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How to Get What I Want?
There’s an expression: “What you see is what you get.” My grandfather used to say: “If you looked at a tree long enough, it will move.” We see what we want to see. Psychologists tell us that nothing controls our lives more than our self-image. We live like the person we see in the mirror. We are what we think we are. If you don’t think you’ll be successful, you won’t. You can’t be it if you can’t see it. Your life is limited to your vision. If you want to change your life, you must change your vision of your life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not that famous in 1976 when he met with a newspaper reporter. The reporter asked Schwarzenegger: “Now that you’ve retired from bodybuilding, what do you plan to do next?” Schwarzenegger answered very calmly and confidently: “I’m going to be the No. 1 movie star in Hollywood.” The reporter was shocked and amused at Schwarzenegger’s plan. At that time, it was very hard to imagine how this muscle-bound bodybuilder, who was not a professional actor and who spoke poor English with a strong Austrian accent, could ever hope to be Hollywood’s No. 1 movie star!
So when the reporter asked Schwarzenegger how he planned to make his dream come true, Schwarzenegger said: “I’ll do it the same way I became the No. 1 bodybuilder in the world. What I do was create a vision of who I want to be, and then I start living like that person in my mind as if it were already true.” Sounds almost childishly simple, doesn’t it? But I worked! Schwarzenegger became the No. 1 highest paid movie star in Hollywood. Remember: “If you can see it, you can be it.”
There’s a successful businessman who often wears a shirt with these words on it: “Don’t just pursue your dreams. Chase down and tackle! ” you only get one life to live, so why not live the best life possible? So you can be fully satisfied at what you see and get.
1.What did Arnold Schwarzenegger do before he became a Hollywood star?
A. He worked for a newspaper.
B. He was a man working on bodybuilding.
C. He worked in a small film company.
D. He was a businessman.
2.Why was it hard for the reporter to believe that Schwarzenegger would become a star one day?
A. Because he was not famous.
B. Because he was not professional and spoke poor English.
C. Because he was good at nothing except bodybuilding.
D. Because he only spoke English fluently.
3.What did Schwarzenegger plan to do to make his Hollywood star dream come true?
A. He continued to build his body.
B. He went to make more movies.
C. He lived a life like a movie star.
D. He tried his best to meet the movie directors.
4.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Have a dream and make it come true.
B. Stop your dream and find realistic things to do.
C. You can just daydream alone.
D. There’s nothing to do in the world but dream.
How to Get What I Want?
There’s an expression: “What you see is what you get.” My grandfather used to say: “If you looked at a tree long enough, it will move.” We see what we want to see. Psychologists tell us that nothing controls our lives more than our self-image. We live like the person we see in the mirror. We are what we think we are. If you don’t think you’ll be successful, you won’t. You can’t be it if you can’t see it. Your life is limited to your vision. If you want to change your life, you must change your vision of your life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not that famous in 1976 when he met with a newspaper reporter. The reporter asked Schwarzenegger: “Now that you’ve retired from bodybuilding, what do you plan to do next?” Schwarzenegger answered very calmly and confidently: “I’m going to be the No. 1 movie star in Hollywood.” The reporter was shocked and amused at Schwarzenegger’s plan. At that time, it was very hard to imagine how this muscle-bound bodybuilder, who was not a professional actor and who spoke poor English with a strong Austrian accent, could ever hope to be Hollywood’s No. 1 movie star!
So when the reporter asked Schwarzenegger how he planned to make his dream come true, Schwarzenegger said: “I’ll do it the same way I became the No. 1 bodybuilder in the world. What I do was create a vision of who I want to be, and then I start living like that person in my mind as if it were already true.” Sounds almost childishly simple, doesn’t it? But I worked! Schwarzenegger became the No.1 highest paid movie star in Hollywood. Remember: “If you can see it, you can be it.”
There’s a successful businessman who often wears a shirt with these words on it: “Don’t just pursue your dreams. Chase down and tackle! ” you only get one life to live, so why not live the best life possible? So you can be fully satisfied at what you see and get.
57. What did Arnold Schwarzenegger do before he became a Hollywood star?
A. He worked for a newspaper.
B. He was a man working on bodybuilding.
C. He worked in a small film company.
D. He was a businessman.
58. Why was it hard for the reporter to believe that Schwarzenegger would become a star one day?
A. Because he was not famous.
B. Because he was not professional and spoke poor English.
C. Because he was good at nothing except bodybuilding.
D. Because he only spoke English fluently.
59. What did Schwarzenegger plan to do to make his Hollywood star dream come true?
A. He continued to build his body.
B. He went to make more movies.
C. He lived a life like a movie star.
D. He tried his best to meet the movie directors.
60.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Have a dream and make it come true.
B. Stop your dream and find realistic things to do.
C. You can just daydream alone.
D. There’s nothing to do in the world but dream.
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These days we are all conditioned to accept newness, whatever it costs. Very soon, there is no doubt that Apple's tablet (平板电脑) will seem as a vital tool of modern living to us as sewing machine did to our grandparents. At least, it will until someone produces an even smarter, thinner and more essential tablet, which, if recent history is any guide, will be in approximately six months' time. Turn your back for a moment and you find that every electronic item in your possession is as old as a tombstone. Why should you care if people laugh just because you use an old mobile phone? But try getting the thing repaired when it goes wrong. It's like walking into a pub and asking for an orange juice. You will be made to feel like some sort of time-traveler from the 1970s. "Why not buy a new one?" you will get asked.
And so the mountain of electrical rubbish grows. An average British person was believed to get rid of quite a number of electronic goods in a lifetime. They weighed three tons, stood 7 feet high, and included five fridges, six microwaves, seven PCs, six TVs, 12 kettles, 35 mobile phones and so on. Even then, the calculation seemed to be conservative. Only 35 mobiles in a lifetime? The huge number of electronic items now regularly thrown away by British families is clearly one big problem. But this has other consequences. It contributes greatly to the uneasy feeling that modem technology is going by faster than we can keep up. By the time I've learnt how to use a tool it's already broken or lost. I've lost count of the number of TV remote-controls that I've bought, mislaid and replaced without working out what most of the buttons did.
And the technology changes so unbelievably fast. It was less than years ago that I spotted an energetic businessman friend pulling what seemed to be either a large container or a small nuclear bomb on wheels through a railway station. I asked. "What have you got in there? Your money or your wife?" "Neither," he replied, with the satisfied look of a man who knew he was keeping pace with the latest technology, no matter how ridiculous he looked. "This is what everyone will have soon—even you. It's called a mobile telephone."
I don't feel sorry for the pace of change. On the contrary, I'm amazed by those high-tech designers who can somehow fit a camera, music-player, computer and phone into a plastic box no bigger than a packet of cigarette. If those geniuses could also find a way to keep the underground trains running on the first snowy day of winter, they would be making real progress for human beings. What I do regret, however, is that so many household items fall behind so soon. My parents bought a wooden wireless radio in 1947, the year they were married. In 1973, the year I went to university, it was still working. It sat in the kitchen like an old friend—which, in a way, it was. It certainly spoke to us more than we spoke to each other on some mornings. When my mum replaced it with a new-style radio that could also play cassette-tapes, I felt a real sense of loss.
Such is the over-excited change of 21st-century technology that there's no time to satisfy our emotional needs. Even if Apple's new products turn out to be the most significant tablets I very much doubt if they will resist this trend.
1.When you try getting an old mobile phone repaired, ____.
A. you are travelling through time B. you are thought to be out of date
C. you will find everything wrong D. you have got to buy a new one
2.Throwing away so much electronic rubbish makes the writer feel quite _____.
A. lost and upset B. unbelievably fast
C. broken or lost D. regularly wasteful
3.The example of the businessman implies that____.
A. the businessman mastered the latest technology
B. mobile phones used to be quite big just years ago
C. the businessman was a very ridiculous person
D. the writer failed to follow modern technology
4.The passage is organized in the pattern of ____.
A. time and events B. comparison and contrast
C. cause and effect D. examples and analysis
5.Which of the following is conveyed in the passage?
A. The fast pace of change brings us no good.
B. We have to keep up with new technology.
C. Household items should be upgraded quickly.
D. We should hold on for new technology to last.
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