What is the toughest barricade between Jack and Rose’s love affair？（)

to live, and you can see that by contrasting what lives there with what lives in the Arctic.

your company, you need to have pride, passion and belief. Among these success factors, the key factor - if we had to choose一would have to be Belief.

①It all starts with a thought.

Why is belief a key success factor？ It is because when you think hard enough and you yeam for the results of success - it becomes a belief. What happens next？ Well, when you believe hard enough it becomes a conviction. When you are convicted it starts a fire in your heart and fuels a positive attitude. That positive atitude drives your action. When you act upon conviction and positive attitude it is almost always success.

②Feel it in your heart.

The key success factor一belief has started a chain reaction for you to succeed in your career whatever that aim may be- a promotion or a smooth completion of a project. When you have that belief, feel it in your heart. It makes you tnuly know what you want. When you know what you want, know that you will act upon it. Do not fear failure. If you tnuly believe in +98 what you want then there is no need to fear failure. The risks of failure will always be there,but failure doesn't exist for someone who doesn't give up.

③Act upon that belief.

How else does the key success factor . - belief functions？ When belief transforms into conviction it becomes tough to resist action. Act upon the career dreams you set for yourself.

The toughest part of any success is this key success factor - belief. Seeding that thought,and that belief in the kind of success you define for yourself. When you are able to do it, it becomes a very smooth process. Yes, there will be hard work but that hard work seems effortless when fueled by conviction.

16.According to the passage, if you want to be successful in your company you need to have（）.

A.pride

B.passion

C.belief

D.all the above

17.（）is the key factor for career success, according to the author.

A.A good thought

B.A strong belief

C.A positive attitude

D.A practical action

18.According to the author, when you believe hard enough it becomes （）.

A.a conviction

B.a fear

C.an attitude

D.a success

19.Why does the author advise us not to fear the failure？ （）

A.Because you can truly believe in what you want in career

B.Because the risks of failure will always be existing

C.Because failure exists even when we don't give up

D.Because you can succeed in career with aims

20.What would be the toughest part of any success, according to the author？（）

A.The immediate action with career planning.

B.The clear thought about your career.

C.The strong belief in your career.

D.The hard work in your career.

to live.

A、produces

B、manufactures

C、does

D、makes

A．Because the Sydney-to-Melbourne race is 875 kilometers long .

B．Because the Sydney-to-Melbourne race is a harsh test of endurance for the world’s top athletes.

C．Because the Sydney-to-Melbourne race is held in Sydney.

D．Because the Sydney-to-Melbourne race is held by the United Nations.

A．toughest marathon events in the world

B．the 875-kilometer annual Australian race

C．a route from Sydney to Melbourne

D．a harsh test of endurance

s listened to Bush slog(艰难行进) through his familiar pep talk(鼓舞士气的讲话) last Thursday night, the party faithfully knew they were anything but united. Over the last year, they ejected a majority leader, quarreled over morality and spending, and openly criticized the president on Iraq, port security and a Supreme Court pick.

For five years nobody needed to explain the word "united" to Republicans; it was their biggest strength. The president handed his agenda to Congress and the party leaders delivered the votes. They twisted the arms of small-government conservatives to pass education reforms and Medicare drug benefits. They held their ranks together even as the Iraq occupation was losing supports in 2004. And they picked up seats in two election cycles. But now that company has fallen apart. Members of Congress, tired of being taken for granted by a bossy White House, have lost faith in the president's politican touch.

The stress is starting to show. Republicans are beginning to look and sound like their own caricature(漫画)of the Democrats: disorganized, off message and unsure of their identity. Fearful of defeat in November, GOP candidates are uncertain how to pull themselves together in the eight months left before the elections. The toughest question: whether to run, as they have in the past, as Bush Republicans, or to push the, president out of their campaigns. "What I've tried to tell people is that a political storm is gathering, and if we don't do something to stop it, we'll be in the minority a year from now," says Rep. Ray La Hood from Illinois. "But some people still don't get it."

The president won't have an easy time persuading Republicans to stick with him. Second-term presidents often suffer a six-year slump, losing seats for their party at this point. Bush has actually been lucky in one respect. He held his party together longer than most two-term presidents. Johnson kept control for just eight months until he suffered defeat on the issue of home rule for the District of Columbia in 1965, when Democrats took him on—and won.

Some candidates are happy to stand beside Bush, as long as nobody actually sees them together. Locked in a tight race for re-election, Sen. Mike DeWine chose not to accompany Bush on one trip to his home state of Ohio last month. A week later he attended a private fund-raiser with the president in Cincinnati—out of sight of photographers and reporters.

While listening to Bush's pep talk, the Republicans______.

A．were inspired by the president to hold together

B．lost interest in the frequently heard content

C．disagreed with the president on his slogan

D．felt impatient with the slow speech

a good job. Young people in their 20s express dissatisfaction that all the good jobs have been taken by those in their 40s. People in their 40s, trapped in the middle groups of the workforce, complain about waiting for their elders to. make room for them at the top. Older employees worry about being forced out of the job market prematurely by younger people willing to work at entry-level wages. It is not a pretty picture.

But I do not buy it. In my view, differences between generations are not a problem but an opportunity—if you remember to apply some basic principles of self-marketing. Most of us learned from Marketing 101 textbooks that there are four phases in the life cycle of a product or brand. The names may differ, but essentially the four phases are Introduction, Growth, Maturity and Decline. As a manager of high-profile athletes for more than 30 years, I know that these four phases certainly apply to the career and marketability of an athlete.

An athlete's introduction or start-up phase is when he or she starts competing, does well and captures the attention of people in the sport. Introduction turns into the growth phase when the athlete goes from being a promising performer to an established star. That's when everybody wants a piece of the athlete's time and he must stay focused on his primary talent and not get distracted by side issues.

For an athlete, the toughest thing about the mature phase may simply be recognizing that he or she is in it. If you're marketing a bar of soap it is easy to tell if the product is mature. It is there in the stagnant or shrinking sales figures. It is different with athletes. Not only do they think the growth phase will never end, but they often deny that there is any decrease in their athletic skills or marketability, no matter what the numbers say.

The decline phase for an athlete may sound harsh, but it doesn't have to be if he or she thinks of it as a reflective phase. In this phase an athlete can have tremendous future as a legendary figure who functions as an ambassador for his or her sport. If you substitute "employee" for "athlete" in these examples, these four phases apply to any individual's career.

I genuinely believe that whenever people face a career crisis, a big reason is because they are "out of phase." I have always been a tremendous advocate of recruiting older workers. With the massive downsizing of corporate America, there are tens of thousands of talented men and women over the age of 50 who feel shut out of the work-place. To me, these people are a gold mine—not because they are available but rather because they possess the qualities that employees in the introduction and growth phases lack, namely wisdom and experience. And since many of them received generous early-retirement packages, money is not their sole motivation. In other words, they are affordable.

If I were marketing myself in the mature phase, I'd focus on these qualities. Wisdom, experience and affordability make up a potent package. But you cannot do that unless you first recognize and fully appreciate the phase you are in.

What can be concluded from the passage？

A．Most young people cannot find a job if they don't study the four phase theory.

B．Young people with good jobs have studied the four phase theory.

C．Job seekers should fully understand the phase they are in.

D．Older employees will be forced out of job market by the young.

listened to Bush slog(艰难行进) through his familiar pep talk(鼓舞干气的讲话) last Thursday night, the party faithfully knew they were anything but united. Over the last year, they ejected a majority leader, quarreled over morality and spending, and openly criticized the president on Iraq, port security and a Supreme Court pick.

For five years nobody needed to explain the word "united" to Republicans; it was their biggest strength. The president handed his agenda to Congress and the party leaders delivered the votes. They twisted the arms of small-government conservatives to pass education reforms and Medicare drug benefits. They held their ranks together even as the Iraq occupation was losing supports in 2004. And they picked up seats in two election cycles. But now that company has fallen apart. Members of Congress, tired of being taken for granted by a bossy White House, have lost faith in the president's political touch.

The stress is starting to show. Republicans are beginning to look and sound like their own caricature(漫画) of the Democrats: disorganized, off message and unsure of their identity. Fearful of defeat in November, GOP candidates are uncertain how to pull themselves together in the eight months left before the elections. The toughest question: whether to run, as they have in the past, as Bush Republicans, or to push the president out of their campaigns. "What I've tried to tell people is that a political storm is gathering, and if we don't do something to stop it, we'll be in the minority a year from now," says Rep. Ray LaHood from Illinois. "But some people still don't get it."

The president won't have an easy time persuading Republicans to stick with him. Second-term presidents often suffer a six-year slump, losing seats for their party at this point. Bush has actually been lucky in one respect. He held his party together longer than most two-term presidents. Johnson kept control for just eight months until he suffered defeat on the issue of home rule for the District of Columbia in 1965, when Democrats took him on—and won.

Some candidates are happy to stand beside Bush, as long as nobody actually sees them together. Locked in a tight race for re-election, Sen. Mike DeWine chose not to accompany Bush on one trip to his home state of Ohio last month. A week later he attended a private fund-raiser with the president in Cincinnati—out of sight of photographers and reporters.

While listening to Bush's pep talk, the Republicans______.

A．were inspired by the president to hold together

B．lost interest in the frequently heard content

C．disagreed with the president on his slogan

D．felt impatient with the slow speech