“First we make our habits,then our habits make us.”——Charles C.Noble

  It’s such a simple concept,yet it's something we don’t always do. It’s not extremely difficult to do, and yet I think it’s something that would make a world of difference in anyone’s life. Break your goals into habits,and focus on putting those habits into autopilot. My belief is that having one goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals.

  I try to turn my goals into habits,and in doing so,I put my goals on autopilot. Turning a goal into a habit means really focusing on it,seriously,for at least a month,to the exclusion of all else. The more you can focus on it, the more it’ll be put on autopilot. Let’s look at my marathon goal as an example. I was just starting out in running,and l had the brilliant idea to run a marathon within a year. But in order to achieve that goal,I broke it down into two habits:

  1.I had to make running a daily habit.

  2.I had to report to people in order to have accountability(责任)—I did this through family,friends and coworkers,through a blog,and through a column in my local newspaper every two weeks. With this accountability,there’s no way l would stop running.

  The accountability habit took a couple of months,mainly because I didn’t focus on it too much while l was building the running habit. But it stuck,and for that first year of running,I would report to people I knew and blog about my running every day and I would write a column every two weeks for my local paper.

  Once those two habits were firmly fixed,my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot. I still had to do the work,of course,but it didn’t require constant focus. And eventually,I ran the marathon. I was able to achieve this because,all year long,I had the daily running habit and daily accountability habit. I put my marathon goal into autopilot,and that made it much easier--instead of struggling with it daily for an entire year,I focused on it for one month and was able to accomplish it while focusing on new habits and goals.

55.According to the passage,we can see the key to forming a habit is ______________.

A.to break the goals into habits

B.to report to other people about your plan

C.to set a reasonable goal first

D.to focus on the habit as much as possible

56.The author told people about his running in order to ______________.

A.get more support

B.ask for their opinions

C.carry out his plan better

D.earn more admiration

57.What do we know about the author?

A.He was a local athlete.

B.He often gave people advice.

C.He had no blogs before.

D.He wrote for a local newspaper.

58.The passage is mainly about ______________.

A.goals and habits

B.how to turn your goals into habits

C.habits and achievements

D.how to make running a good habit

 

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The Bay Motel

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l         80 rooms with color TV

l         Restaurant and bar

l         5 miles from downtown San Francisco

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l         A tradition for wise travelers since 1932

l         54 rooms, color TV

l         Heated swimming pool

l         Restaurant, bar, room service

l         In the heart of San Francisco!

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1. “The Bay Motel” is most probably ________.

A. a hotel specially for traveling drivers   

B. a traditional hotel that is near the sea

C. a large hotel that provides the best service but charges more

D. a nice hotel that provides everything the customers need

2. It can be learned from the two advertisements that _________.

  A. aged travelers will usually choose the Welcome Inn

  B. guests in the Bay Motel only pay a little for parking

  C. guests in the Welcome Inn can have food or drinks in their rooms

  D. wise travelers always put up at the Welcome Inn

3. The most possible reason why the Bay Motel is cheaper than the Welcome Inn is that _________.

  A. it has been opened for only a few years   B. it has a parking place

  C. it has more rooms for customers            D. it is not in the center of the city

4. How much will Mary and Joan, who are fond of swimming, probably pay for two nights?

  A. $39                      B. $45                   C. $58                   D. $70

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