Laziness is a state of inaction. It is something that you do, not something that you are. Being lazy means you have no to do anything. This is obvious but the mistake that many people make is themselves as someone who is lazy.
Lazy people are often seen as useless. , are they really being lazy or are they acting lazy? There is a huge difference between saying you are lazy sometimes and you are a lazy person. One is suggesting that your laziness is while the other suggests that it’s permanent. This is the myth of laziness. People who are lazy aren’t lazy; they are people who are temporarily acting that way.
So what causes a person to be inactive? The answer is a lack of goals. If you give someone a good enough to do something, he will do it. People who don’t seem to do anything just haven’t found a good enough reason to do something. Lazy students don’t study because they don’t see the in studying. For example, if you are too lazy to clean out the garage, would someone a gun to your head help you take action? The reason can be positive or negative it’s strong enough to induce(引起) action.
To motivate someone who is lazy, what you need to do is to help him find enough to work towards a certain goal.
| 小题1: | | A．motivation | B．question | C．promotion | D．courage |
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| 小题2: | | A．agreeing | B．denying | C．identifying | D．refusing |
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| 小题3: | | A．Otherwise | B．Besides | C．However | D．Therefore |
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| 小题4: | | A．correct | B．false | C．temporary | D．inspirational |
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| 小题5: | | A．simply | B．occasionally | C．often | D．hardly |
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| 小题6: | | A．excuse | B．gift | C．chance | D．purpose |
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| 小题7: | | A．point | B．success | C．situation | D．difficulty |
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| 小题8: | | A．dropping | B．pointing | C．shooting | D．hiding |
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| 小题9: | | A．as long as | B．as soon as | C．so that | D．in case |
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| 小题10: | | A．reasons | B．money | C．energy | D．Confidence |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:C
小题5:A
小题6:D
小题7:A
小题8:B
小题9:A
小题10:A |
试题分析：本文介绍了导致人变懒惰的原因是没有明确的目标，要想改变这种状态就要为他找到明确的目标。
小题1:考查名词。 Motivation动机；question问题；promotion提升，晋升；courage勇气，胆量。句意是：懒惰意思指你没有动力做事情。A选项更贴近语境，故选A。
小题2:考查词组。 Agreeing同意；denying否认；identifying识别； refusing拒绝。句意是：这是显而易见的,但很多人犯的错误是确定自己是懒惰的人。短语Identify oneself证明自己（的身份），故选C。
小题3:考查连词。 Otherwise否则，另外；Besides此外，而且；However然而； Therefore因此，所以。上句说懒惰的人看起来是没有用的，下一句是他们是真懒还是假懒呢，有上下语句可看出这里有转折的意思，故选C。
。句意是：在她居住的德国乡村没有“提供”夜校课程，所以她选择了网络学习方式。故选B。
小题4:考查形容词。Correct正确的；false错误的；temporary暂时的；inspirational鼓舞人心的。根据下半句“while the other suggests that it’s permanent”还是表明它是永久的，这有对比意为，形容词应是反义的，temporary暂时的与 permanent永久的反义词，故选C。
小题5:考查副词。 Simply简单地，仅仅；occasionally偶尔，间或；often常常；hardly几乎不，简直不。根据“This is the myth of laziness. People who are lazy aren’t lazy”和“ people who are temporarily acting that way”可知这只是懒惰的一种假象。懒惰的人不是真正的懒，只是人们短暂的表现方式，故选A。
小题6:考查名词。Excuse借口，理由；gift礼物；chance机会；purpose目的，用途。上句说导致一个人不活跃的原因是没有目标，因此在下一句中说只要给他一个足够好的目标就会做好。好的故选D。
小题7:考查名词。Point要点；success成功；situation情况；difficulty困难。句意是：懒惰的学生不学习是因为他们看不到学习的重要，四个选项中只有point与语境贴切，故选A。
小题8:考查动词。Dropping落下；pointing指向；shooting射击；hiding隐藏。句意是：例如，如果你懒得清理车库，会有人拿枪指着你的头帮你采取行动吗？四个选项中只有pointing与语境贴切，故选B。
小题9:考查连词词组。as long as只要；as soon as一...就...；so that以便，所以； in case万一，假使。句意是：可以积极或消极的原因只要是强大到足以诱导行动。故选A。
小题10:考查名词。 Reasons原因；money金钱；energy能量；Confidence信心。句意是：激励一个懒人，你需要做的就是帮他找到足够的理由朝某个目标努力。故选A。 |
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The world’s native languages are dying out at an unprecedented(空前的) rate, taking with them irreplaceable(不能替代的) knowledge about the natural world, according to a new study.
The study identified five global “hot spots” where languages are vanishing faster than anywhere else ---- eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, the US state of Oklahoma and the US Pacific Northwest. “Languages are suffering a global extinction crisis that greatly goes beyond the pace of species extinction,” linguistics(语言学的) professor David Harrison noted, who said half of the world’s 7,000 languages were expected to disappear before the end of the century.
Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed. “Most of what we know about species and ecosystems is not written down anywhere, it’s only in people’s heads,” he said. “We are seeing in front of our eyes the loss of the human knowledge base.”
Harrison was one of a team of linguists who carried out the study. The researchers traveled to Australia this year to study native languages, some of the most endangered. According to Harrison, in Australia, they were heartened to see a woman in her 80s who was one of the only three remaining speakers of the Yawuru language passing on her knowledge to schoolchildren. He said such inter-generational exchanges were the only way native languages could survive. “The children had elected to take this course, no one forced them,” he said. “When we asked them why they were learning it, they said,‘This is a dying language, we need to learn it’.” Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the Amurdag language, which had previously been thought extinct.
The researchers said all five of the hot spots identified were areas that had been successfully colonized and where a dominant language such as Spanish or English was threatening native tongues.
小题1:What does this text mainly talk about?| A．A study on native languages endangered. | | B．The knowledge of native languages. | | C．People’s efforts in saving native languages. | | D．Harrison and his study on languages. |
小题2:The underlined word“vanishing”in the second paragraph can be best replaced by .| A．developing | B．changing | C．increasing | D．Disappearing |
小题3:According to Harrison, language extinction .| A．causes the researchers lots of worries | | B．speeds up the pace of species extinction | | C．threatens the existing of Spanish and English | | D．brings about a loss of knowledge about the environment |
小题4:Which of the following can be described as good news?| A．Native languages became less endangered in Australia. | | B．A man was found with knowledge of the Amurdag language. | | C．Researchers were well received by native people in Australia. | | D．Many schoolchildren showed interest in the Yawuru language. |
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The western world has always been divided into two types of people—the cool and the uncool. It is a division that in school. The cool kids are good at .They are with the opposite sex .They are good-looking and people want to their style. They can do their homework but they don’t make a big effort. That would be cool.
The uncool kids are in the other corner of the playground. They are very bright ,but they don’t have great skills and they are at sports .When they are not programming computers or doing calculus（微积分）in their heads ,they are reading comic books and watching shows like the “X Files” .They are as the geeks.
Here’s the news. The geeks are .Make friends with them now or they will put virus in your computer and your maths homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examinations ,and they might not be too popular at university, but good degrees.
The most important of the 21st century ,computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks .Geek heroes like Bill Gates others to follow their example .Being a geek is a way of earning good money .And the creation of the Internet gave them a of their own to work and play in ,making them a global .Besides ,the effect of the geeks popular culture has started a new trend（趋势）.It is now cool to be .Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture ,in which what you know is more important than you look like.
But there are also . Geeks were often bullied or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your boss .Perhaps it is time for .
| 小题1: | | A．continues | B．makes | C．remains | D．starts |
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| 小题2: | | A．computers | B．studies | C．sports | D．maths |
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| 小题3: | | A．pleasant | B．popular | C．crazy | D．average |
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| 小题4: | | A．copy | B．advance | C．take | D．act |
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| 小题5: | | A．not | B．indeed | C．perhaps | D．actually |
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| 小题6: | | A．speaking | B．operating | C．social | D．experimental |
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| 小题7: | | A．speechless | B．sharp | C．active | D．hopeless |
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| 小题8: | | A．known | B．referred | C．thought | D．admired |
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| 小题9: | | A．taking on | B．taking up | C．taking over | D．taking in |
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| 小题10: | | A．put | B．cause | C．bring | D．serve |
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| 小题11: | | A．win | B．take | C．wish | D．finish |
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| 小题12: | | A．industry | B．discovery | C．progress | D．development |
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| 小题13: | | A．promise | B．discourage | C．demand | D．excite |
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| 小题14: | | A．chance | B．space | C．world | D．career |
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| 小题15: | | A．force | B．company | C．organization | D．department |
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| 小题17: | | A．rich | B．attractive | C．handsome | D．uncool |
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| 小题18: | | A．how | B．that | C．what | D．how much |
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| 小题19: | | A．opportunities | B．dangers | C．possibility | D．question |
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| 小题20: | | A．punishment | B．argument | C．competition | D．employment |
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To me，life without music would not be exciting.I realize that this is not true for everybody.Many people get along quite well without going to the concert，and listening to the record. But music plays an important part in everyone’s life，whether he realizes it or not.Try to imagine，for example，what films or TV plays would be like without music.Would the feelings，the moving plot，and the greatest interests，be so interesting or dramatic? I’m not sure about it.
Now we have been speaking of music in its more common meaning—the kind of music we hear in the concert hall.We discover them in our everyday life too—in the rhythm of the sea，the melody of a bird in the woods and so on.So music surely has meaning for everyone，in some way or other. And，of course，it has special meaning for those who have spent all their lives working on playing or writing music.
It is well said，“Through music a child enters a world of beauty，expresses himself from his heart，feels the joy of doing things alone，learns to take care of others，develops his mind and makes his body strong.”
小题1:From the text, we learn that many people .| A．don’t realize the importance of music | | B．get along quite well without music | | C．go to the concert instead of enjoying music | | D．think music would be less exciting than moving plot |
小题2:In the writer’s opinion，if there was no music in the films or TV plays，_______.| A．the cinema and theatre would be quiet | | B．we would lose some of the audience | | C．everything would be as exciting as before | | D．it would be hard to imagine the result |
小题3:The underlined word “melody” in the second paragraph means “______”.| A．flying | B．looking | C．singing | D．living |
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The world"s native languages are dying out at an unprecedented(空前的) rate, taking with them irreplaceable(不能替代的) knowledge about the natural world, according to a new study.
The study identified five global "hot spots" where languages are vanishing faster than anywhere else ---- eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, the US state of Oklahoma and the US Pacific Northwest. "Languages are suffering a global extinction crisis that greatly goes beyond the pace of species extinction," linguistics(语言学的) professor David Harrison noted, who said half of the world"s 7,000 languages were expected to disappear before the end of the century.
Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed. "Most of what we know about species and ecosystems is not written down anywhere, it"s only in people"s heads," he said. "We are seeing in front of our eyes the loss of the human knowledge base."
Harrison was one of a team of linguists who carried out the study. The researchers traveled to Australia this year to study native languages, some of the most endangered. According to Harrison, in Australia, they were heartened to see a woman in her 80s who was one of the only three remaining speakers of the Yawuru language passing on her knowledge to schoolchildren. He said such inter-generational exchanges were the only way native languages could survive. "The children had elected to take this course, no one forced them," he said. "When we asked them why they were learning it, they said,‘This is a dying language, we need to learn it"." Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the Amurdag language, which had previously been thought extinct.
The researchers said all five of the hot spots identified were areas that had been successfully colonized and where a dominant language such as Spanish or English was threatening native tongues.
小题1:What does this text mainly talk about?| A．A study on native languages endangered. | | B．The knowledge of native languages. | | C．People"s efforts in saving native languages | | D．Harrison and his study on languages. |
小题2:According to Harrison, language extinction .| A．causes the researchers lots of worries | | B．speeds up the pace of species extinction | | C．threatens the existing of Spanish and English | | D．brings about a loss of knowledge about the environment |
小题3:Which of the following can be described as good news?| A．Native languages became less endangered in Australia. | | B．A man was found with knowledge of the Amurdag language. | | C．Researchers were well received by native people in Australia. | | D．Many schoolchildren showed interest in the Yawuru language. |
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Why do Chinese people love hot pot so much? As the winter months begin to settle in, I find myself wondering what it is about this traditional meal, which has existed for more than 1，000 years, that makes it a Chinese food favorite．But it seems that the answer lies beyond the dish itself．
Hot pot isn"t just designed to keep you warm during the cold months; it"s also a social experience．It"s a "theater” cuisine that turns a meal into an event．There is a lot of fun for everyone to have in adding ingredients to the hot pot．
Hot pot is eaten over two to three hours．For this reason, it is often, considered an evening"s entertainment, and time to spend with friends and family．However, many westerners would be put off by the idea of other people sticking chopsticks in their food．When we come to eat at the table in the UK, we tend to have our own individual portions （份额）, although the experience is still a social one．
A similar experience to the hot pot one can be found in Korean barbecue restaurants, which let you cook your own meat．This allows people to have their meat done however they want．
For most Westerners, the idea of going to a restaurant to cook their own food is bizarre （古怪的）．But having given hot pot a go, I find it"s now one of my favorite meals in Beijing．The steam from the pot left my clothes smelling of food when I got home, but perhaps this is also part of the experience．When the chilly （刺骨的） wind is blowing outside, just grab （抓） some chopsticks, some good friends, and dig in．For me it"s like throwing a dinner party where my taste buds （味蕾） and my appetite are equally satisfied in the warm company of friends．
小题1:According to the author, hot pot is popular in China because ________．| A．it is a fun social experience | | B．it has been developing for over 1,000 years | | C．it involves many unique ingredients | | D．it keeps people warm in winter and it is creative |
小题2:We can conclude from the article that generally British people _______.| A．prefer a Korean barbecue to Chinese hot pot | | B．find it interesting to cook their own food in restaurants | | C．don"t like sharing food with others | | D．don"t mind the smell of food staying on their clothes after dinner |
小题3:The underlined word "put off" in the third paragraph probably means _____| A．excited | B．disappointed | C．puzzled | D．discouraged |
小题4:What is the tone of the article?| A．Appreciative | B．Longing | C．Humorous． | D．Serious． |
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