题目内容
opinion A. ocean B. possible C. purpose D. stomach
How to improve our life? Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They’ll say, "This is my destiny(命运).I cannot change it."
Of course not! You don’t have to suffer needlessly. Your life depends on you, not on any other external(外部的)factor.
I know a woman who says she just accepts what life gives her because she has done everything she can to improve it. Guess what her lifestyle is? She wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes back home, relaxes, chats with people, watches TV, and then goes to sleep. Next day, the same routine cycle follows.
Huh! Is this what she calls "doing her best"? She believes she has tried her best and just accepts it in her heart that this is the life that has been intended for her and that her luck can only change if God wills it. She hasn’t realized that we have to do our share of making the effort to live the life of our dreams.
Remember that you harvest what you sow. You have to get off the sofa, get your eyes off the TV screen, get your hands off the phone(unless it contributes to your success),and get your mind and body to work! Don’t expect your luck to change, unless you do something about it. If something goes wrong, don’t just regard it as a temporary setback; instead, learn your lesson, make the most of the situation, and do something to solve the problem. It’s not enough to think positively; you also have to act positively.
If someone’s life is in trouble, do you just hope and pray that things will turn out fine? Of course not! You get to do anything you can to save the person. So it is with your own life. It is not enough to hope for the best, but you have to do your best. In other words, don’t just stand(or sit)there, do something to improve your life.
【小题1】According to the woman mentioned in Para. 3, her life_________________.
| A.doesn’t need improving | B.couldn’t be improved |
| C.will be better some day | D.will be worse in the future |
| A.Positive | B.Passive | C.Colorful | D.Disturbing |
| A.Your temporary problem is not discouraging. |
| B.Your luck can be changed by your own efforts. |
| C.You can only achieve success when God wills it. |
| D.You should treat yourself in the way you treat friends. |
| A.positive thinking | B.positive action |
| C.hope for the best | D.intention to succeed |
| A.understand yourself | B.improve your life |
| C.believe in yourself | D.change your normal way |
Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It selves directly to bring about a rapid sale of goods at reasonable prices, so setting up a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at good prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps greatly to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it causes an increased need for labor, and is therefore a nice way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television program would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or subway would cost more.
And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a promise of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Besides the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for the public has the good sense not to buy the poor article more than once. If you see an article frequently advertised, it is the proof I know that the article does what is promised for it, and that it has good value.
Advertising does more for the good of the public than any other force I can think of.
There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television person declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was telling us the real difference. Of course advertising tries to persuade.
If its message were nothing but information, that would be difficult to get more people to buy, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is a bit persuasive-advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television person wants.
【小题1】By the first sentence of the passage the writer means that .
| A.he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising |
| B.everybody knows well that advertising is a waste of money |
| C.advertising costs more money than everything else |
| D.money spent on advertising is worth while |
| A.Getting greater fame. | B.Providing more jobs. |
| C.Raising living standards. | D.Reducing newspaper cost. |
| A.quite right in passing his judgment on advertising |
| B.interested in nothing but the buyer’s attention |
| C.correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information |
| D.obviously unfair in his views on advertising |
| A.advertising can seldom bring material benefit to man by providing information |
| B.advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over |
| C.there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the buyer |
| D.the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement |