We only focus ______ our strengths so we are always moving forward.AatBinConDdown

A.can we finish it

B.we can finish it

C.could we finish it

D.we could finish it

audience. Besides its persuasive powers, eye contact helps hold listeners' interest. A successful speaker must maintain eye contact with an audience. To have good rapport (关系) with listeners, a speaker should maintain direct eye contact for at least 75 percent of the time. Some speakers focus exclusively on their notes. Others gaze over the heads of their listeners. Both are likely to lose audience interest and esteem. People who maintain eye contact while speaking, whether from a podium (演讲台) or from across the table are "regarded not only as exceptionally well-disposed by their target but also as more believable and earnest."

To show the potency of eye contact in daily life, we have only to consider how passersby behave when their glances happen to meet on the street. At one extreme are those people who feel obliged to smile when they make eye contact. At the other extreme are those who feel awkward and immediately look away. To make eye contact, it seems, is to make a certain link with someone.

Eye contact with an audience also lets a speaker know and monitor the listeners. It is, in fact, essential for analyzing an audience during a speech. Visual cues (暗示) from audience members can indicate that a speech is dragging, that the speaker is dwelling on a particular point for too long, or that a particular point requires further explanation. As we have pointed out, visual feedback from listeners should play an important role in shaping a speech as it is delivered.

This passage is mainly concerned with ______.

A．the importance of eye contact

B．the potency of nonverbal techniques

C．successful speech delivery

D．an effective way to gain visual feedbacks

l(鸡尾酒)party , say , that they are “in computers,” or “in electronic funds transfer”. the implication is that they are part of the high-tech world, Just between us, they usually aren’t. The researchers who made fundamental breakthroughs in those areas are in high-tech business. The rest of us are__(71)__of their work. We use computers and other new technology components to develop our products or to organize our affairs. Because we go about this work in teams and projects and other tightly knit working groups(紧密联系在一起的工作小组),we are mostly in the human communication business. Our successes stem from good human interactions by all participants in the effort, and our failures stem from poor human interactions. The main reason we tend to focus on the __(72)__rather than the human side of the work is not because it’s more__(73)__, but because it’s easier to do .Getting the new disk drive installed is positively trivial compared to figuring out why Horace is in a blue funk(恐惧)or why Susan is dissatisfied with the company after only a few months. Human interactions are complicated and never very crisp(干脆的，干净利落的)and clean in their effects, but they matter more than any other aspect of the work. If you find yourself concentrating on the __(74)__rather than the __(75)__,you’re like the vaudeville character(杂耍人物) who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, “The light is better there!”. (71)

A.creators

B.innovators

C.appliers

D.inventors

A typical lion tamer (驯兽师) in people’s mind is an entertainer holding a whip (鞭子)and a chair. The whip get all of the attention, but it’s mostly for show. In reality, it’s the chair that does the important work. When a lion tamer holds a chair in front of the lion’s face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time. With its focus divided, the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next. When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.How often do you find yourself in the same position as the lion？ How often do you have something you want to achiever (e,g. lose weight, start a business, travel more )–only to end up confused by all of the options in front of you and never make progress？ This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is best, the people who want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information. The end result is that we feel like we can’t focus or that we’re focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving. It doesn’t have to be that way. Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: All you need to do is focus on one thing. You just need to get started. Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people. If you have somewhere you want to go, something you want to accomplish, someone you want to become--take immediate action. If you’re clear about where you want to go, the rest of the world will either help you get there or get out the way.

(1)、Why does the lion tamer use a chair？ ()

A、To trick the lion.

B、To show off his skill .

C、To get ready for a fight.

D、To entertain the audience.

(2)、In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair？ ()

A、They feel puzzled over choices.

B、They hold on to the wrong things.

C、They find it hard to make changes.

D、They have to do something for show.

(3)、What is the author’s attitude towards the experts mentioned in paragraph 3？ ()

A、Tolerant

B、Doubtful

C、Respectful

D、Supportive

(4)、When the world is “waving a chair in your face”, you’re advised to_____. ()

A、wait for a better chance

B、break your old habits

C、make a quick decision

D、ask for clear guidance

(5)、In the fifth paragraph, the word “accomplish” means ______. ()

A、achieve.

B、abuse.

C、comfort.

D、delete.

as the interpersonal and the interpersonal process by means of which original, high quality, and genuinely significant products are developed. In dealing with young children, the focus should be on the process, which is seen as the basis of creative potential. When trying to understand this process, it is helpful to consider Guilford's differentiation between convergent and divergent thought. Problems associated with divergent thought often have one correct solution. But problems associated with divergent thought require the problem-solver to generate many solutions, a few of which will be novel, of high quality, and workable -- hence creative.

For a proper understanding of children's creativity, one must distinguish creativity from intelligence and talent. Ward expressed concern about whether creativity in young children could be differentiated from other cognitive abilities. More recent studies have shown that components of creative potential can indeed be distinguished from intelligence. The term "gifted" is often used to imply high intelligence. But Wallach has argued that intelligence and creativity are independent of each other, and a highly creative child may or may not be highly intelligent.

Creativity goes beyond possession and use of artistic talent. In this context, talent refers to the possession of a high degree of technical skill in a specialized area. Thus an artist may have wonderful technical skills, but may not succeed in evoking the emotional response that makes the viewer feel that a painting, for example, is unique. It is important to keep in mind that children's creativity is evidenced not only in music, art, or writing, but also in science, social studies and other areas.

Most measures of children's creativity have focused on ideational fluency. Ideational fluency tasks require children to generate as many responses as they can to a particular stimulus, as is done in brainstorming. Ideational fluency is generally considered to be a critical feature of the creative process. Children's response may be either popular or original, with the latter considered evidence of creative potential. Thus when we ask four-year-olds to tell us "all the things they can think of red," we find that children not only list wagons, apples, and cardinals, but also children pox and cold hands.

For young children, the focus of creativity should remain on process: the generation of ideas. Adult acceptance of multiple ideas in a non-evaluative atmosphere will help children generate more ideas or move to the next stage, which is self-evaluation. As children develop the ability for self-evaluation, issues of quality and the generation of products become more important. The emphasis at this stage should be on self-evaluation rather than evaluation by others, for these children are exploiting their abilities to generate and evaluate hypothesis and to revise their ideas based on that evaluation. Evaluation by others and criteria for genuinely significant products should be used only with older adolescents or adults.

The passage suggests that creativity in children is mostly closely related ______.

A．talent

B．intelligence

C．a higher degree of technical skills

D．the process of developing original ideas

People are indulging in an illusion whenever they find themselves explaining at a cocktail(鸡尾酒)party，say, that the are “in computers，”or“ in telecommunications，”or “in electronic funds transfer”. The implication is that they are part of the high-tech world. Just between us，they usually aren't. The researchers who made fundamental breakthroughs in those areas are in a high-tech business. The rest of us are （71）of their work. We use computers and other new technology components to develop our products or to

organize our affairs. Because we go about this work in teams and projects and other tightly knit working

group（紧密联系在一起的工作小组），we are mostly in the human communication business. Our successes stem from good human

interactions by all participants in the effort，and our failures stem from poor human interactions.

The main reason we tend to focus on the（72）rather than the human side of work is not

because it’s more (73)，but because it's easier to do. Getting the new disk drive installed

is positively trivial compared to

figurine out why Horace is in a blue funk(恐惧）or why Susan is dissatisfied with the company aver only a few months. Human interactions are complicated

and never very crisp（干脆的，干净利落的）and clean in their effects, but they matter more than any other aspect of the work.

If you find yourself concentrating on the（74）rather than the（75）．you're like the vaudeville character （杂耍人物）who loses his Keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because，as he explains，“The light is better there!”

(71)

A. creators

B. innovators

C.appliers

D. inventors

many kinds in the world is how to divide limited resources among countries. In the international development community, the conventional wisdom has been that the 2 billion people living in poor countries could never expect to reach the standard of living that most of us in North America enjoy, simply because the world does not contain enough iron ore, protein, petroleum, and so on①. At the same time, we in the United States have continued to pursue super affluence as though there were no limits on how much we could consume. We make up 6 percent of the world's people; yet we consume one-third of the world's resources.

As long as the resources we consumed each year came primarily from within our own boundaries, this was largely an internal matter. But as our resources come more and more from the outside world, "outsiders'' are going to have some stay over the rate at which and terms under which we consume. We will no longer be able to think in terms of "our" resources and "their" resources, but only of common resources.

As Americans consuming such a disproportionate share of the world's resources, we have to question whether or not we can continue our pursuit of super affluence in a world of scarcity. We are now reaching the point where we must carefully examine the presumed link between our level of well-being and the level of material goods consumed. If you have only one crust of bread, then an additional crust of bread doesn't make that much different. In the eyes of most of the world today, Americans have their loaf of bread and are asking for still more. People elsewhere are beginning to ask why. This is the question we're going to have to answer, whether we're trying to persuade countries to step up their exports of oil to us or trying to convince them that we ought to be permitted to maintain our share of the world fish catch②.

The prospect of a scarcity of, and competition for, the world's resources require that we reexamine the way in which we relate to the rest of the world. It means we find ways of cutting back on resource consumption that is dependent on the resources and cooperation of other countries. We cannot expect people in these countries to concern themselves with our worsening energy and food shortages unless we demonstrate some concern for the hunger, illiteracy and disease that are diminishing life for them③.

The writer warns Americans that ______.

A．their excessive consumption has caused world resource exhaustion

B．they are confronted with the problem of how to obtain more material goods

C．their unfair shale of the world's resources should give way to proper division among countries

D．they have to discard their cars for lack of fossil fuel in the world

internationally top-ranked universities, and in the percentage of overseas students it attracts each year. These are significant achievements, too often overlooked. They were not quickly or easily won. In an increasingly competitive world, they can be quickly and permanently lost.

Within the UK, universities deliver huge benefits, particularly well documented in science, technology and medicine, the greatest of which may be the flow of graduates into the workforce. The most remarked-upon, however, is the rapid expansion of our role as innovators with a significant economic impact. In recent years, high-technology and biotechnology clusters have sprung up around a number of research-intensive universities.

Focusing only on what is most easily measured or o immediate economic impact is to miss the deeper point, of course. Through the arts, humanities and social sciences, this country’s universities contribute broadly to society, adding greatly to human well-being. Although universities are offering their best help in the economic downturn, as institutions we are above all for the students of today who will be the workforce, citizens and leaders of tomorrow; the discoveries that will transform. the future; the scholarly insights that will change the way the world thinks and acts.

What has made the UK system so successful？ I point to the quality of water we provide, the talent we attract, and the diversity of strengths that we offer. The diversity of UK universities is partially reflected in our differences in age, size, history, governance, in the makeup of our student bodies, course offerings, the kinds of research we do, the combination of teaching and research, and the balance of academic and professional or pre-professional training.

1.According to the passage, the number of the internationally top-ranked universities in the UK is only less than that of ______ in the world.

A. Japan

B. France

C. Germany

D. the United States

2.According to the author, the most important contribution made by UK universities to society is _______.

A. the quality graduates

B. scientific discoveries

C. technological improvements

D. biotechnological achievementA B C D

3.According to the author, universities should pay more attention to _______.

A. measures with economic impact

B. current issues

C. people and discoveries that will change the future

D. economic downturnA B C D

4.According to the author, UK university system is very successful, because they offer quality education, ________.

A. and attract different kinds of professors and students

B. and all universities are world famous

C. and focus on what is most easily measured

D. attract the talent, and have many strengthsA B C D

5.The passage is probably written by a UK_______.

A. government official

B. educational expert

C. salesman

D. economist