Patience is a quality of heart that can be greatly enhanced with deliberate practice. An effective way that I have found to deepen my own patience is to create actual practice periods periods of time that I set up in my mind to practice the art of patience. Life itself becomes a classroom, and the curriculum is patience. You can start with as little as five minutes and build up your capacity for patience, over time. Start by saying to yourself, Okay, for the next five minutes I won’t allow myself to be bothered by anything. I'll be patient. What you’ll discover is truly amazing. Your intention to be patient, especially if you know it's only for a short while, immediately strengthens your capacity for patience. Patience is one of those special qualities where success feeds on itself.
Once you reach little milestones five minutes of successful patience you’ll begin to see that you do, indeed, have the capacity to be patient, even for longer periods of time. Over time, you may even become a patient person.
Being patient will help you to keep your perspective. You’ll see even a difficult situation, say your present challenge, isn't life or death but simply a minor obstacle that must be dealt with. Without patience, the same scenario can become a major emergency complete with yelling, frustration, hurt feelings, and high blood pressure. It's really not worth all that. Whether you’re needing to deal with children, your boss, or a difficult person or situation if you don’t want to sweathe small stuff, improving your patience level isa great way to start.
(1)The best title for this selection is ________.
A、The Art of Patience
B、Patience and Perspective
C、Become More Patient
D、The Effective Ways to Patience
(2)Which of the following is not TRUE?
A、Creating actual practice periods is the only effective way to deepen patience.
B、Our intention may strengthen our capacity for patience.
C、Success feeds on patience.
D、We can deepen our patience by practice.
(3)According to the passage, if we want to be patient, ________.
A、we should have 5-minute practice everyday
B、we should reach little milestones—five minutes of successful patience first
C、we could create actual practice periods and practice
D、We should be perspective
(4)With patience, ________.
A、we will see a difficult situation as death
B、we will see a difficulty situation as a minor obstacle
C、we can deal with children, your boss, or a difficult person or situation easily
D、we would never be hurt
(5)Without patience, when we see the same difficult situation, _______.
A、we will cry
B、we regard it as a major emergency
C、we will sweat
D、we will improve our patience level
(A) commitment
(B) requirement
(C) opportunity
(D) participation
正确答案:A
解答参考:A make a commitment to sb.:向……承诺;make a commitment to do sth.:承诺做……事。【译文】在我看来,我们没有必要向他们作出那样的承诺。
A. that
B. whether
C. which
D. when
A. It's five blocks away
B. Walking through the wood
C. It's a twenty-minute walk
D. Half an hour if we drive fast
听力原文:W: How are you getting on with your experiment?
M: In spite of my continuous failure, I have already made some progress.
What can we learn about the man's enperiment ?
A.It is going on well.
B.It has failed several times.
C.It will soon be finished.
D.It may have to be stopped.
Soonvip更新更快 出分更稳 助橙ACT 小程序1 / 5Exam:Soonvip - 58Time:2001-1Version:DEMOPART 1 - 英语Passage ITake Me Outside to the Ball GameMy sons are fortunate to have grown up in a city where major league baseball is played. When I was a child, it was a five-hour, once-a-summer trek, to the nearest major league ballpark. My sons have to endure only the twenty-minute ride to the stadium that we make five or six times a year. But I think my experience needless to say was richer than theirs. The stadium I remember had a natural grass field and seats piled up high and close to the players so we could hear them mutter. Domed and bowl-shaped, my sons sit in a park where the players meander about on artificial turf that is not natural grass, and where we sat at such a distance that the game appears to be only a rumor. Fans should not have to endure these errors in aesthetics and architecture?First, the turf should go. There should be nothing artificial about baseball, least of all the grass. The odd green shade of artificial turf is a poor counterfeit of grass green. When my sons and I visit the ballpark we are essential on a picnic. Why gather around a carpet, in which we can do just as well at home, to enjoy our hot dogs, peanuts, and sodas? (10)Second, the dome should go. While it's true that the dome blocks out rain, it also blocks out the sun and sky. Baseball is a pastoral sport, where players lope across the field, where a strong player can smack a ball seemingly to the sky. Under a dome, the game is hermetically sealed, the players' skins look sickly, and the hit ball is in danger of banging a rafter. Finally, I want my sons to be closer to the game. I don't want us to be forced to the edge, of a bowled stadium, like the remnants of unwanted cereal. I want us to hear the ball slapping the catcher's mitt, and the shortstop yelling "I got it !" when the ball is popped up in the infield. Let us study an outfielders face, without the aid of binoculars. When he's sprinting toward the infield to catch a short fly ball.Baseball is a game as much about atmosphere as athletics. Architects need to remember stadiums are playgrounds, not office buildings. If architects play fair, they will remember that, and my grandchildren will be thankful when they take their seats in the bleachers.1.A. NO CHANGEB. child, it was a five-hour, once-a-summer trekC. child, it was a five-hour once-a-s、ummer, trekD. child it was a five-hour once-a-summer trek,Answer: B2.A. NO CHANGEB. experience wasC. experience, needless to say, wasD. experience can be considered to beAnswer: B3.A. NO CHANGEB. My sons sit, in a park, domed and bowl-shapedC. My sons in a park sit domed and bowl-shapedD. 、My sons sit in a domed, bowl-shaped parkAnswer: D4.A. NO CHANGEB. that is not real,C. that's not grassD. OMIT the underlined portion.Answer: D5.A. NO CHANGEB. would setC. SitD. were sittingAnswer: CPART 2 - 数学1. The lowest temperature on a winter morning was -8°F. Later
Text 4 Humor, which ought to give rise to only the most light-hearted and ** feelings, can often stir up vehemence and animosity. Evidently it is dearer to us than we realize. Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humour. A man will admit to being a coward or a liar or a thief or a poor mechanic or a bad swimmer, but tell him he as a dreadful sense of humour and you might as well have slandered his mother. Even if he is civilized enough to pretend to make light of your statement, he will still secretly believe that he has not only a good sense of humour but are superior to most. He has, in other words, a completely blind spot on the subject. This is all the more surprising when you consider that not one man in ten million can give you any kind of intelligent answer as to what humour is or why he laughs.
One day when I was about twelve years old, it occurred to me to wonder about the phenomenon of laughter. At first I thought it is easy enough to see what I laugh at and why I am amused, but why at such times do I open my mouth and exhale in jerking gasps and wrinkle up my eyes and throw back my head and halloo like an animal? Why do I not instead rap four times on the top of my head or whistle or whirl about?
That was over twenty years ago and I am still wondering, except that I now no longer even take my first assumption for granted, I no longer clearly understand why I laugh at what amuses me nor why things are amusing. I have illustrious company in my confusion, of course, Many of the great minds of history have brought their power of concentration to bear on the mystery of humour, and, to date, their conclusions are so contradictory and ephemeral that they cannot possibly be classified as scientific.
Many definitions of the comic are incomplete and many are simply rewording of things we already know. Aristotle, for example, defined the ridiculous as that which is incongruous but represents neither **er nor pain. But that seems to me to be a most inadequate sort of observation, for of at this minute I insert here the word rutabagas, I have introduced something in congruous, something not funny. Of course, it must be admitted that Aristotle did not claim that every painless in congruity is ridiculous but as soon as we have gone as far as this admission, we begin to see that we have come to grips with a ghost when we think have it pinned, it suddenly appears behind us, mocking us.
An all-embracing definition of humour has been attempted by many philosophers, but no definition, no formula had ever been devised that is entirely satisfactory. Aristotle's definition has come to be known loosely as the "disappointment" theory, or the "frustrated expectation", but he also, discussed another theory borrowed in part from Plato which states that the pleasure we derive in laughing is an enjoyment of the misfortune of others, due to a momentary feeling of superiority or gratified vanity in appreciation of the fact that we ourselves are not in the observed predicament.
第36题:Which of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph?
[A] People don't like to be considered as one with no sense of humour.
[B] People will give you a satisfactory answer to what humour is.
[C] People would like to be a liar or a coward.
[D] People can make light of other's comment on their sense of humour.
A It will cost about eight percent more than initially projected ;
B We will need another four thousand dollars to cover the cost ;
C It's going to cost about five thousand more to complete the first order
I have no idea()to make my speech interesting.
A. how
B. why
C. when
Which statement is TRUE concerning apogean tides ________.
A.They occur only at quadrature
B.They occur when the Moon is nearest the Earth
C.They cause diurnal tides to become mixed
D.They have a decreased range from normal