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U7 L20 Life Is a Journey 拓展阅读材料篇目1Life is a journey, You can enjoy it in your own way. Life is as a snowflake travels from the heaven and gradually falls on the ground; Life is as a drop of water from a unknown source to the vast sea or unexpected destination. Although many could be concerned or shared, life itself quite resembles journey. Life would become new if you have a great breath of vision and regrind it as journey. And now, just join us in the beautiful journey.篇目2Life is like a Journey.Life comes in a package.This package includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to handle various situations.篇目3Life is a journey, not a destination. What matters is the scenery on the way and the mood while viewing it. Take your heart with you while making this journey.The journey of life is like a bus trip.We all know that a bus trip has its origin and its final destination. But what we cannot predict are the experiences along the way.Some people have longer journeys, while others have shorter ones.Some people are very relaxed and they can enjoy the scenery as it rolls by. Some are always crowded and must push and struggle for room, always feeling disconcerted,However, compared to those that hang from the door of the busprone to falling at any timethey feel grateful for their comparative comfort. If you want to travel in comfort and grace, you must take a seat at the first chance; therefore, everybody will fight for a seat.Some are fortunate enough to get a seat as soon as they get on the bus. Some are very unlucky, because although everyone else can get a seat, they are left standing.Sometimes other seats become vacant, while the seats immediately around you remain occupied.However just as you decide that there is a better chance of another seat becoming free and you choose to stand beside it, the seat you were originally standing beside immediately becomes vacant.In order to obtain and keep a seat, some people disregard their conscience, and will even hurt others.Some people, for one reason or another, must give up the seat they fought so hard to get.Some people devise cunning methods to try and obtain a seat; and after a long wait, they finally get a seat.But, as soon as he gets a seat, he reaches his destination.As he disembarks from the bus, he looks back at the bus and sighs, seeing the now empty seat; realizing that he should not hastily grab a seat as other people do. However, if he must make the journey again, he would still try to grab a seat as he did before; because, sometimes, if you dont grab a seat, there is hardly even any room to stand. Unless, that is, you never get on the bus, however we cannot make this decision for ourselves.The people that have arrived at their destination will leave the bus, however there are still people on the bus. And still there is hustle and bustle; people continue getting on and off the bus.Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.Do not set your goals by what other people deem important.Only you know what is best for you.Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart.Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.Do not let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future.By living your life one day at a time, you live all of the days of your life. Do not give up when you still have something to give.Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other.Do not be afraid to encounter risks.It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give love.The fastest way to lose love is hold it tightly.In addition, the best way to keep love is to give it wings.Do not dismiss your dream.To be without dream is to be without hope.To be without hope is to be without purpose.Do not run through your life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going.Life is not race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.篇目4We Are on a Journey -By Henry Van DykeWherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, all in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest; we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal. We are gaining something, or losing something, every day.Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing, for the mere advance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July. The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept the other alternative. .Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? Yes, you must be a little nearer to some port or other; for since your ship was launched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment - the sea is too deep; you could not find an anchorage if you would; there can be no pause until you come into port. 词汇探寻1.existence n.存在；生存2.tendency n.趋向，趋势3.precisely adv.精确地4.negative adj.负的；否定的；消极的5.magnetic adj.磁的，有磁性的；有吸引力的6.alternative n.取舍；选择余地7.launch vt.发动，推出；发射8.anchorage n.停泊地点；抛锚地点篇目5A Journey Called LifeLife is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are goanna get.It includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day, we learn to handle various situations.Happiness and SorrowMaterialistic happiness is short-lived, but it achieved by showing your smiles and transferring them to others can be lasting and get a certain sense of achievement. We, as a human being, should be aware of the importance of gratitude. Gratitude is the source of happiness or in other words, it is irrational to take others solicitude and love for grantedWe realize the true worth of happiness when we are in sorrow. Sorrow is basically coming out when something is out of your plate like death of a loved one, failure and despair. However, all these matters are temporary and could pass away with time going by.Failure and SuccessThere is a motto:” failure is the mother of success.” Failure is untwined with success. It helps us to touch the sky, teach us to survive and show us a specific way to handle the complicated matters we are in face with in the daily basis. Success brings in money, fame, pride and self-respect. Here it becomes very important to keep our head on shoulder.Hope and DespairHope is magic that pulls people out of the edge of despair and gives them the energy to go for a bright future. Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is beyond our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dull. So the only alternative is work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.词汇探寻1. sorrow 痛苦2. despair 绝望3. materialistic 唯物主义的4. short-lived 短暂的5. gratitude 感恩6. irrational 不理性的7. solicitude 关心8. untwined with 与紧密联系篇目6Over the years, I have discovered life is a journey, a pilgrimage, a sacred adventure. Within everyones inner solitude, there is that bright and warm hearth where the spirit dwells waiting to be roused. There are many paths to enlightenment, their teachings rich and varied offering wisdom and food for thought and everything we need for our journey to awakening lies within us. In the beginning, spirituality appears like the bud on a bloom, opening gradually, tempting us with a glimpse of its splendor and unfathomable depths. It is here we create the blueprint of our collective existence.Each of us from time to time experience crises from different life changing events and transitions, all unpredictable moments arriving and intruding into our well groomed lives. We didnt ask for this interference and we wonder why it has arrived bringing with it damage and confusion. BUT no matter what the source, each crisis has a common bonda threshold. A holy summons inviting us to cross a threshold involving both a leaving behind and a stepping toward. During these times of roadblocks, dead ends and detours, we often choose to ignore that inner calling. Transformation takes an enormous amount of trust in the voice that urges us to take note. We need to pay attention and ask ourselves what is it we are being summoned to learn? Has the time arrived to push past our comfort zone and begin the slow process of transformation? Are we ready to accept responsibility for our life choices and embark on this soulful journey? Many of us