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       Confidence: you’ve either got it or you haven’t, right? Wrong. Most people learn confidence as they go through life.

       Even if you are shaking like a leaf on the inside, you’ll make a lasting impression if you can come across as confident. Here are some confidence-building tips.

       Fake(假装) it! If you can pretend that you feel confident when you don’t and keep on doing so, your fake confidence will soon turn into real confidence. It only takes a few repetitions of an activity for it to become a habit―so get in the habit of         .

       Think it. For an instant encouragement to yourself-esteem (自尊心), recall three things that give you positive emotions. It could be a great compliment somebody paid you, a special time when you felt happy and popular, or when you really excelled (胜过别人) at something. Bringing them to mind will help you to feel good instantly―and when you feel good, you have greater confidence.

       Focus it. Difficult situations, such as interviews or new jobs, can make you feel shy. If you’re feeling anxious about yourself, stop thinking about yourself and focus on something else. It could be that you focus on something normal, like the view out of the window, or that you pay more attention to the task at hand―getting the job! Either way, you'll feel less awkward.

       Talk it. If you keep telling yourself that you're not good at something, you’ll start to believe it. Next time you blame yourself, ask yourself whether you'd talk to your friends like that. So quit being negative and start recognizing and appreciating the things you are good at.

       Walk it. Great posture(姿势) can signal great confidence. Walk with a purposeful stride(大踏步), walk with your back straight and with your head held up high!

 

76.What is the best title of the passage ?  (Please answer within 8 words)

                                                                               

                                                                               

77.Please fill in the blank in the 3rd paragraph with proper words to complete the sentence. 

    (Please answer within 6 words.)

                                                                               

                                                                               

78.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

       Stop finding fault with yourself and try to think more about your advantages.

                                                                               

                                                                               

79.Which of the tips given in the passage will work best with you? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)

                                                                               

                                                                               

80.Please translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.

                                                                               

The Linguistic Habits of a New Generation

       In the year of 1914 a young girl named Monica Baldwin entered a convent(女修道院),remaining there until 1941 when she returned to the outer world. During these twenty-eight years wars and revolutions had come and gone in Europe. Her uncle, Stanley Baldwin, had led his country for some time. Technical developments had changed the conditions of everyday life almost beyond recognitions, but all these events had left as a matter of fact untouched the small religious community to which she had belonged. In 1949 Miss Baldwin published her impressions of those bewildering(令人困惑的)years of her return to a world in which the motorcar had replaced the horse and carriage and where respectable women showed their legs and painted their faces.

       Yet it was not only these odd sights that surprised her, for she was more puzzled by what she heard. During a railway journey the term “luggage in advance” meant nothing to her, so in desperation she asked the porter to do as he thought best. Reading the newspapers made her feel very stupid, because the writers of reviews and leading articles used words and phrases such as Jazz, Hollywood, Cocktail and Isolationism. These and many others were quite incomprehensible to Miss Baldwin, who was really bewildered when friends said: “It’s your funeral or Believe it or not.” This is a rare and valuable reminder to the rest of us that the English language does not stand still. All language changes over a period of time for reasons which are imperfectly understood. Or rather since speech is really a form of human activity, it is more exact to say that each successive generation behaves linguistically in a slightly different manner from its predecessors(前辈,祖先). In his teens the young man likes to show how up-to-date he is by the use of the latest slang(俚语), but as the years go by some of his slang becomes standard usage and in any case he slowly grows less receptive(乐于接受的)to linguistic novelties(新颖,新奇),so that by the time he reaches his forties he will probably be unware that some of the expressions and pronunciations now being used were frowned upon by his own parents. In this respect language is a little like fashions in people’s dress. The informal clothes of one generation become the everyday wear of the next, and just as young doctors and bank clerks nowadays go about their business in sports jackets, they are allowed into their normal vocabulary expressions which were once limited to slang and familiar conversation.

 

71.Miss Baldwin found the world totally changed because          .

       A.she had worked for a religious community for a long time

       B.she had been cut off from the rest of the world for many years

       C.the community where she lived had been in war for many years

       D.there had been too many technical developments

72.During a railway journey Miss Baldwin          .

       A.found the porter’s words hard to understand

       B.found her luggage too heavy to carry

       C.did not know how to talk with the porter

       D.had to ask the porter to look after her luggage

73.Young people like to use the latest slang because          .

       A.they feel it is easier to use

       B.they believe it will soon become standard usage

       C.they want to show they have caught up with the time

       D.they find it more powerful in expressing feelings

74.Miss Baldwin’s experience shows us that          .

       A.the English language has not changed much

       B.the English language has entirely changed

       C.language doesn’t change at all in the religious world

       D.language changes with the passage of time

75.By the time a man is forty, he will          .

       A.be speaking the same language as his parents do

       B.have changed his way of speaking

       C.not use the slang he liked to use when young

       D.be using less new slang in speech and writing

 

       Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.

The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens(奖券)-some rocks, for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.

In the world of monkeys, grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.

The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

 

66.Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are    .

       A.more serious about what they get

       B.attentive to researchers’ instructions

       C.nice in both appearance and behaviors

       D.more ready to help others than their male companions

67.The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that_______.

       A.monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows

       B.feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature

       C.monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other

       D.no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings

68.When one monkey received a grape for free, the other would          .

       A.not be willing to hand over her token

       B.shake her hands and get angry

       C.have to exchange her token for the cucumber

       D.refuse to accept the cucumber

69.Which of the following conclusions is TRUE according to the passage?

       A.Human beings’ feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys.

       B.In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.

       C.Co-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.

       D.Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness dating from 35 million years ago.

70.What can we learn about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?

       A.They can be trained to develop social senses.

       B.They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.

       C.They may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.

       D.They feel angry when they receive small rewards.

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