats and birds. Miss Ellen has another best friend,her ____,Imogene. Soon as her lights were off,I went into our kitchen and got a(n) ____ to say goodnight to Imogene.
“Imogene?” I kept my voice ____ because Imogene is old and I didn't want to ____ her.
Imogene looked at me ____ I put the egg under her. She seemed to ___ sitting on that egg. I guessed it must ____ her of good old times.
Every morning,I went to Miss Ellen's home to ____ her bread while she ate Imogene's egg.“ I should let you eat the egg too,but it's Imogene's ___ to me,”she said.
When Imogene stopped laying eggs last year,Miss Ellen became ____ and quiet. That was before I started ____ giving her one of Mom's every night.
One morning when I got to Miss Ellen's kitchen,something was ___.Miss Ellen seldom allowed Imogene in the house,but that day she was on the table. Miss Ellen was ____,holding two eggs in her hands.
“Can you ____ it?My Imogene laid this herself!It's not one of your mother's. Oh!Oh!”She ____and put her hand over her mouth.
I looked at her in ____.“You knew?”
“Yes. I'm sorry. To tell the truth,Imogene ____ that you come to visit her every day. She didn't want you to stop. So we decided to keep ____.”
It took a minute for me to ____.Then I figured it out. Both of them wanted me to come. I touched Imogene's head and smiled at Miss Ellen.
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
閱讀下面短文,掌握其大意,然后從各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中,選出最佳選項。
Mrs. White lost her dog. After searching place after place, she placed a “Lost Dog” advertisement in the local newspaper.
The following morning her phone rang and a voice began, “I’m calling about your __ .” Then the caller coughed and cleared her voice a few times. She that she wasn’t feeling well and that, in fact, she hadn’t felt well her husband died three years ago. She went on to tell that her parents had passed away, and her sister was with a deadly illness. Even her friends were not doing well.
After 30 minutes of , sympathizing and even trying offers of help, the dog owner __ the conversation back to the subject. “About the dog,” she said.
“Oh,” the caller , “I don’ t have him. I just thought I’d call to you up.”
Maybe her technique needed improving, but her were right on. And though “cheering up” may not be exactly what we , we certainly need encouragement --- --- at times. The need for sincere is basic among human beings.
Do you need encouragement? There’re those who will support your side. Educator Booker T. Washington observed, “There’re two ways of one’s strength: one is pushing down; __ is pulling up.” There’re people ready to pull you up when others are pushing down. We need those people in our lives - those who use their strength by pulling us up.
I believe these people can be found . I believe that we can all become “ ”, lifting one another from dark pits of discouragement to the light of . And when that happens, the world will never be .
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Half a year before graduation from college, my son began to seek a job. the financial crisis, fewer companies would like to new staff. My son targeted a company that was to employ only one person there were more than 20 people filing their resumes﹙簡歷﹚.
After the interview, there would only be 3 who could enter the final round, which would later one person to be employed. Everything seemed to go quite and my son passed the first round and entered the final round in a week.
On the day of the final interview, my son and the two candidates(候選人)arrived at the interview place on time, the test. The interview was unbelievably . The interviewer only said to them, “All of you are very super. Please go home and wait for our . We will tell you the in 3 days. Good luck to all of you” On the morning of the third day, my son received a text from the company shortly after breakfast that he was not employed. We all felt very .
In nightfall that day, my son suddenly told me on phone, “Dad, I have been employed!” Greatly surprised, I could not wait to ask him, “What’s the whole ?” My son told me that he received another text saying that he was employed. Actually the first text sent to my son was also of the test in the interview. Three men received the same text this morning and only my son’s was “Thank you” while the others said “Goodbye”.
Only then did I know that my son’s hope in that way. That is, when you feel disappointed, do not to say “Thank you” to the one who disappoints you. Saying “Thank you” shows respect for others’ work and shows your great . Therefore, while under the same condition, you will get the upper hand in terms of compared with others!
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a person, he had been to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a collector. Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay's, or too often, on the McKays .
“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our ,” said Laurence. She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. “We'd be there happily reading our newspapers, when so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the of fish!”
And on Saturday evening it was just too . “It was James's birthday,” explained Laurence, “and I'd made him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn't get to blow them out.” , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet . Rarely had Laurence seen McKay move so fast. “I couldn't him. He was up there in a flash. It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”
Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his from now on. And what of James McKay? he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”. “ the most exciting birthday !” said the cheerful old man. “The best since my adolescence I'd say!”
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
When it is Tom’s turn for a cut, Mr. Smith places a wooden board covered with a piece of red leather across the arms of the chair, so that the barber doesn’t have to bend to cut the boy’s hair.
“Hey, young man, you’re , you won’t need this soon, you’ll be able to sit in the chair.” the barber says.
“Wow,” says Tom, turning round to look at his dad. “Dad, Mr. Smith said I could be sitting in the chair soon, not just on the !”
“So I hear,” his father replies. “I expect Mr. Smith will start me more for your hair then.”
In the Tom sees a little head sticking out of a long nylon cape. Occasionally he glances at the barber as he works. He smells a(n) of smelly sweat and aftershave as the barber moves around him, combing and cutting.
Tom feels like he is in another world, except for the sound of the barber’s shoes rubbing on the plastic carpet and the of his scissors. In the from the window he could see through the window, a few small clouds moved slowly through the frame, moving to the of the scissors’ click.
Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair softly as snow and he sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special left leaning against the wall in the corner.
When Mr. Smith has , Tom hops down from the seat. , he sees his own thick, hair mixed among the browns, greys and blacks of the men who have sat in the chair before him. For a moment he wants to reach down and the broken blonde hair, to them from the others, but he does not have time.
They reach the pavement outside the shop. “I tell you what, boy, let’s get some fish and chips to take home, your mum from cooking tea,” says Tom’s dad.
Tom is excited and catches his dad’s hand. He is surprised to find, warming in his father’s palm, a handful of his own .
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage(孤兒院)and taught us how to do woodworking projects. I remember my first project—a small table. I was so of it that I looked upon it I had created a wonder. It was absolutely beautiful and it had taken me six weeks to it. I could wait to give it to Mother Winters as a gift. She was the head mistress of our orphanage, who was always with us.
As the tables were not from the clear coating, the man told us to wait a few days before taking them to our dormitories. I was just so excited and happy that I couldn’t wait. I dashed out like a flash carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.
When I reached the dormitory I placed the little table beside my bed. I was it when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table. Running her hand it, she noticed it was still wet.
“Were you to bring this home?” she asked. “No, ma’am,” I with my head down.
She ordered me to throw the table out and so I did. After she left, I immediately opened the door to get it back. There was stuck all over. I brushed and cried, but it would not come off. I hid the table in my closet and never it. A year later while cleaning up, I gave the table to Mother Henderson, my houseparent (宿管員), thinking that she would it away.
Thirty years later at a reunion, I that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. We talked cheerfully for long. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her to get something important. I followed her into a dark corner. She picked something up. she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table. Mother Henderson kept the little table that I had given up for lost so long ago.
Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of to Mother Henderson, who kept it for a young orphan who tried very hard to .
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