【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 案。4．閱讀理解 A Harvard study of their graduates over thirty years found that there were only a small percentage (3%) of them who actually wrote down their goalsand these were the most successful! You can be certain that every one of those students had repeatedly heard the value of goal setting. Yet only 3% actually wrote down their goals consistently. Imagine what you can do if you both write down your goals and, then, focus on them consistently, until they are acplished! What is it that causes the New Year39。s Resolution Syndrome? People make resolutions, work hard at them for a few weeks, maybe even a few months, and then forget them. Next year, they make the same New Year39。s resolutions. That is the syndrome. So why do so many people do it? They may be making goals that are too global, and too unrealistic. The elephant analogy (比喻) is still the best one I know of to illustrate good goal setting. How do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time. So it is with goals. Make spoon size goals and acplish them easily. Once you39。ve mastered this, get a bigger spoon! You may have too many people in your life who consciously or subconsciously are unwilling or unable to support you to reach your goals. Surround yourself with people who want you to have what you want for yourself. Support each other and you39。ll all achieve your highest goals. We must be careful not to confuse busyness with progress. Be selective about how you use your time and what you focus on. Success often es when you know what to leave out, rather than what to include in your life. Goal setting is like the pig and chicken who were out for a walk in town early one morning. The chicken became really excited when she saw a sign that said Ham amp。 Eggs, $. She said to the pig, Look, we39。ve got double billing again. The pig grunted and said, That39。s all right for you to say. For you, it39。s all in a day39。s work. For me, it39。s total mitment. Goal setting is all in a day39。s work. Goal achievement is total mitment.（1）What can we learn from Paragraph 1? Harvard students know the importance of setting goals. down goals is unhelpful in achieving them. very small percentage of Harvard students can succeed. working on goals eventually leads to victory.（2）What can we know about New Year39。s resolutions? are really difficult to achieve. people give them up halfway. should be different from year to year. people make no effort to achieve them.（3）According to the elephant analogy, when setting goals, we should . for others39。 advice great and worthy goals a big goal into smaller pieces to the goals we set earlier（4）What does the story of the pig and chicken imply? is not built in one day. the cat is away, the mice will play. early bird catches the worm. of a feather flock together.（5）What can be the best title for this passage? only work when you do! contribute to success! to make New Year39。s resolutions for setting realistic goals【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）C（4）A（5）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，講述只有很少的人能夠堅(jiān)持寫下自己的目標(biāo)，而這部分人是最成功的，同時(shí)也說(shuō)明了實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)需要注意的幾個(gè)方面：第一，學(xué)會(huì)分解目標(biāo)；第二，找到能夠支持自己的人；第三，不要混淆忙碌與進(jìn)步；第四，目標(biāo)設(shè)定很容易，但是實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)是一個(gè)長(zhǎng)期的過(guò)程。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“A Harvard study of their graduates over thirty years found that there were only a small percentage (3%) of them who actually wrote down their goalsand these were the most successful!”可知，只有3%的人能夠?qū)懴伦约旱哪繕?biāo)，而這些人是最成功的，故可以推測(cè)出，只有不斷堅(jiān)持，朝目標(biāo)前進(jìn)的人才能成功，故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“People make resolutions, work hard at them for a few weeks, maybe even a few months, and then forget them.”可知，人們往往年初做決心，前幾周，甚至前幾個(gè)月很努力，但是之后就拋之于九霄云外，可知，很多人半途而廢，故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的How do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time. So it is with goals. Make spoon size goals and acplish them ，設(shè)置目標(biāo)跟吃大象是一樣的，把目標(biāo)分成小部分，就很容易實(shí)現(xiàn)這些目標(biāo)了，故可知，要學(xué)會(huì)分解目標(biāo)，故選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Goal setting is all in a day39。s work. Goal achievement is total mitment.”可知，設(shè)定目標(biāo)很短，但是達(dá)成目標(biāo)則需要完全的付出，根據(jù)選項(xiàng)，與A選項(xiàng)，羅馬不是一日建成的，意思符合，故選A。 （5）考查主旨大意?？v觀全文可知，本文講述只有很少的人能夠堅(jiān)持寫下自己的目標(biāo)，而這部分人是最成功的，同時(shí)也說(shuō)明了實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)需要注意的幾個(gè)方面：第一，學(xué)會(huì)分解目標(biāo)；第二，找到能夠支持自己的人；第三，不要混淆忙碌與進(jìn)步；第四，目標(biāo)設(shè)定很容易，但是實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)是一個(gè)長(zhǎng)期的過(guò)程，故選A。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷和主旨大意兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，考生需要根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall？Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists？In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway？In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand？ Let39。s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweetmeats are candy， while sweetbreads, which aren39。t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes(悖論), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them. And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don39。t fing, grocers don39。t groce, and hammers don39。t ham？If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn39。t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese so one moose, two meese? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next？ English was invented by people, not puters, and it shows the creativity of human beings. That39。s why, when stars are out, they are visible。 but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it。 but when I wind up this essay, I end it.（1）Which of the following words or expressions have the similar meaning? and oversee. a lot and quite a few. as hell and cold as hell. wise man and a wise guy.（2）What does the author probably think of English people? ....（3）What can we learn from the text?