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When I was a kid, I was a little fat, but I was also into sports．In college, I was less active, and I started blowing up．It got out of control when I went to law school．
I’d made a mental decision a thousand times ;Pm going to start losing weight now．But what prompted me to get serious about it was turning 30．At that point, I weighed 414 pounds．I was always tired．I have a family history of heart disease, and I was scared．I also wanted to look better．So a few weeks after my birthday, in the spring of 2006, I started to lose weight．
Walking was all I could do at first．I started by walking to a subway stop a few blocks away instead of the one closest to my apartment．On weekends, I’d walk in Central Park．I gradually increased the distance．A year later, I started to run．At first I could run for only two minutes, but I kept on．
It made a difference．I was losing nine or ten pounds a month, and I had a lot more energy． And there’s something about running．It makes you feel like a kid again．I enjoyed it．I started to think about the New York City Marathon, which goes right past my apartment building．For years, I thought I could never do that．But now I realized that maybe I could．By my 33rd birthday, in the spring of 2009, I was down to 180 pounds．That summer, I started formally training for the marathon．And on the morning of November 1, I stood on the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island with more than 40,000 other runners, waiting for the event to start．When we started moving, it was an amazing feeling to have people cheering me on, handing me cups of water．In Harlem, my mom and brother stood on a street corner, waving．And then I crossed the finish line in Central Park, and somebody put a medal around my neck．I was in tears from being so happy．
At that moment, I knew: If I set my mind to something, nothing is impossible．
1．How old is the writer in the year of 2006?
A．30． B．31． C．32． D．33．
2．The underlined word "blowing up" in Paragraph 1 could roughly be replaced by ___ _．
A．losing the temper B．gaining weight
C．breaking the tire D．air charging
3．The first step the write takes to lose his weight is __ __．
A．dieting B．running C．walking D．swimming
4．Which statement is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A．The writer once weighed 414 pounds．
B．The writer lives in New York City.
C．The writer almost lost more than 200 pounds during 3 years.
D．The starting point of the City Marathon is Central Park.
ABCD
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Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man w
ho seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new an
d better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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