题目内容

Comfort Zone is a state(状态）of mind where there is the least stress. However, stepping into the learning zone can help to bring out the best in us. Here are the reasons.

Challenging yourself can help you do at your best.

Stepping outside one's comfort zone is important to personal development. How can we expect to make ourselves better if we only stick to habit and routine(日常）? We should try something we might not succeed at.

Taking risks is what helps us grow.

As children, we're natural risk-takers. But as we get older and learn to fear failure(失败）, we start trying fewer new things. We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. There is no learning without some difficulty.

Facing new challenges can help us age better.

Our comfort zones seem to become smaller as we get older-but if we can keep expanding them, we'll open ourselves up to a greater world as we age. As we step into the learning zone, we will get more comfortable with the skills gradually and we'll start to move into the comfort zone. A study found that learning new life skills can help our brain stay sharp(敏锐的）as we get older.

However, don't push yourself too far. Have you heard of "Yerkes-Dodson Law”？ It means performance increases as stress grows, but only up to a point. If the level of stress becomes too high, performance will go down. When stress becomes too great for us to deal with, we enter the danger zone.

1.Compared with the comfort zone, people in the learning zone may .

A.feel less stress B.face more challenges

C.make fewer efforts D.refuse more changes

2.From paragraph 3, we will learn more if we .

A.spend money B.fear failure C.take risks D.feel natural

3.The best title of the passage might be .

A.Comfort Zone Makes Us Safe

B.What Is Comfort Zone

C.Step Outside Comfort Zone

D.Never Fear Comfort Zone

4.“Yerkes-Dodson Law” can be described by Graph .

A. B.

C. D.

练习册系列答案
相关题目

There is ________ “u” in the word “though”. Please don’t miss it when you write the word.

A.a B.an C.the D./

你将会按照工作量的多少获得报酬。

You will be paid ________ ________ the amount of work you do.

We should open the windows to have some ________ air every day.

A.fresh B.safe C.silly D.nervous

her mother has been a party member for there agos.（改为同义句）

Her mother ____________ the party three years _____________ .

A new study has showed the importance of exercise for teenage girls. Scientists studied the information from a study made in Shanghai on 75,000 _________aged from 40 to 70. The team found that women who often_______ as a teenager were healthier than those who didn't.

The scientists said that teenage girls who did almost 80 minutes exercise a week had a 16 percent lower risk of _________ from illnesses. This percentage(百分比) went down to 13 for women who exercised more than 80 minutes a week as teenagers. They said that women would usually live ______if they did just 15 minutes of exercise a day in their teens.

Head scientist Dr. Sarah Nechuta said that _________ women in their twenties, thirties and forties did not go out to work, doing exercise as teens would help _________ live longer. She said, "Whether they are adults or _______ , as for women, they can take lower risks of illnesses if they take part in exercise."

She added, "Our study shows the ________ of starting exercising from teenager time. It helps teenagers take part in exercising so that they can take _________ risks of illnesses and live longer in their later life." Dr. Nechuta said that although the study __________ the information on women in China, theadvantage of exercising during the teen years could be helpful to all women anywhere in the world.

1.A.women B.men C.girls D.boys

2.A.studied B.worked C.exercised D.played

3.A.coming B.dying C.stopping D.leaving

4.A.nearer B.closer C.shorter D.longer

5.A.so that B.even if C.as soon as D.as for

6.A.them B.it C.her D.him

7.A.boys B.gills C.teenagers D.men

8.A.difficulty B.illness C.health D.importance

9.A.lower B.longer C.richer D.poorer

10.A.asked for B.depended on C.waited for D.taken out

With the of society, our environment is becoming worse and worse. So we should do what we can our environment.

A.develop; protect B.developing; to protect

C.development; to protect D.development; protect

Can We Learn More by Trusting than by Not Trusting?

Most of us have been burned by misplaced trust. These experiences lead us to believe that people are too trusting.

But in fact we don't trust enough. A survey about trust in the United States has found that interpersonal trust, a measure (测量) of whether people think others are in general trust worthy is at its lowest in nearly 50 years.

If people are more trustworthy, why don't we trust more?

When you trust someone, you end up working out whether your trust is justified (证明合理) or not. A child next door asks if he can visit your place. If you accept you will find out whether or not he's a good neighbor. A classmate advises you to adopt a new reading method. If you follow the advice you will find out whether the new method works better than the one you were used to.

However, when you don't trust someone. You never find out whether you should trust them. If you don't invite the child over, you won't know whether he would have made a good neighbor or not. If you don't follow your classmate's advice, you won't know if the new method is in fact superior.

This information means that we learn more by trusting than by not trusting. Moreover, when we trust, we learn not only about specific persons, we learn more generally about the type of situations in which we should or shouldn't trust. We get better at trusting.

When our trust is disappointing, the coats are visible (明显的), and our reaction (反应) changes from trouble all the way to hopelessness. The benefit that we've learnt from our mistake is easy to overlook. However, the costs of not trusting someone we could have trusted are invisible. We won't know about the friendship we could have built if we don't let that child go into our place. We won't realise how useful some advice would have been if we don't use our classmate's tip about the new reading method.

Giving people a chance isn't only the moral (道德的) thing to do. It's also the smart thing to do.

1.The writer mentions the survey about trust in the United States in Paragraph 2 to show that ________.

A.Americans are popular B.the measure is unbelievable

C.interpersonal trust is important D.people are short of enough trust

2.We can ________ to make us get better at trusting.

A.try to refuse other people's help

B.change our feelings of disappointment

C.find out the balance between trust and mistrust

D.make a smart decision and give people a chance

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.The friendship between friends is trustworthy.

B.The costs of mistaken mistrust are largely hidden.

C.We can get more from not trusting than from trusting.

D.It is unlikely that people are less trustworthy than before.

4.What is the writer's main purpose in writing this passage?

A.To stress we should trust other people.

B.To question all the experiences of misplaced trust.

C.To introduce some of the trust that can bring us benefits.

D.To discuss which situation we should or shouldn't trust in.

Have you ever had a problem you couldn’t solve? Maybe you went to a shop to look for a solution, but came home empty-handed. More and more, when this situation appears, people are creating their own devices (设备) as the solution. It’s all part of the Maker Movement, made up of thousands of resourceful people who make and fix things, rather than buy them in shops. Makers do all kinds of hands-on projects, from building pizza oven (烤箱) to designing their own drones. For makers, the do-it-yourself way is more affordable, green and satisfying.

Thanks to technology, it’s easier than ever to turn a thought into reality. Many makers use the same tools, just in different ways. For example, Arduino allows people to do anything from creating a talking clock to studying DNA, with very easy-to-use and free hardware (硬件) and software. Raspberry Pi is another popular maker tool. It is a low cost, bank-card sized computer drone that connects to computers or TVs, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing. This minicomputer is as powerful as some full-sized computers. People are using Raspberry Pi for a wide variety of uses, from creating video games to powering robots.

Another key piece of technology for makers are 3D printers, which allow a normal person to create just about anything. You can even use a 3D printer to build your own 3D printer!

The availability of these technologies encourages people to be creative, but technology is only one part of the Maker Movement. Collaboration – whether online or in person – is just as important. This is clear from the growing popularity of Maker Faires, events where people come together to experiment in the areas of art, science, engineering and technology.

So, do you have what it takes to become a maker? You need to be creative and willing to play around with some new technologies. You should also want to share your ideas with others. Perhaps most importantly, you can’t be afraid of failure. Creators hardly ever get it right on the first try. Be brave, be creative, be co-operative and have fun!

1.What can we infer from Paragraph 2? （ ）

A.Raspberry Pi helps realise makers’ ideas more easily than before.

B.Full-sized computers are much more powerful than Arduino.

C.People can communicate with their clocks through Arduino.

D.Many free video games can be created with Raspberry Pi.

2.The word “collaboration” in Paragraph 4 probably means “______”. （ ）

A.creating solutions B.growing quickly

C.doing experiments D.working together

3.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? （ ）

A.Various Tools-Using B.Creative Problem-Solving

C.Development of New Technology D.Inventions with High-tech Devices

违法和不良信息举报电话：027-86699610 举报邮箱：58377363@163.com

精英家教网