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You move every day. Every time you sit down, walk, ride a bike, or eat your food, you are moving. You e1. move while you are sitting in a chair. What gets you moving, keeps you moving, and helps you to move the way you want to move?

One force that helps you move is gravity. Gravity pulls you toward Earth. Why? Earth is bigger and h2. than you are, so you’re pulled by Earth’s gravity. How does that help you? When you take a step, gravity pulls on your foot. That pulling helps you put your foot down. Then, you can move your o3. foot. Do you like to play baseball? Gravity makes the baseball fall after it is h4.. Then, as gravity pulls the ball toward the ground, and can catch the ball.

Friction also helps you move. Friction happens when two o5. rub against each other. How does friction help you move? When you walk, friction keeps your feet from slipping. When you hold a pencil, friction helps keep it in your h6.. and friction makes the brakes on your bike work. too.

Inertia also helps you. Inertia is a sort of rule: it tells us two things; Things that are in movement will remain in movement until something stops them; and things that are at rest will stay at rest unless something moves them. When you ride your bike, it will keep going until you stop it, and when you sit down to read, you will stay where you are until you are r7. to move.

Next time you move, think about gravity, friction and inertia. All of them help to get you where you want to go.

① gravity n. 重力 ② friction n. 摩擦力 ③ inertia n. 惯性

A day is made up of hundreds of small decisions. I'll wear this; I'll buy this; I'll have this for lunch; I'll go there at 3 o'clock; I'll reply to this e-mail.

For some people, it's not a big deal. For others, however, making decisions isn't easy. They agonize over what to do, changing their minds back and forth. and second guessing themselves even after the decision has been made.

Emily was in the restaurant with her husband. After several minutes of reading the menu , she said , "Um , let's see. I don't know what to order. Maybe I'll have the burger; no wait, the pasta seems good. Or, maybe the soup and salad. Don, what are you ordering? OK; that sounds good ; I'll have that too. " Don often gets annoyed (恼怒的) .He doesn't understand why she finds the simplest decisions so difficult. He sometimes makes decisions for the two of them. But Emily gets annoyed with him for being so controlling. "But we'd never decide anything if I left it up to you," he argues.

Good decision-making is a skill that comes easily to some people, not so easily to others. Choices are confusing. Choices can make you anxious. They can cost you peace of mind, even after you've made the decision. The skill of good decision-making has become increasingly important. Why? Because we have a lot of choices, both with the simple and the serious things in life.

Decisions force us to close the door on other possibilities. Accept that you can't have it all. You can't order every delicious dish on the menu. And there will be paths not taken, things not experienced. Let the past be. Live in the present where what you do today will make a difference.

It's often good to think through your decisions, but don't overdo it. More thinking is not always better thinking. Too much research may lead to confusion. Sixth sense can help make decisions as good as careful study of endless data(数据) , sometimes even better.

Some decisions don't work out as expected ; this doesn't mean that you made a bad one. You decide to go on a cruise (油轮旅行) . You choose a large and beautiful ship. Everything should work out just right. Only you didn't count on a bug that spread through the ship, making you and your family sick for five clays. You felt terrible for making such a stupid decision. No. You did not make a stupid decision. It's just that sometimes the unexpected happens.

Try to make your decision. After all, it's your special experience.

1.The words "agonize over" in Paragraph 2 probably mean" ".

A.think about a difficult decision carefully and with lots of effort

B.stick to the big decision that you have made

C.let go of the decision that you have made

D.fear to make decision out of uncertainty

2.The writer mentioned Emily and her husband in Paragraph 3 to .

A.criticize Emily's husband for controlling

B.show how annoying indecisiveness could be

C.introduce how hard it was to decide what to eat

D.explain the difficulty Emily had when making a decision

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.We should think about all the possibilities before making a good decision.

B.Neither research nor data may help people with decision-making.

C.Sometimes unexpected situation may waste a good decision.

D.People feel terrible when making decisions.

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.Do you have difficulty making decisions?

B.Are you good at making a difficult decision?

C.Can you make a right decision easily or not?

D.Would you like to make decisions for others?

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