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Lesson 3 is ________ the others. It's much easier.
- A.more difficult than
- B.not so easy as
- C.as difficult as
- D.not so difficult as
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Time is very important in our lives. But it never had any importance in my life until I 1 a watch from my father that made me responsible(有责任). It 2 me the importance of time in my life.
I got this gift on a grey-sky day. I had to go to the 3 at 9:00 a.m. to pick up（接）my uncle Ali and take him to my father’s house. However, I forgot it 4 I was playing with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00 a.m., I 5 my uncle, but I was late for him. He had got out of the plane and 6 a taxi to my father’s house.
I 7 my father’s house at 2:00 p.m. at the same day . My father looked at me angrily. I said “hi” to him and my 8 uncle. My father asked me to sit 9 him and handed me this watch which was a gift from 10 . It weighed 8 oz（盎司）and all of it was made of silver（银）. Then he said, “Essa, did you have fun 11 your friends today? What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your 12 .” I felt sorry and told my father that I wouldn’t do it again. Then he said, “This watch will be a reminder(提醒物) for you. I hope today you have learned something 13 .”
I learned a lesson from my father: to respect(尊重) time and 14 be late. The watch is important to me, not because of its 15 , but because of the lesson that I learned from it.
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One summer vacation in my college, my roommate Ted asked to me to work on his father’s farm in Argentina. The idea was exciting. Then I had second thoughts. I had never been far from New England, and I had been homesick my first few weeks at college. What about the language? The more I thought about it, the more the idea worried me.
Finally, I turned down the invitation. Then I realized I had turned down something I wanted to do because I was scared and felt depressed(沮丧). That experience taught me a valuable lesson and I developed a rule for myself: do what makes you anxious(焦虑); don’t do what makes you depressed.
In my senior year, I wanted to be a writer. But my professor wanted me to teach. I hesitated. The idea of writing was much scarier than spending a summer in Argentina. Back and forth I went, making my decision, unmaking it. Suddenly I realized that every time I gave up the idea of writing, that downhearted feeling went through me.
Giving up writing really depressed me. Then I learned another lesson. To avoid the depression meant having to bear much worry and concern.
When I first began writing articles, I often interviewed big names. Before each interview I would get butterflies in the stomach. One of them was the great composer Duke Ellington. On the stage and on television, he seemed very confident. Then I learned Ellington still got stage fright（害怕）. If Ellington still had anxiety attacks, how could I avoid them? I went on doing those frightening interviews. Little by little, I was even looking forward to the interviews. Where were those butterflies?
In truth, they were still there, but fewer of them. I had learned from a process psychologists（心理学家） call “extinction”. If you put an individual in an anxious situation often, finally there isn’t anything to be worried about, which brings me to a conclusion: you’ll never get rid of anxiety by avoiding the things that caused it.
The point is that the new, the different, is definitely scary. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.
【小题1】We can infer from the passage that the author________.
| A．finds it difficult to make decision |
| B．has found out what causes anxiety |
| C．was encouraged by Duke Ellington’s stage fright |
| D．no longer feels anxious about new experiences |
| A．a person’s loss of confidence little by little |
| B．the natural development of a child’s abilities |
| C．the inborn ability to avoid anxious situations |
| D．the process of losing fear by keeping facing anxiety |
| A．Anxiety can be a positive drive |
| B．Hesitation leads to depression. |
| C．Avoiding anxiety reduces depression. |
| D．Depression is a signal that one is growing up. |
| A．Confidence: Key to Success |
| B．Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name |
| C．Depression: A Psychological Appearance |
| D．Success: A Trip Through Anxiety and Depression |
When I was seven years old, my family made me an ant farm. First , we put clean sand in a thin glass box. Then we waited for the ants to arrive.
After the ants were in the glass farm, they started to make tunnels(隧道). I was amazed that each one knew exactly what to do. Each had its own job.
On the fifth day a tragedy happened. I put my face so close to the glass farm that I knocked it over.
All the tunnels fell down. Although the ants remained alive after their earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was scared as I watched them give up building their tunnels to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm .
My mother said that the ants were dying of sadness . They simply could not stand that their tunnels were gone.
Although much time has passed , I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world , but it taught me much more.
Over the years, I came to realize the importance of teamwork . Working together , the ants were able to make an amazing world for themselves . I also learned that they should be admired for their hard word.
But there was an even larger lesson that I did not realize until recently: adversity is a natural part of life , and must be accepted . Unlike the ants ,we cannot give up when we are sad . We have to realize that if a tunnel is gone , we must building another .
Giving up , I say , is not a good choice.
【小题1】The writer’s family made him an ant farm when he was___.
| A．seven years old | B．seventeen years old. |
| C．seventy years old | D．six years old |
| A．The writer broke the glass box because it made his face dirty. |
| B．The ants died one by one because the tunnels were destroyed. |
| C．Unlike people , teamwork is not so important for the ants. |
| D．Giving up is a good way when we meet trouble. |
A小组工作 B团队合作 C辛勤劳作 D不停工作
【小题4】What did the writer come to realize a few years later?
| A．Working together is useless. | B．Teamwork is important. |
| C．He can’t accept adversity. | D．Working alone is amazing. |