Why is setting goals important? Because goals can help you do, be, and experience everything you want in life. Instead of just letting life happen to you, goals allow you to make your life happen.
Successful people imagine how their life should be and set lots of goals. By setting goals you are taking control of your life. It’s like having a map to show you where you want to go. Think of it this way. There are two drivers. One has a destination in mind (her goal) which can be found on a map. She can drive straight there without any wasted time or wrong turns. The other driver has no goal or destination or map. She starts off at the same time from the same place as the first driver, but she drives aimlessly around, never getting anywhere, just using up gas. Which driver do you want to be?
Winners in life set foals and follow through on them. They decide what they want in life and then get there by making plans and setting goals. Unsuccessful people just let life happen by accident. Goals aren’t difficult to set---and they aren’t difficult to reach. It’s up to you to find out what your goals really are. You are the one who must decide what to achieve and in what direction to aim your life.
Research tells us that when we write a goal down we are more likely to achieve it. Written goals can be reviewed regularly, and have more power. Like a contract with yourself, they are harder to neglect or forget. Also when you write your goals in a particular way, you are able to make yourself continuously aware of situations that will bring you nearer to your goals.
小題1:.
The article is written to throw light on ______.
A．the importance of setting goalsB．the way of setting goals
C．the winners of competitionsD．the goals in life
小題2:.
The example of two drivers is adopted in order to ______.
A．compare the difference of goalsB．explain the traffic rules
C．help readers understand the importance of goalsD．tell the function of a map
小題3:.
The main idea of the fourth paragraph is that ______.
A．it’s better to write a goal downB．written goals can’t be forgotten easily
C．try to make yourself aware of your goalsD．written goals can be reviewed regularly

小題1:. A           
小題1:.C
小題1:.A
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Scott and his companions were terribly disappointed. When they got to the South Pole, they found the Norwegianshad  16  them in the race to be the first ever to reach it. After  17   the British flag at the Pole, they took a photograph of themselves  18  they started the 950-mile journey back.
The journey was unexpectedly  19   and the joy and excitement about the Pole had gone out of them. The sun hardly  20 . The snow storms always made it impossible to sight the stones they had  21    to mark their way home. To make things  22   , Evans, whom they had all thought of  23  the strongest of the five, fell badly into a deep hole in the ice. Having  24   along for several days, he suddenly fell down and died.
The four who were  25   pushed on at the best speed they could  26  . Captain Oates had been suffering for some time from his  27  feet; at night his feet swelled（腫脹） so large that he could  28    put his boots on the next morning, and he walked bravely although he was in great  29   . He knew his slowness was making it less likely that 30     could save themselves. He asked them to leave him behind in his sleeping-bag, but they refused, and helped him  31   a few more miles, until it was time to put up the  32   for another night.
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A．hitB．foughtC．wonD．beaten
小題2:
A．growingB．puttingC．plantingD．laying
小題3:
A．a(chǎn)fterB．untilC．whileD．before
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A．roseB．setC．a(chǎn)ppearedD．disappeared
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Who in the world would love us so deeply and relentlessly without asking for any   54  ? Only our   55  !
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I   33  through the bars at my jailer. He did not make eye contact with me. I called out to him, “Have you got a light?” He looked at me,   34  and came over to light my cigarette. As he came close and   35  the match, his eyes accidentally locked with mine. At that moment, I   36 . I don't know why I did that. Perhaps it was   37 , perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very   38  not to smile. In any case, I smiled. In that instant, it was as though a   39  jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn't want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and   40  a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed   41 , looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.
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My life was saved by a smile. Yes, the smile ― the unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people.
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A．caught B．brokenC．met D．escaped
小題2:.
A．barely B．consequentlyC．continuouslyD．constantly
小題3:.. 
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A．trembled B．ignoredC．shrugged D．hesitated
小題5:.. 
A．struck B．seized C．counted D．found
小題6:. 
A．sobbed B．smelled C．sighed D．smiled
小題7:.
A．defence B．delight C．nervousnessD．despair
小題8:.. 
A．hardB．easy C．simple D．clear
小題9:.. 
A．humor B．spark C．hatred D．sense
小題10:.. 
A．spread B．generated C．broughtD．Forced
小題11:. 
A．near B．distant C．a(chǎn)way D．up
小題12:. 
A．a(chǎn)fraidB．sure C．a(chǎn)ware D．a(chǎn)wake
小題13:.
A．enemies B．pets C．friends D．kids
小題14:.. 
A．photos B．drawings C．films D．outlines
小題15:. 
A．fixed B．blocked C．filled D．packed
小題16:. 
A．hoped B．feared C．wondered D．a(chǎn)nnoyed
小題17:. 
A．Anger B．Sadness C．Sympathy D．Tears
小題18:. 
A．AccidentallyB．Instantly C．SuddenlyD．Occasionally
小題19:. 
A．grasped B．unlocked C．shut D．fastened
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Tired, feeling the months of ___23___ in vain, I went up to my study to make some notes. I was looking for a pencil in the back of my desk drawer ___24___ I turned up one of Dad’s old business cards that he was proud of: Andrea Cuomo Italian-American Groceries --- Fine Imported Products. Then I thought about how he ___25___ with difficult situations. A lot of pictures ___26___ into my mind, but one scene came sharply into ___27___.
We had just moved to Holliswood, New York. We had our own house for the first time; it had some land around it, even trees. One, ___28___, was a great blue spruce (云杉) that must have been 40 feet tall.
Less than a week after we moved in, there was a terrible storm. We came home from the store that night to find the spruce pulled almost ___29___ from the ground and thrown onto the street. When my brother Frankie and I saw the spruce, our hearts ___30___. But not Dad’s.
The rain was falling. Then he ___31___ , “Ok, we’re going to push him up!” “ What are you talking about, Dad? The ___32___ are out of the ground!” “ Shut up, we’re going to push him up, he’s going to grow again.” We couldn’t say ___33___ to him. So we ___34___ him into the house and got what rope ___35___ was and tied it around the top of the tree that lay on the street, and then he stood up by the house, ___36___ me pulling on the rope, and Frankie in the street in the rain, ___37___ to push up the great blue spruce. In no ___38___ at all, we had him standing up straight again! Dad ___39___ the stakes (樁) in the ground, tied the rope from the trunk to the stakes, and said, “ Don’t worry. He’s going to grow again…”
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A．ideasB．lessonsC．talksD．conversations
小題2:.
A．buryB．a(chǎn)ttemptC．trapD．quit
小題3:.
A．struggleB．operationC．performanceD．a(chǎn)pplication
小題4:.
A．a(chǎn)sB．beforeC．whileD．when
小題5:.
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A．didB．occupiedC．settledD．dealt
小題6:.
A．a(chǎn)ppearedB．bumpedC．leaptD．burst
小題7:.
A．spotB．viewC．sceneD．site
小題8:.
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A．in reliefB．in needC．in particularD．in all
小題9:.
A．a(chǎn)bsolutelyB．a(chǎn)ccidentallyC．totallyD．a(chǎn)utomatically
小題10:.
A．sufferedB．carvedC．sankD．infected
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A．a(chǎn)nnouncedB．challengedC．barkedD．distributed
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A．trunksB．rootsC．branchesD．leaves
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A．a(chǎn)nythingB．noC．nothingD．something
小題14:.
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A．a(chǎn)ccompanied B．hikedC．joinedD．followed
小題15:.
A．itB．thatC．thereD．this
小題16:.
A．a(chǎn)longB．viaC．byD．with
小題17:.
A．to helpB．helpedC．helpingD．help
小題18:.
.
A．problemB．timeC．wayD．means
小題19:.
A．droveB．removed C．delivered D．dragged
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A Battery’s Worst Nightmare(噩夢)
Portable electronics that can be carried about easily are only as good as their batteries and, let’s face it, batteries aren’t very good, especially when compared with, say, petrol, which packs 100 times a battery’s energy into an equal space. That’s why a large group of mechanical engineers (centered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but with partners at other universities and companies) are hard at work in an effort to replace batteries with a tiny engine that runs on fuel. Imagine a battery-free life!When the fuel runs out in your laptop or mobile phone, you just fill up and go.
The engine, about the size of a ten-cent coin, starts with a combustion chamber (燃燒室) that burns hydrogen (氫). Its tiny parts are etched onto silicon wafers (硅片) in the same manner that computer parts are imprinted onto integrated circuits (集成電路). The first engine is made up of five wafers. And since these wafers could be produced in much the same way as computer chips, they could probably be produced quite cheaply.
But the devil in all this nice detail is efficiency(效率). Tiny engine parts don’t always behave like their scaled-up parts of the first engine. Something between the parts can slow down the work, according to Columbia University professor Luc Frechette, one of the engine’s designers. Extreme heat from the combustion chamber is also a problem, often leaking to other parts of the engine.
The scientists’ goal is to create an engine that will operate 10 times better than batteries do. Frechette says that a complete system, with all parts in place and working, will be set up in the next couple of years, but commercial models aren’t available until at least the end of the next ten years. 
小題1:.
. According to the passage, the title suggests that ________.
A．batteries should be greatly improvedB．petrol will be used instead of batteries
C．the time of batteries will be gone foreverD．pollution caused by batteries must be prevented
小題2:.
What’s the meaning of the underlined word “devil” (In Paragraph 3)?
A．Problem.　B．Advantage.　C．Invention.　D．Technique.
小題3:.
What can we infer from the passage?
A．The new invention doesn’t need any fuel.
B．The new engine has been produced in quantity.
C．The new invention is much cheaper than the battery.
D．The new engine needs to be improved before it’s on sale.
小題4:.
. What is the main purpose of this passage?
A．To introduce a new invention to readers.B．To persuade readers not to use batteries.
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Goldie’s Secret
She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. “We’re moving house.” “No space for her any more with the baby coming.” “We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present.” People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.
I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner’s. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.
That’s why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn’t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.
By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. “We didn’t know what had happened to her,” said the woman at the door. “I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared.” “She must have tried to come back to them and got lost,” added a boy from behind her.
I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I’ve got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I’ve learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.
小題1:.
How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?
A．Shocked.B．Annoyed.C．Sympathetic.D．Upset.
小題2:.
. In her first few days at the author’s house, Goldie      .
A．sat by the fireB．was angry
C．a(chǎn)te a littleD．felt worried
小題3:.
Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ­    .
A．found her way to her old homeB．heard familiar barkings
C．wanted to leave the authorD．saw her puppies
小題4:.
The passage is organized in order of ­    .
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When he was driving home one evening on a country road，he saw an old lady，stranded(拋錨的)on the side of the road．He stopped in front of her car and got out．Even with the smile on his face，she was worried．He looked poor and hungry．He knew how she felt．He said，“I am here to help you，madam．Why
don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Joe．”
She had a flat tire．Joe crawled under the car，changed the tire．But he got dirty and his hands hurt．She could not thank him enough and asked him how much she owed him．He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back，the next time she saw someone who needed help，she could give that person the  assistance they needed，and Joe added，“And think of me．”
She drove off．A few miles down the road the lady saw a small restaurant．She went in．The waitress had a sweet smile，and was nearly eight months pregnant(懷孕的)．The old lady wondered how someone like her who seemed poor could be so kind to a stranger．Then she remembered Joe．After the lady finished her meal，the waitress went to get her change from a hundred—dollar bill．But she stepped right out the door．
When the waitress came back，she noticed something written on a napkin，“I am helping you because someone once helped me．If you really want to pay me back，here’s what you do---Do not let the chain of love end with you．”
That night when she got home，she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written．She and her husband needed money with the baby due(預期的)next month．She knew how worried her husband was，and as he lay sleeping next to her，she whispered，“Everything’s going to be all right．I love you，Joe．”
小題1:.．When Joe stopped to help the lady，she          
A．became excitedB．was afraid to be hurt
C．refused his offerD．thanked him
小題2:.．At the restaurant, the lady          
A．received good serviceB．had an expensive meal
C．told the waitress Joe’s storyD．met another poor guest
小題3:.．Why did the lady leave the restaurant without getting her change?
A．She forgot it．B．She wanted to help Joe
C．She wanted to tip the waitress．
D．She wanted to give the waitress some help
小題4:.．Which of the following statements is true?
A．Joe’s boss fired him．B．Joe worked as a driver．
C．Joe’s wife was a waitress．D．Joe had an unhappy marriage．

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Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own．My mom was one of those people．
My father died when I was nine months old，making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen．While I was growing up，we lived a very hard life．We had little money，but my mom gave me a lot of love．Each night，she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life，“Kemmons，you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it．”
At fourteen，I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day，my mother spoke to me in her gentle，loving voice，telling me that no matter what those doctors said. I could walk again if I wanted it badly enough．She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her．A year later，I returned to school--walking on my own．
When the Great Depression(大蕭條)hit，my mom lost her job．Then I left school to support the both of us．At that moment，I was determined never to be poor again．
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business Success．But the real turning point occurred on a vocation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951．I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra$2 for each child．That was too expensive for the average American family．I told my wife that I was going to open a motel(汽車旅館)for families that would never charge extra for children．There were plenty of doubters at that time．
Not surprisingly，mom was one of my strongest supporters．She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style．As in any business，we experienced a lot of challenges．But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul，I never doubted we could succeed．Fifteen years later，we had the largest hotel system in the world—Holiday Inn. In 1979，my company had 1759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year．
You may not have started out life in the best situations．But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself，nothing can stop you．
小題1:What Kemmons' mom often told him during his childhood was         ．
A．caringB．movingC．encouragingD．interesting
小題2:What caused Kemmons to start a motel by himself?
A．His terrible experience in the hotel．
B．His previous business success of various levels．
C．His mom’s support．
D．His wife’s suggestion．
小題3:．Which of the following best describes Kemmoms’ mother?   、
A．Modest，helpful，and hard-working．
B．Loving，supportive，and strong-willed．
C．Careful，helpful，and beautiful．
D．Strict，sensitive and supportive．
小題4:Which of the following led to Kemmons’ success according to the passage?
A．Self-confidence，hard work，clear goals and a poor family．
B．Mom's encouragement，clear goals，self-confidence，and hard work．
C．Clear goals，mom’s encouragement，a poor family，and higher education．
D．Mom's encouragement，a poor family，higher education and opportunities．

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