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【题目】– I’m still repairing my car.

- Oh, you’ll be late for the meeting. Time is .

A. running out B. going out

C. giving out D. losing out

【答案】A

【解析】

试题分析：考查动词短语辨析。A. running out用完；B. going out出去；C. giving out分发；D. losing out损失。句意：——我还在修车。——你开会要迟到了。时间快没了。故选A。

练习册系列答案

A．to rise

B．to raise

C．rising

D．raising

【题目】 Liu opened her mouth as if _ something to Calaf, but gave up seeing his passionate eyes locked on Turandot.

A. to say B. wanted to say

C. saying D. to be saying

【题目】Overcoming Obstacles: How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Success

There’s been a lot written on the theme of failure and how essential it is to success. In a world where 【1】 is given for people’s accomplishments, failing feels dangerous. The fear of failure can stop people taking risks that might lead to success.

Heidi Grant Halvorson, a psychologist, points out much of success is 【2】 not on talent but on learning from your mistakes.

About half of the people in the world hold that ability in an area --- be it creative or social skill --- is natural. The other half believes, instead, that someone might have a preference or something --- say painting or speaking foreign languages --- but this ability can be improved through 【3】 practice or training.

It’s almost impossible to think rationally (理性地) while shouting at yourself, “I’m a failure”. But when you 【4】 your thinking, you will probably see what you can control --- your behavior, your planning, your reactions --- and change them.

The primary 【5】 between successful people and unsuccessful people is that the successful people fail more. If you see failure as a monster approaching you, take another look.

Success is as scary as failure. Researchers report that satisfaction grows on challenges. Think about it --- a computer game you can always win is boring; one you can win 【6】, and with considerable effort, is fun. In pursuit of success, failure exposes areas that you need to 【7】. So the failure serves as a brick wall to test how you apply yourself to 【8】 your objectives and how much you want them.

There is a way to distinguish whether a failure 【9】 you to double down or walk away, says Halvorson. If, when things get rough, you remain fascinated by your goal, you should keep going. If what you’re doing is costing you too much time and energy or it’s not bringing you joy, you should give a second thought to the 【10】 of your goal and even set a new one.

【题目】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

In June, the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED, added about 1,000 words and new definitions to its website. The changes are to help users understand a(n) 【1】 of terms, some dating back many centuries. The additions include words such as “brencheese”, “deathshildy” and “hip-pop.”

The new entries are part of the company’s update to Oed.com, its 【2】online dictionary for paid members. The OED makes changes to the website four times each year.

But the latest print version has been in 【3】 since the year 2000, and may not be ready for 10 more years. That information comes from Katherine Connor Martin, who heads the company's dictionary operations in the United States.

Usually, the OED watches 【4】of a word for at least 10 years before deciding whether to add a new entry, new definition or word related to a(n) 【5】 entry, she said. This general rule, however, is sometimes not 【6】. That is what happened with “tweet,” a word that the OED added far before the 10-year mark.

Other times, the company adds words that are very old, but were not included in the dictionary in the past, "it's funny because we talk about new words, but many of the words we add are already old. It’s just that they were never in the dictionary before,” Martin told the Associated Press.

That is the reality, she said, of a(n) 【7】dictionary trying to put more than 1,000 years of English into books that already have over 855,000 entries. So, you get “brencheese,” a rarely used term for when bread and cheese are eaten together. The word dates back to the year 1665. The word “deathshildy” is from Old English. It means someone who is 【8】 of a serious crime and sentenced to death.

The website defines the term “hip-pop” for music that has 【9】 parts of hip-hop and popular music. The OED discovered the term “hip-hip pop” was used in a 1985 story from a Pennsylvania newspaper. It 【10】 that the term “hip-pop” appeared in a 1991 U.S. newspaper report about the rap artist M.C. Hammer.

【题目】WISH YOU WERE MORE CREATIVE?

I want to ask you a favor. I have a pair of pants. Tell me: How many different ways can I put a pair of pants to use? Now imagine you're an architect. Same question. Now imagine you're Bill Gates. A scuba diver. A medieval knight. You still have the pants. What alternative uses come to mind?

What you just practiced--the conscious act of "wearing" another self--is an exercise that, according to psychiatrist SriniPillay, MD, is essential to being creative.

One great irony (讽刺) about our collective addiction to creativity is that we tend to frame it in uncreative ways. That is to say, most of us marry creativity to our concept of self: Either we’re “creative” or we aren't, without much of a middle ground. "I'm just not a creative person!” a discouraged student might say in art class, while another might blame her talent at painting for her difficulties in math, making a comment "I'm very right-brained."

Dr.Pillay, an assistant professor at Harvard University, has spent years overturning these ideas. He believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to challenge the stereotyped (陈词滥调的) advice that urges you to “believe in yourself.” In fact, you should do the opposite: Believe you are someone else.

He points to a study showing the impact of stereotype on one's behavior. The authors, psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into two groups, instructing one group to think of themselves as "eccentric poets" and the other to imagine they were "rigid librarians". The researchers then presented them all with ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up with as many different uses as possible for each one. The former group came up with the widest range of ideas, whereas the latter had the fewest.

These results suggest that creativity is not an individual characteristic but a “product of context and perspective”. Everyone can be creative, as long as he or she feels like a creative person.

Dr. Pillay's work takes this a step further: He argues that simply identifying yourself as creative is less powerful than taking the brave, creative step of imagining you are somebody else. This exercise, which he calls psychological Halloweenism, refers to the conscious action of “wearing” another self. An actor may employ this technique to get into character, but anyone can use it. According to Dr. Pillay, it works because it is an act of conscious unfocus, a collection of brain regions that spring into action when you're not focused on a specific task or thought. Most people spend nearly half of their days in a state of "unfocus." This doesn't make us lazy; it makes us human.

Imagining yourself in a new situation, or an entirely new identity, never felt so productive. You’re making yourself more creative, and you're giving yourself permission to do something you'd otherwise feel guilty about.

【1】What’s the function of the questions in paragraph 1?

A.To lead in the topic.B.To make a comparison.

C.To state an opinion.D.To ask a favor.

【2】The study led by Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar proves_____

A.creativity is an individual characteristic

B.librarians are more creative than poets

C.ordinary objects can improve creativity

D.your creativity is determined by yourself

【3】According to Dr. Pillay, Halloweenism works because ______.

A.it is an act of unconscious focus

B.certain brain areas begin to act together

C.people are in a state of laziness

D.all actors employ this technique

【4】If you want to be more creative, you are supposed to _______.

A.focus on a specific taskB.believe in your own talent

C.pretend to be someone elseD.turn to be right-brained

【题目】 I travelled in Mountain Tai, I was deeply impressed with its beautiful scenery.

A. For the first time B. At first

C. It was the first time D. The first time

【题目】—Hello Jenny, can I see Ms. Lewis?

—____. I’ll tell you’re here.

A. With pleasure B. Never mind

C. You’re welcome D. Just a minute

【题目】We don't have enough books for________；some of you will have to share.

A．somebody

B．anybody

C．everybody

D．nobody

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