You’ve probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, vocal music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists(精神病医师) and other specilalists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.

But there’s a rapidly growing kind of professional who does a little bit of everything. She or he is called a “life coach”. People who are at crossroads in their lives and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost are turning to them for help.

The idea that one person’s success story can change other people’s lives for the better goes back at least to the 1930s. Dale Carnegie’s famous self-improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.

But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers. They use their own experiences in business, sports, military service, or psychotherapy(心理疗法) to help others make critical life decisions.

They often give their approach a slogan, such as “energy coaching” or “fearless living” or “working yourself happy”.

Dave Lakhani in Boise, Idaho, for instance, works with salespeople to develop what he calls a “road map”. He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for one’s career and life outside work.

Lakhani’s Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful—including battered women and struggling sigle mothers.

But others in the so-called “helping professions” are not thrilled about the life-coaching movement. They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and that slick(华而不实的) promoters who mess with people’s lives can do more harm than good.

1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Working Yourself Happy

B. Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions

C. How to Cope with Daily Life with Life Coaches

D. The Life-Coaching Movement

2.The underlined phrase “life coach” in Paragraph 2 means “ ”.

A. the career counselor who teaches skills

B. the psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily life

C. the fitness coach who teaches us lessons

D. the specialist who help us make important life decisions

3.The last paragraph is mainly about .

A. the introductions of life coach

B. the disagreements of life coach

C. the effects of life coach

D. the experiences of life coach

4.What is the author’s attitude towards life coaches?

A. Cautious B. Approving C. Casual D. Disapproving

B

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Build it ,Make it ,Play it ! Guides for Children and Teens Bomhold Catharine ;Elder Terri,2004 l ABC-CLIO

Series: Children’s and Young Adult Literature Reference

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For busy librarians and educators ,finding instructions for projects ,activities ,sports ,and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge, This guide is a time-saving,one-stop….

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Circle Time for Young Children

Mosley Jenny,2014 l Taylor and Francis

Series: Essential Guides for Early Years Practitioners

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Jenny Mosley’s quality circle time model involves setting up an on-going, timetable process

Of circle-meeting for adults and children ,As a basis for teaching relationship skills, building up self-esteem…..

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Connecting Animals and children in Early Childhood

Selly Patty Born,2014 l Redleaf Press

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Understand the value of connecting animals and children .From familys pets and wild animals to toys ,stuffed animal ,and media images ,animals are a central part of every child’s world .This book examines….

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Education and Disadvantaged Children and Young People

Matsumoto Mitsuko; Brool Colin,2013 l Bloomsbury Publishiing

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Do street children go ti school ,and if not ,why not? What kind of education can be ‘meaningful’ to young people affected by conflict? The contributors explore groups of children and young people who have….

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Children with School problme:A Physkian’s Manual

The children paediatric Society; Andrews Debra;Mahoney WilliamJ,2012 I wiley

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The physician’s guide to diagnosing and treating learning disabilities in children.1 to 10 Canadians have a learning disability,and doctors must be able to idcntify,diagnose,trear,and manage children…

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Songs in Their Heads:Music and Its Meaning In Children’s Lives

Campbell Patricia Shehan,1989 I Oxford University Press

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This book explores the intrest and needs of children in their expressed thounts and actual “musicking”behaviours, This text examines the songs they sing,the ryhthms…

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Young Children as Artists:Art and Design in the Earty Years and Kay Stage 1

Tutchell Suzy 2014 I Taylor Francis

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From the monment a child is bom,they intctract with the world,looking at colours,feeding texrures;constructing mental and physical images of what they see and experience.Within all early years…

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Big Ideas for Littles Kids:TEAching Philosophy Through Children’s Liferature

Wartnberg Thomas E.2014 I Rowman&Littlefield Publishers

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Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher,or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books.Written in a clear and accessible style…

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1.Suppose you are doing research on children’s relationship skills,you may want to read.

A.Circle Time for Young Children

B. Children with School Problems:A Phsysician’s Manual

C.Education and Disaddvantaged Children and Young People

D.Build It,Make It,Do It,Play It!Guides for Children and Teens

2.Which book would you recommend to someone interesten inchildren’s mental imanges?

A.Connecting Animals and Children in Early Childhood.

B.Songs in Their Heads:Music and Its Meaning in children’sLives.

C.Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through children’s Literature.

D.Young Children as Artists:Art and Design in the Early Years and Key Stage 1.

3.How many books published in 2015 are found in this search?

A. 9. B.90. C.118. D.290.

4. Children with School Problems:A Phsysician’s Manua lis most likely intended for.

A. educators B. librarians C. doctors D.artists

阅读短文,并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career as an educational consultant. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.

My life improved remarkably when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay(黏土). Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language. I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.

I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.

Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write. Every day I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate.

Having gone through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

1. What made the author’s school days difficult? (No more than 5 words)

2. Why did art give the author confidence? (No more than 10 words)

3.What lesson did the author learn from rock climbing? (No more than 15 words)

4. What is the meaning of the underlined part in Paragraph 4? (No more than 5 words)

5. How does the author’s story inspire you to overcome difficulties in life? Put it in your own words. (No more than 20 words)

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