第十五讲 解题步骤
(1)(6 min.)
The more I look around me, 1. __________ more selfemployment seems to be the way to go for many people. I'm not sure whether this is just my observation 2. __________ it's indeed a global phenomenon.
Many people lose their jobs because of the recent financial crisis. I read many stories about people with high salary who suddenly found themselves out of work and found 3. __________ difficult to get new jobs. For them, selfemployment could be the only way to go because the job market isn't as good as it 4. __________.
Many other people choose selfemployment not because of necessity 5. __________ because of opportunity. They find that selfemployment gives them more freedom and flexibility, not to mention the potentially big financial reward 6. __________ could get. I am an advocate of selfemployment and over time I become more and more convinced because of the 7. __________ I hear from people around me. I often hear about those who lose their jobs and how it could take them months to get new jobs. I imagine that if only 8. __________ people went through the path of selfemployment, I would hear less such stories.
(2)(6 min.)
(2012·长郡月考二)Most of us never realise how good we really are. The truth is 1.__________ most of us are full of goodness, full of kindness, full of love and full of joy. Most of us spend our days helping people 2.__________ need, doing good things for 3.__________ and making this world a better place. Most of us live our lives doing our best to bring joy to this world and share our love with each other. Most of us are far better 4.__________ we would ever admit. Don't deny the goodness within you. Look 5.__________ within your heart and soul, 6._ _________ notice the goodness that lies there. Share it 7.__________ you open the door for a stranger, smile at the person you pass on the street and give a compliment to a partner. Work with it as you reach out a helping hand, give someone a pat on the back and encourage someone 8.__________ is having a hard time. Use goodness to create love and joy.
(3)(6 min.)
(2012·长郡一模)The air we breathe is freely available, 1.__________ which we could not survive more than a few minutes. For the most part, air is available to everyone, and everyone needs it. Some people use the air to sustain them while seated around and feel sorry for 2.__________. 3.__________ breathe in the air and use the energy it provides to make 4.__________ magnificent life. Opportunity is in the same way; it is everywhere. It is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create success, it must be seized and acted upon in order to have value. So many people are so anxious to “get in” on a “ground floor opportunity”， as if the opportunity will do all the work 5.__________ is impossible. Just 6.__________ you need air to breathe, you need opportunity to succeed. It takes 7.__________ than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity, though. You must make use of it. That's not up to the opportunity, that's up to you. It doesn't matter what “floor” the opportunity is on, 8.__________ what matters is what you do with it.
(4)(6 min.)
The Chinese town of Yangshan, near Shanghai, has “the most delicious peaches on earth”， according to The Wall Street Journal. The problem is that their greenishwhite skin ensures that 1. __________ people in North America will ever enjoy them.
Shui mi tao or “water honey peaches”， are famous 2. __________
their large size, white flesh and juicy taste. “They are best eaten over a sink(水槽), 3. __________ avoid showering the floor with peach juice，” The Journal warns.
4. __________ this good taste, many US consumers are 5. __________ to see past their skin color. Al Courchesne, owner of Frog Hollow Farm in California, said that 6. __________ supermarkets want peaches with red skin. “The studies show that people buy fruit 7. __________
color，” he said, “and the color red produces 8. __________ expectation of sweetness in the human brain.”
(5)(6 min.)
Recent graduates in South Korea have a new career open to them — if they are willing to jump on a motorcycle 1. ______ a moment's notice and follow orders.
“Insteadmen”， 2. ______ these professionals are called in Korea, are offering 3. ______ new kind of service. They are on call to do everything from delivering coffee to cleaning up messes 4. ______ buying food. In the US, such professionals are sometimes called “handy men”．
The growing number of insteadmen in cities is a reflection of an increasingly independent South Korean society. In the past, people might have asked friends to do favours they couldn't — or wouldn't — do 5. ______. Now, they are 6. ______ likely to turn to complete strangers.
The company Anyman, for instance, has seen a 10fold increase in customers 7. ______ opening in May. Most of the time, these calls are fulfilled exactly. Sometimes, 8. ______， insteadmen refuse their mission. “I was once asked to fish out a dead, rotting cat from between two brick walls, and I politely refused.” said insteadman Cho Sanghee.
(6)(6 min.)
(2012·师大附中模拟一)As we go through life we have relationships that don't work out, jobs that just aren't right, exams that we failed, initiatives that don't succeed. The more new things we try, the 1.__________ failures we are likely to have. In fact, the only way to avoid failure is to do nothing 2.__________.
The important thing is 3.__________ we deal with failure. Experiencing failure can be a learning experience and an opportunity 4.__________ a fresh start. If you read the life stories of successful people — 5.__________ inventors, explorers, scientists or statesmen — you will find that their early careers are littered with failures. Abraham Lincoln, suffered many defeats in his career in politics 6.__________ losing the nomination for vice president in 1856 7.__________ his second run at being a U．S. Senator in 1858. Two years later he was elected president.
The important point is to use your setbacks as learning experiences and make 8.__________ stepping stones to future success. There are always positives you can take from every episode in your life.