--Did Mike ________ your advice?

--Yes. He ________ smoking at last.

1. A.
   ask; gave up
2. B.
   follow; gave in
3. C.
   take; gave in
4. D.
   take; gave up

You need to change in order to grow. Changing your life is a continuous process. It never ends. The moment you stop changing, you stop growing. Here are some tips that may help to change your life:

To change your life, you need time to think and reflect. If you are always busy, you won’t have the time to think about your life, let alone taking action to change it. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast ― you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

It’s your life; nobody can change it but you. If you aren’t willing to change, then nothing in this world can make you do so. To build the willingness to change, first you should realize that your life can be better than it is now. No matter how good your life is, it can always be improved. On the other hand, don’t feel hopeless if your life doesn’t seem good right now. You can always change your life for the better.

Don’t blame other people for the bad things that happen in your life. Don’t blame your family, friends, boss, or the economy. Whether your life goes up or down depends on you and you alone. Stephen Covey once said, “We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.”

Deep down in your heart, there are some principles that you know is true. Take the time to find them. What do you think is the most valuable thing in life? What principles do you think you must follow to live a fulfilling life? These are the values that you need to align yourself with. Find them and remind yourself constantly about them.

Not only can this person give you advice on what to do in certain situations, he can also warn you about possible pitfalls in your path. Without a mentor, most likely you will have to learn many lessons the hard way. Having a mentor will save you serious amount of time.

Dear Johnston,
Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to satisfy now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, “We can get along very well again,” but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some fault in your behavior. What that fault is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler(游手好闲). I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any other day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it.
This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.
You are now in need of some ready money; and what I suggest is, that you shall go to work hard, for somebody who will give you money for it.
Let father and your boys take charge of your things at home-prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or to pay back any debt you owe. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work.
Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $ 70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months’ work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed(抵押) me the land, and if you don’t pay the money back, you will deliver possession-Nonsense! If you can’t now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight time eighty dollars to you.
Affectionately
Your brother
A. Lincoln

1. 1.

   Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to Johnston mainly to ________.

   1. A.
      show his concern for him
   2. B.
      recommend him to save money
   3. C.
      decline his request and motivate him
   4. D.
      introduce him a new job
2. 2.

   What’s the problem with Johnston, according to Lincoln?

   1. A.
      He was very lazy.
   2. B.
      He wasted time a lot.
   3. C.
      He couldn’t get much from work.
   4. D.
      He disliked working.
3. 3.

   In the letter Lincoln suggested that Johnston should ________.

   1. A.
      keep himself from getting into trouble
   2. B.
      go to work hard for somebody
   3. C.
      manage well the things at home
   4. D.
      keep the children out of the idle habit
4. 4.

   If Johnston got one dollar for his work, Lincoln promised to _________.

   1. A.
      reward him with labor
   2. B.
      pay off his debt
   3. C.
      hire him at 10 dollars a month
   4. D.
      give him another dollar
5. 5.

   In order to get 80 dollars from Lincoln, Johnston promised to ________.

   1. A.
      take away his place in Heaven
   2. B.
      deed Lincoln the land
   3. C.
      live without the land
   4. D.
      do good work every day

Smaller than your fist, your healthy heart just goes on and on. It will beat more than 60 times a minute for 70 years or more. That’s something that most of us take for granted. But it’s an amazing fact.
60 times a minute for 60 minutes is 3,600 times. What physical thing can most of us do 3,600 times in one hour? Blink? Maybe. Tap our fingers on the desk? No. Jump up and down? Certainly not! But our heart keeps beating, hour after hour. Every day, it pumps almost 2,000 gallons of blood through our blood vessels(血管). It takes you about five years to drink 2,000 gallons of water.
And, unlike your knees or your back, your heart does all this work without ever complaining（抱怨）! You never know that it’s even there. Your heart is such a reliable “silent partner” that people forget to care for it. For many, the first indication（迹象）that their heart isn’t working properly is a serious heart illness! Over 650,000 Americans die of some kind of heart disease every year. Cancer kills 560,000, stroke kills 143,000, and accidents kill 118,000 Americans annually.
Like accidental deaths, many heart disease-related deaths can be avoided if people simply follow the advice of the experts. Unfortunately, most people seem to listen to a little voice in their head that says, “It won’t happen to me. ” So these people keep on smoking and drinking. They continue to eat too much meat. And their only “exercise” is getting off the sofa to get something out of the fridge. Please follow the following steps to keep your heart healthy

1. 1.

   The text is most probably taken from a (an)______.

   1. A.
      art book
   2. B.
      science fiction
   3. C.
      healthy magazine
   4. D.
      psychology book
2. 2.

   Which of the following physical activities can keep going on and on?

   1. A.
      Blink
   2. B.
      Jump
   3. C.
      Finger tap
   4. D.
      Heart beat
3. 3.

   According to the numbers mentioned in paragraph 3, we can know ______.

   1. A.
      Accidents can be the biggest “killer” in America every year
   2. B.
      In America, heart disease causes the highest death rate annually
   3. C.
      Cancer causes more threat than any other diseases for Americans
   4. D.
      Recently, nobody died of stroke or heart disease in America
4. 4.

   What do we know about our healthy hearts?

   1. A.
      our healthy hearts work with many complains as our knees
   2. B.
      our healthy hearts can pump 3,600 gallons of blood everyday
   3. C.
      our healthy hearts are smaller than our fists
   4. D.
      our healthy hearts can beat 60 times in one hour
5. 5.

   What do you think the next paragraph is about?

   1. A.
      Some tips for keeping a healthy heart
   2. B.
      Some suggestions for avoiding accidental deaths
   3. C.
      Some reasons for doing regular exercise
   4. D.
      Some exercise for keeping a healthy lifestyle

-How’s your interview with IBM yesterday?

-Well，they are willing to pay me three times my present salary．

-That’s ______

A．an offer hard to turn down                       B．a suggestion we must take

C．all advice you have to follow                     D．an advantage you should have