题目内容
Mistakes don't just happen; they occur for a reason.Find out the reason, and then making the mistake becomes _______.
A.favourable B.precious C.essential D.worthwhile
D
“People are ruder today because they are rushed and more ‘time poor’ than ever before, ” says Patsy Rowe, “ Manners have fallen off the radar(雷达). ” Due to our strong attraction to electronic equipment it is a wonder more people don’t wake up each morning and greet the singing birds with a complaint(抱怨)about the noise. Here are some examples of rudeness.
Some people prefer to do almost everything over the internet. To them, dealing with an actual human is like an evolutionary step backward. It feels very slow because humans don, t work at 4G speeds. When you have dinner with friends, you will often notice someone paying more attention to his mobile phone. We have programmed ourselves to think that every new message brings life-changing news, so taking calls and checking our texts are more important than talking to the people we are with. What is worse, some people even tend to send anonymous(匿名的) rude messages by email.
However, rudeness is never acceptable, Don, t assume it is OK to be rude if the person you, re in touch with won, t recognize you. If you have something awful to say, have the courage to face the person and say it, write a letter or email and sign it, or forget it. Upsetting people with unsigned messages is cruel and disgusting.
We shouldn′t blame technology for our shortcomings. Technology is here to help us, but we should not allow it to take over our lives. An important step is acknowledging our shortcomings. People spend a lot of time pointing out bad manners but it would be even more help if we′d publicly acknowledge good manners when we see them.
【小题1】What can be inferred from the underlined sentence in Paragraph I?
A.People can tell good from bad behavior. |
B.Radar is able to observe human behavior. |
C.People care little about their behavior. |
D.Radar can be used to predict human behavior. |
A.they are becoming less patient |
B.they are growing too independent |
C.they have to handle many important messages |
D.they have to follow an evolutionary step backward. |
A.Ridiculous | B.disgusting | C.acceptable | D.reasonable |
A.We should applaud good behabior. |
B.Technology can neber be blamed |
C.We should keep pointing out mistakes. |
D.Technology will take over lives one day. |
When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish (珍视) it like it’s the most precious thing in the world, because in some ways, it is.
Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.
And that’s only natural. Most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, and we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes—at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious(无意识的)reaction.
Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world. They make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.
By trial and error—trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes—we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.
Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, and make works of genius possible.
Think about how we learn:We don’t just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it. You don’t just read about painting,or writing,or computer programming,or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually...then you construct a model in your mind...then you test it out by trying it in the real world...then you make mistakes...then you revise the model based on the results of your real world experimentation...and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you’ve pretty much learned how to do something. That’s how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new—because if you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do. You haven’t really grown much from that success—at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey is made up of mistakes, if it’s a good journey.
So if you value learning,if you value growing and improving,then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.
1.Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?
A.Because mistakes make us suffer a lot. |
B.Because it’s a natural part in our life. |
C.Because we’ve been taught so from a young age. |
D.Because mistakes have ruined many people’s careers. |
2.According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?
A.We should try to avoid making mistakes. |
B.We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes. |
C.We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn. |
D.We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction. |
3.The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph 6 probably means ________.
A.a small child learning to walk |
B.a kindergarten child learning to draw |
C.a primary pupil learning to read |
D.a school teenager learning to write |
4.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A.most of us can really grow from success |
B.growing and improving are based on mistakes |
C.we learn to make mistakes by trial and error |
D.we read about something and know how to do it right away |
5.What is the best title of this passage?
A.Value Mistakes |
B.Mistakes Make Things Possible |
C.Try to Avoid Mistakes |
D.Life is a Journey Full of Mistakes |