【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 about it, no matter how wellmeaning they are. According to the new research from the University of Kansas, we absolutely should be beating ourselves up when we fail. Marketing professor Noelle Nelson and her team found that the more emotional a person39。s response is to failure, the more likely they are to achieve better results the next time they deal with a related task. The researchers carried out two experiments in which undergraduate students were required to perform specific tasks. In one experiment, they were asked to search online for a squeezer and report the lowest price they could find with the possibility of winning a $50 cash prize. However, the task was controlled, and all participants were told (by a puter) that the lowest price was $ less than their reported price. Consequently, no participant won the cash prize. When the results were announced, some participants were asked to focus on their emotional response, and others on their cognitive (認知的) response. During the next similar task, participants who focused on their emotional response to failure made more effort than those who focused on a cognitive response. Everybody has their own unique challenges, responsibilities, duties, and projects, but these findings are related to all of us. Your personal failure may be a cake that fails to rise, a presentation that goes wrong, or a deadline that gets missed—it doesn39。t matter. What matters is how you react to it. Instead of thinking about the failure, let yourself feel bad about it. Then follow this advice on how to bounce back after your failure.（1）What39。s the relationship between failure and success? promises success. is the key to success. does damage to success. failure is good for success.（2）Why does the writer support beating oneself up when failing? 39。s a wellmeaning suggestion for failure.39。s been proved by the study of a university. emotional is good for his future success. can make people less emotional about failure.（3）Which can be the best title for the passage? Failure Is a Cake That Fails to Appear Most Productive Way to Handle Any Failure Methods to Change Failure into Success Reason Why Failure Is the Mother of Success【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B 【解析】【分析】這是一篇說明文。文章向讀者傳達了失敗乃是人生不可避免的一部分，但是如何處理失敗是很重要的。每次失敗后，我們應該自責，自責能讓我們下次做得更好。 （1）推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段中的we39。re told over and over again that no great success was ever achieved without failure以及“One of life39。s most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best.（人生中很重要的一課是學會如何最好地處理失?。笨芍煤锰幚淼氖Τ晒κ呛玫?。故選D。 （2）細節(jié)理解題。由第二段中的“we absolutely should be beating ourselves up when we fail（當我們失敗的時候我們應該自責）”與“the more emotional a person39。s response is to failure, the more likely they are to achieve better results the next time they deal with a related task（一個人對失敗的情緒越大，下次他遇到相關(guān)的任務取得更好的結(jié)果的可能越大）”可知，對失敗有情緒對將來的成功是很重要的。故選C。 （3）主旨大意題。這是一篇說明文，根據(jù)文章第一段中的最后一句“One of life39。s most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best.（人生中很重要的一課是學會如何最好地處理失?。笨芍疚氖墙探o大家如何有效地面對失敗。故選B。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。涉及細節(jié)理解題，推理判斷題和主旨大意題。細節(jié)理解題要注意根據(jù)題目和文章的關(guān)鍵詞在文章中尋找答案。推理判斷題要注意聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出所需信息，主旨大意題要注意找文章的主題句或主題段落，聯(lián)系上下文，從而判斷出文章的主題。5．閱讀理解 Give yourself a test. Which way is the wind blowing? How many kinds of wildflowers can be seen from your front door? If your awareness is as sharp as it could be, you39。ll have no trouble answering these questions. Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults. A child39。s day is filled with fascination, newness and wonder. Curiosity gave us all a natural awareness. But distinctions that were sharp to us as children bee unclear。 we are numb(麻木的）to new stimulation(刺激), new ideas. Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits. The first step in awakening senses is to stop predicting what we are going to see and feel before it occurs. This blocks awareness. One chilly night when I was hiking in the Rocky Mountains with some students, I mentioned that we were going to cross a mountain stream. The students began plaining about how cold it would be. We reached the stream, and they unwillingly walked ahead. They were almost kneedeep when they realized it was a hot spring. Later they all admitted they39。d felt cold water at first. Another block to awareness is the obsession(癡迷) many of us have with naming things. I saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides, and said, a rubycrowned kinglet and checked it off. They no longer paid attention to the bird and never learned what it was doing. The pressures of time and destination are further blocks to awareness. I encountered many hikers who were headed to a distant campground with just enough time to get there before dark. It seldom occurred to them to wander a bit, to take a moment to see what39。s around them. I asked them what they39。d seen. Oh, a few birds, they said. They seemed bent on their destinations. Nature seems to unfold to people who watch and wait. Next time you take a walk, no matter where it is, take in all the sights, sounds and sensations. Wander in this frame of mind and you will open a new dimension to your life.（1）According to Paragraph 2, pared with adults, children are more . A.anxious to do wondersB.sensitive to others39。 feelingsC.likely to develop unpleasant habitsD.eager to explore the world around them（2）What idea does the author convey in Paragraph 3? A.To avoid jumping to conclusions.B.To stop plaining all the time.C.To follow the teacher39。s advice.D.To admit mistakes honestly.（3）The bird watchers39。 behavior shows that they . A.are very patient in their observationB.are really fascinated by natureC.care only about the names of birdsD.question the accuracy of the field guides（4）Why do the hikers take no notice of the surroundings during the journey? A.The natural beauty isn39。