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用心 爱心 专心1 20122012 高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练 江苏专用 高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练 江苏专用 专题专题 3 3 任务型阅读任务型阅读 1010 25 分钟 A 请认真阅读下列短文 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格中填入最适当的单词 每空 格 1 个单词 Everyone needs a break and vacations are not meant for serious study Instead they re a great way to take a break and enjoy a good book The Spring Festival is coming up so this is the perfect time to discuss some great English language literature to take on a long train journey or while you re hanging out with the family Before getting into the recommendations we need to determine your English reading comprehension level so you don t pick a book which is so challenging that it s stressful or so simple that it s boring If you re at the beginner level there are two options reading a children s book or reading a book that you ve read in Chinese translation This will help you get over any unfamiliar words or phrases since you re already familiar with the story If you re at the intermediate level popular books like pop fiction mysteries and thrillers are good options as they ll be guaranteed page turners and that will increase the possibility of your getting all the way through the book For advanced readers science fiction classic works of literature or contemporary prize winners Booker Nobel Pulitzer are good options The most important thing is to pick a book that you re really interested in When I pick up a new book in Chinese the first few chapters are always really hard to get through as I have to get accustomed to the way the individual author uses the language But after the first few chapters things get a lot easier especially if I get involved in the story Some of my favorite Chinese language eye candy are books that are series like Brothers by Yu Hua or The 用心 爱心 专心2 Dancer by Hai Yan I like them because there s always a lot of action and story development to keep me involved which helps me make it through those first few chapters Another great way to keep yourself motivated over the holiday is to find a friend who s interested in reading the same book You can make goals that you both want to achieve and discuss plot lines or vocabulary issues with each other by SMS or e mail I m currently doing that with my friend Laura We ve been doing this since we were classmates in Chinese at college Some quick recommendations Harry Potter start with the first book and go on from there the Narnia series anything by US writer Michael Crichton or British writer Agatha Christie and if you like horror US writer Stephen King is always unusual and fun But really you should just find a topic or author that you re interested in and the rest will go from there Happy reading from 21st21st CenturyCentury January 21 2009 TitleEnjoy English language literature on vacation Theme Find a good book to read on your journey to a 1 place 2 of proper books Beginners may pick a children s book or a book whose story is 3 to them Poplar books might make it 4 for intermediate level readers to read them from cover to cover Science fiction classic works of literature or contemporary prize winners may be 5 for advanced readers Ways to keep up your 6 Choose a book that is interesting enough to 7 you in the story and help get through some 用心 爱心 专心3 for reading difficult chapters Read along with a friend a book you both feel interested in and 8 views on plot lines or vocabulary to achieve your common goals Books 9 Harry Potter series Narnia series Works by Michael Crichton Works by Agatha Christie 10 fiction by Stephen King B Ambition is a necessary quality in life It is the force which drives us on to use whatever talent we have got If we haven t got some degree of ambition these talents will not be used for our own and other s benefit We must continually want to be better than we are Without ambition we are just jellyfish that flop through life We only react to events we don t try to control them Ambition however can have several defects 用心 爱心 专心4 First of all it can be unrealistic We may not be able to see the limits of our own abilities so we do ambitious things that are completely beyond us Our career masters can see our good qualities and our limitations objectively They may tell us that we haven t the ability to deal with people and would make good businessmen We refuse to take their evaluation We keep on trying Many years and many disappointments later we are forced to accept their judgment But what a waste of time our ill founded ambition has caused us Secondly our ambition can be too concentrated We devote our attention to one narrow aim such as getting distinctions in our science subjects Everything that may draw us away from this aim is cut out of our lives In the end we get our distinctions But what damage we have caused ourselves in the process We are isolated beings who only care about a particular examination And we probably won t make good scientists We lack the breadth of view necessary for success in higher studies Thirdly our ambition can be limited to lifeless objectives We want to gain money or power or membership of some circles Persons who feel inferior try to make up by seeking the respect of others through possessions of these artificial signs of worth Fourthly our ambition may be self centered Instead of directing some of our ambition towards community improvement we may exploit members of the community in the interests of self advancements In later life we may be ambitious for the success of our children but we regard this success as only a further mark of our own success Ambition is necessary in the lives of individuals necessary for their own improvement and for the improvement of the community in which they live But like all blind forces it must be directed if it is not to cause disaster It must be tightly controlled by the head and the heart Otherwise ambition may demand too high a price in terms of human qualities TitleAmbition 用心 爱心 专心5 MeritWith an ambition in our heart we re always trying our best to u