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In reading the world's great literature on human excellence and personal success, I've found that to launch ourselves into a life of true success we need to satisfy one basic condition: pursue our vision with stubborn (顽强的) consistency. The biggest difference between people who succeed and those who don't is not usually talent but persistence.
On my way to work one morning, I met Rudy Ruettiger, who is now a motivational speaker. He has grown up in Joliet, listening to stories about Notre Dame and dreaming of one day playing football there. Friends told him he wasn't a good enough student to be admitted. So he gave up his dream and went to work in a power plant.
Then a friend was killed in an accident at work. Shocked, Rudy suddenly realized that life is too short not to pursue your dreams.
In 1972, at the age of 23, he enrolled at Holy Cross Junior College in South Bend, Ind. He got good enough grades to transfer to Notre Dame, where he finally made the football team as a member of the “scout team”, the players who help the team prepare for games.
Rudy was living his dream, almost. But he wasn't allowed to suit up for the games themselves. The next year, after Rudy requested it, the coach told Rudy he could put on his uniform. for the season's final game. And there he sat, on the Notre Dame bench during the game. A student started shouting, “ We want Rudy! ” Soon others joined in. Finally, at the age of 27, with 27 seconds left to play, Rudy Ruettiger was sent onto the field-and made the final tackle (阻截). So his team won the game.
When I met Rudy 17 year later, it was in the parking lot outside Notre Dame stadium (体育场), where a camera crew was filming scenes for Rudy, a motion picture about his life. His story illustrates that there is no limit to where your dreams can take you.
21. The writer believes that the key to achieving success is.
A. developing one's talent
B. seizing opportunities
C. having wide vision
D. sticking to one's goal
22. According to the passage, Rudy once gave up his dream of playing football for Notre Dame because .
A. his friend was killed there
B. his foot was injured in an accident
C. he lacked confidence in himself
D. he failed in the entrance examination
23. Rudy quit his job in the power plant because .
A. his friend encouraged him to
B. his outlook on life changed
C. he was disappointed in his future
D. he was shocked by his friend's death
24. Rudy was transferred to Notre Dame .
A. as a good student
B. as a good player
C. with the help of a coach
D. with the help of a friend
25. A camera crew was making a movie about Rudy's life because .
A. Rudy was the oldest player at Notre Dame
B. Rudy succeeded in realizing his dream
C. Rudy was the best speaker at Notre Dame
D. Rudy succeeded in developing his ability
更多“In reading the world's great literature on human excellence and personal success”相关的问题
第1题
A.Reading can help make closer relationship.
B.Reading can help the time stop.
C.Reading can help you find a topic.
D.Reading can help you know the world better.
第2题
A.Reading can help make closer relationship.
B.Reading can help the time stop.
C.Reading can help you find a topic.
D.Reading can help you know the world better.
第3题
A.Reading can help make closer relationship.
B.Reading can help the time stop.
C.Reading can help you find a topic.
D.Reading can help you know the world better.
第4题
A.Reading can help make closer relationship.
B.Reading can help the time stop.
C.Reading can help you find a topic.
D.Reading can help you know the world better.
第5题
A.some find they are fed up with undebatable world classics
B.some are addicted to mysterious puzzles
C.some go for books of the latest knowledge
D.some prefer thought-provoking books
第6题
There's been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world. None did. Reading survived; in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate than ever before—there are more and more readers, and more and more books.
The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book readers as an example. Devices like Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book.
As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are possible. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, and e-book can provide readers with an unlimited number of links: to texts, pictures, and videos. In the future, the way people write novels, history, and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past.
On the other hand, there is the danger of civilization. One twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long "digests" of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence？ You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span—that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.
In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.
In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenberg's invention of the printing press in Europe had a huge impact on civilization. Once upon a time the physical book was a challenging thing. We should remember this before we assume that technology is out to destroy traditional culture.
Which of the following paragraphs briefly reviews the historical challenges for reading？
A．Paragraph One.
B．Paragraph Two.
C．Paragraph Three.
D．Paragraph Four.
第7题
Section III Translation
Directions:
Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation
on ANSWER SHEET.
A fifth grader gets a homework assignment to select his future career path from a
list of occupations. He ticks “astronaut” but quickly adds “scientist” to the list and
selects it as well. The boy is convinced that if he reads enough, he can explore as
many careerpathsas he likes. And so he reads-everything from encyclopedias to
science fiction novels. He reads so passionately that his parents have to institute a “no
reading policy” at the dinner table.
That boy was Bill Gates, and he hasn’t stopped reading yet-not even after
becoming one of the most successful people on the planet. Nowadays, his reading
material has changed from science fiction and reference books: recently, he revealed
that he reads at least 50 nonfiction books a year. Gates chooses nonfiction titles
because they explain how the world works. “Each book opens upnewavenues of
knowledge to explore”, Gates says.
第8题
on swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.Most early courses, however, were based on information from a rather unexpected source----the Royal Air Force.
During the First World War air force tacticians had found that, when flying, a number of pilots were unable to distinguish planes seen at a distance.In the life-and-death situation of air combat, this was obviously a serious disadvantage, and the tacticians set about finding a remedy.They developed a machine called a tachistoscope (视觉记忆测试镜)，which flashes images for varying short spaces of time on a large screen.They started by flashing fairly large pictures of friendly and enemy aircraft at very slow exposures and then gradually shortened the exposure, while decreasing the size and changing the angle of the image seen.To their surprise, they found that, with training, the average person was able to distinguish almost specklike (斑点似的) representations of different planes when the images had been flashed on the screen for only one five-hundredth of a second.
Reasoning that, if the eyes could see at this incredible speed, reading speeds could obviously be dramatically improved, they decided to transfer this information to reading.Using exactly the same device, they first flashed one word in large type for as long as five seconds on a screen, gradually reducing the size of the word and shortening the length of each flash.Eventually they were flashing four words simultaneously on a screen for one five-hundredth of a second, and the subjects were still able to read them.
As a consequence of these findings, most speed reading courses have been based on this flash-card or tachistoscopic training (also known as still-screen training).
1.In the first paragraph, the writer implies but not directly states that （）.
A.a bomb exploded in the publishing house
B.readers were completely at a loss by the publication explosion
C.it might be beyond the ability of readers to read at normal speed as before with so many printed materials came out
D.people could not handle reading at the beginning of this century
2.In line 1, Para.2, the word “tactician” is used to indicate one who is skilled in （）.
A.military strategy
B.speed reading
C.driving
D.making machines
3.The reason for developing the tachistoscope is （）.
A.to train air force tacticians
B.not mentioned in the text
C.that many air force pilots failed to identify distant planes
D.the fact that many pilots had poor eyesight
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？
A.The tachistoscope is the equipment with which pilots were trained to distinguish aircrafts rapidly.
B.The tachistoscope was invented by a number of pilots.
C.The tachistoscope could be used to train speed reading.
D.The tachistoscope can flash pictures on a screen.
5.What is the author trying to tell us in this text？
A.How the tachistoscope was invented.
B.The development of speed reading.
C.The training of air force tacticians.
D.A story about the First World War.
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