Recent studies show that only one out of three people have strong and healthy self-confidence. That  36 two out of every three people simply don’t know the 37 they already have to be successful when it’s  38 there in their hands!  39 if you want others to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself first. Remember: “No one can make you feel inferior (差的) unless you  40 them.” A successful businessman says, “You can’t push anyone up a ladder  41 he knows he can climb himself.”

Many of us have an image  42 , the image（形象）we have of ourselves.  43 one guy put it: “You can’t win a horse race if you think you look  44 on a horse.” To succeed, the first person you have to  45 is yourself! So stop believing your own lies about yourself. Just  46 your mind and you’ll change your life.

One of the most harmful weapons that can kill your success in life is the two little words:“47 ”. You know that people used to   48 that if human beings traveled faster than 30 miles an hour it would  49 our circulation（循环）of blood and kill us? Thank goodness a few people didn’t believe that  50 thinking, or we wouldn’t be riding in cars, buses, and flying in airplanes today. You’ll never know until you  51 .

Roger Bannister was the first human being to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But  52 he did it, most people in the world didn’t think it was even   53 Yet only weeks after Bannister did it, suddenly  54 all over the world began running a mile in less than 4 minutes! If we believe something can be done, we’ll  55  do it.

1.                A．reflects         B．means          C．reads D．explains

2.                A．chance         B．strength        C．reason   D．ability

3.                A．immediately     B．properly        C．right D．accurately

4.                A．But            B．Because        C．What D．While

5.                A．challenge       B．let             C．admit D．help

6.                A．if             B．except         C．unless    D．until

7.                A．quiz           B．question        C．mystery  D．problem

8.                A．As             B．When          C．While    D．Since

9.                A．curious         B．good-looking     C．funny    D．serious

10.               A．knock          B．beat           C．strike D．defend

11.               A．settle          B．bend          C．fix   D．change

12.               A．I failed         B．Not me.        C．I can’t   D．Can I?

13.               A．think          B．imagine        C．expect    D．doubt

14.               A．start           B．help           C．close D．stop

15.               A．empty         B．silly            C．reasonable D．terrible

16.               A．realize         B．try            C．understand D．judge

17.               A．before         B．after           C．since D．because

18.               A．likely          B．unbelievable    C．impossible D．possible

19.               A．runners        B．workers        C．competitors    D．players

20.               A．simply         B．seldom         C．usually    D．never

You don’t have to ______every little incident in your life.

A．settle down        B．break down        C．set up            D．set down

With a lot of difficult problems____________ , the manager felt worried all the time.

A. to settle             B. settling      C. settled               D. being settled

Rather than ______ to a secure life, the young man prefers wandering about in big cities, enjoying himself. 

Cure for Sorrow
There is an old story telling about a woman whose only son died in an accident. In her   31 , she went to the wise man that is always   32  for his wisdom in her town and said, “What advice or what   33  ways do you have to bring my son back to life? I will   34  you with all I have if you can.”
Instead of sending her away or   35  with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard(芥末) seed from a home that has never   36  sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life.” The woman went off at once in  37  of that magical mustard seed.
She came first to a splendid apartment,  38  at the door, and said in a  39  voice, “I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a(n)   40  that I want? It is very important to me.”
  41 , she didn’t get what she wanted, even without a single word of   42 . They told her that she had come to the wrong place. And they began to   43  all the tragic things that recently had happened to them.
The woman said to herself, “Who is better able to help these poor,    44  people than I, though I also have had misfortune of my own?” She   45  to comfort them till they   46 . Then she went on searching for a home that had never known sorrow. But   47  she turned up, in small cottages or in other places, she found one  48  after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so  49  in helping other people out of their sorrow that finally she forgot about her quest for the special mustard seed, in fact, never   50  that it had driven the sorrow out of her life.