I was sitting in the surgical waiting area at the hospital waiting for word of my wife's operation. The small room was filled with other families and friends, who were ___36___ waiting to hear how their loved ones were doing.

There was a young boy sitting quietly in the ___37___ . He held a small box of ___38___ in one hand and a tablet(写字板) in the other. Every so often he'd place the tablet on his lap and draw something. As the hours passed I began to see the room almost ___39___ . And there was a strange silence.

"Daddy, when is Mommy going home?" the young boy asked, breaking the ___40___.

"Tomorrow." his father replied. The boy picked up his crayons and ___41___ something on the tablet.

I ___42___ him as he moved his feet back and forth, looking up at the ceiling and then toward the sunshine-filled window. "When's ___43___, Daddy?" he asked. His father ___44___ him over to sit by him. "Come, ___45___ here next to me," he said with a gentle tone in his voice.

___46___ his things, the little boy walked slowly to his father's side from the corner.The man ___47___ out and held his son by his shoulder.

"There are three days in life. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. One is over and done, one we live in, the other we ___48___ . We can't live in yesterday, but if we are happy enough today, we will be even happier tomorrow," he said in an attempt to ___49___ the boy.

The little boy looked at him for a moment and said, "If Mommy is going home tomorrow, I'll be ___50___. So, I want it to be tomorrow already, Daddy."

Now hanging on every word of this ___51___ , I leaned forward to hear his response. It was ___52___.

"Son, the one great thing about today is once it ___53___, it is already almost tomorrow."

I thought about how ___54___ it was. Even in my adult life, I still live waiting for what tomorrow may ___55___. Now I know that it is already "almost tomorrow".

1.                A．eagerly         B．patiently        C．happily   D．curiously

 

2.                A．chair           B．corner         C．distance  D．shadow

 

3.                A．gifts           B．toys            C．chalks    D．crayons

 

4.                A．dark           B．full            C．empty    D．clean

 

5.                A．promise        B．rule            C．record   D．silence

 

6.                A．wrote          B．drew           C．printed   D．carved

 

7.                A．followed        B．found          C．watched  D．caught

 

8.                A．today          B．yesterday       C．future    D．tomorrow

 

9.                A．knocked        B．ordered        C．called    D．pulled

 

10.               A．stand          B．sit             C．lie   D．sleep

 

11.               A．gathering       B．forgetting       C．saving D．choosing

 

12.               A．got            B．took           C．set   D．reached

 

13.               A．spend          B．waste          C．kill   D．expect

 

14.               A．frighten        B．satisfy          C．persuade  D．warn

 

15.               A．happier        B．calmer         C．smarter   D．sadder

 

16.               A．story          B．argument       C．conversation   D．discussion

 

17.               A．humorous      B．silly            C．positive   D．perfect

 

18.               A．ends           B．starts          C．passes D．lasts

 

19.               A．meaningful      B．important       C．interesting D．fantastic

 

20.               A．happen        B．come          C．bring D．need

 

 

A. Set Career Goals

B. Conduct Research

C. Know Your Strengths

D. Decide Your Values

E. Get Some Experience

F. Find the Right Atmosphere

Tips for Successful Career Planning

    Before we start Career Planning with anything, there are pretty a few points related to career planning that we need to look into. Consider these few easy points to help you choose what your plan of action should be towards shaping your future successfully.

1.________

    Simply put: what’s important to you? Do you value freedom? Do you like independence? Or working as a member of a team? Do you like structure? Or lack of structure? Working a lot of hours? Or working flexible hours? Do you want a job with a considerable paycheck? Or a job that provides significance to your life? These are all critical questions that you must be able to answer because they will affect both your short and long-term happiness.

2.________

    Too often people choose the wrong careers because they don’t know the variety of jobs that exist within their field of study. Time spent properly studying the profession that you intend to undertake, and the field you wish to enter, is vital. Part of this study should include conducting informational interviews with people who do what you would like to do for a living, visiting websites that contain blogs that are written by people in your elected field, and reading employment magazines that contain stories about the movers and shakers in your industry.

3.________

    When choosing a career, think the sort of environment that you feel most joyful in. Are you the kind of person who works better with people or with objects? Do you prefer motion and activity, or calm and quiet? You’re more likely to do well in your career when you are in a comfortable environment.

4.________

    Build up a roadmap for your job and career achievement. A main part of career planning is setting short-term (in the coming year) and long-term (beyond a year) career and job aims. Once you begin this process, another part of career planning becomes reviewing and adjusting those aims as your career plans improvement or change — and developing new aims once you complete your earlier one.

5.­________

    Simply put: there is no alternate for experience. You need to get as much of it as rapidly as you can. Interning is a win-win plan for you and a prospective employer because they get free labor, and you get valuable experience. Without this experience, you remain idealistic if not unrealistic about the true-to-life rigors of the profession, and of the industry you want to work in. Gaining experience will help to prove your interests and pursuits, or help to re-direct them.

    These simple steps can help you get the maximum understanding with respect to how to start career planning ahead of time as to what can be a good career option for you and how you can go about it in the best possible way. Best of luck in all of your career efforts!

 

The Price of a Dream

I grew up poor, living with my wonderful mother. We had little money but plenty of love and attention.  I was   36   and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still   37   a dream.

My dream was to be a sportsman.   38   I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field.  I was also   39  . My high-school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who not only believed in me, but taught me  40  to believe in myself. He   41  me the difference between having a dream and realizing the dream. One particular   42   with Coach Jarvis changed my life forever.

It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend recommended (推荐) me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket—money for a new bike and new clothes, and the   43   of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to   44   summer baseball to deal with the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing. 

When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as   45   as I expected him to be.  “You have your whole life to work,” he said.  “Your playing days are limited. You can’t   46   to waste them.” I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the   47   that would explain   48   him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his   49   in me.

“How much are you going to make at this job, son?” he asked. “Three twenty-five an hour,” I replied.

“Well,” he asked, “is $3.25 an hour the   50   of a dream?”

That simple question made it   51   to me the difference between   52   something right now and following a dream. I   53   myself to sports that summer, and within the year I was   54   by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was   55   a $20,000 contract. In 2000, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

1.A. happy              B. polite      C. shy          D. honest

2.A. lose               B. have        C. make         D. need

3.A. By the time        B. The time    C. At one time  D. At a time

4.A. right              B. popular     C. lucky        D. confident

5.A. how                B. why         C. when         D. whether

6.A. gave               B. taught      C. brought      D. asked

7.A. accident           B. matter      C. problem      D. experience

8.A. aim                B. idea        C. start        D. purpose

9.A. keep up            B. put up      C. give up      D. pick up

10.A. mad               B. happy       C. frightened   D. shameful

11.A. adopt             B. afford      C. affect       D. effect

12.A. answers           B. excuses     C. words        D. ways

13.A. for               B. to          C. on           D. in

14.A. sadness           B. regret      C. hopelessness D. disappointment

15.A. source            B. prize       C. price        D. allowance

16.A. direct            B. clear       C. clean        D. straight

17.A. wanting           B. changing    C. dreaming     D. choosing

18.A. provided          B. devoted     C. headed       D. imagined

19.A. worked            B. mentioned   C. fired        D. hired

20.A. paid              B. got         C. offered      D. signed

 

Currently，many American women are still faced with the _____ of choosing between work and family commitments.

A．desperation        B．confusion          C．dilemma          D．concern

 

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