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When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结).To show this, she pick up one chopstick, taking it as one person.Then she easily broke it into two pieces.Next, she tied several chopsticks together, taking them as a family.She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up

Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California.However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money.They moved their family to San Francisco.There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop.Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant.The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young.However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business.They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles.Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful.Daughter Elisabeth explains, "Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace.Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”

With three generations of Ans working together, now the Ans'business makes more than $20 million each year.Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together.Now they are a big success.

1.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A.How to Run a Corporation Well

B.Strength Comes from Peace

C.How to Achieve a Big Dream

D.Family Unity Builds Success

2.What can we infer about the An's daughters?

A.They went out to work for themselves before graduation.

B.They all would not like to work in their family business.

C.They were deeply influenced by what Helene taught them.

D.There always were disagreements among family members

3.Helene once used chopsticks to show ______

A.the quality of the chopsticks

B.the difficulty of being united

C.the strength of family unity

D.how to be a strong person

4.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An's family ______

A.began to run a restaurant in 1975

B.left Vietnam without much money

C.bought a restaurant in Los Angeles

D.opened a sandwich shop in San Francisco

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Conquering Procrastination (拖延症)

Procrastination, the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute, can be a major problem in both your career and your personal life. 1. . Therefore, it takes deliberate strategies to avoid becoming our own worst enemy by procrastinating on our intended actions.

Don’t give in to feeling good. 2. . For example, a task at hand makes us feel anxious or overwhelmed, so we give in to feeling good, seeking immediate emotional relief, and we walk away, leaving the task for tomorrow. To cope with this, stay for a minute — don’t walk away. Acknowledge the negative emotions, but get started anyway. Progress on a goal provides the motivation for another step forward.

3. . We’re most likely to procrastinate on tasks that lack structure. This means that in addition to making your task specific, it’s important to reduce the uncertainty about how to continue — and, when it’s time to act, to reduce available distractions (分心的事物) as well. Shut off your e-mail, separate yourself from others as much as you can, and make sure the environment around you is working to strengthen your willpower and focus, not to weaken your efforts.

Make the most of the willpower muscle. A great deal of recent research clearly indicates that willpower is like a muscle. You can exhaust it more quickly than you might imagine and, when you do, you lose your ability to self-regulate your behavior. One immediate method to strengthen your resolve in order to keep you on task is to remind yourself of your values. 4. .

Beating procrastination isn’t rocket science, but it is psychology. Procrastinators can change their behavior — but doing so consumes a lot of mental energy. 5. . It can be done with highly organized cognitive (认知的) behavior treatment.

A. Its side effects include losing opportunities, rushed work, stress, anger, and guilt.

B. Do not perform several tasks at a time.

C. This process of self-recognition strengthens our weakening willpower.

D. When self-regulation fails, it’s often because short-term emotional repair comes before our long-term goals.

E. And it doesn’t necessarily mean one feels transformed internally.

F. It means doing more enjoyable things in place of less enjoyable ones.

G. Reduce uncertainty and distractions.

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An interview can be a nerve-racking (令人紧张的) experience. 1. Nevertheless, with a few interview tips, you will be on your way to getting that job you need so desperately!

The first interview tip you will ever get is to be yourself. 2. You must bear in mind that there is no one else like you on the earth. In believing in yourself, you can successfully prepare yourself psychologically for that nerve-racking interview!

Second in line for great interview tips is that you should be on time. 3. If you think that you may run into a problem getting to a interview on time, leave early to ensure that you will get there on time. Showing up for an interview on time shows that you are a responsible person.

A great tip to remember during an interview is to turn off your cell phone. There is nothing more annoying to an employer than a cell phone ringing every five minutes during an interview. 4. So it is best to turn off your cell phone.

5. An interviewer’s tone of voice, their attitude, their style of speech and their body motions can indicate to you how you should respond to the questions they pose.

A. Send an e-mail to the interviewer on time.

B. Being late for an interview is unsatisfactory.

C. Therefore knowing how to get through an interview is vital.

D. The cell phone is very useful whenever you are in trouble.

E. Act naturally and take pride in yourself.

F. Pay close attention to the interviewer while you are being interviewed.

G. Besides, continuous interruptions may be a sign of unprofessional behavior.

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