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?The journey of a thousand miles begins and ends with one step” — Lao Tzu. This is a quote I picked up a few years ago and it is one of my mottos.
I was a(n)
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writer. I had a blog on my coaching website, but I
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updated it, so I had few readers. Then in 2017, I
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a new project called The Quotable Coach. Since then, I’ve sent out five
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quotes with reflections and exercises every single week, and I now have 1,200
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having signed up to get these straight to their email in box. Each quote is 100 - 200 words long,
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I’m writing 500 - 1,000 words per week. That might not sound
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impressive but this small, consistent effort over the course of two years has given me a huge
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with an archive（存档）of over 500 quotes, and a book of 365 of the
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quotes that抯 now available on Amazon. Three years ago, I couldn抰
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writing a whole book. But today, I抦 a published author.
ade
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you too want to write a book and you never
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, writing 200 words per day will give you over 72,000 words after a year. That’s a(n)
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novel. It does take a lot of time to achieve a
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result but a “little and often” approach will get you there sooner than you might
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.
If you抮e unwilling to spend that amount of time, then here抯 ita prospect（远景） to
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: time marches on whether we want it to or not, and you will get nowhere. In fact, you’ve
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had dreams to do something for years. If you’ve made no progress in the
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years, it is because you keep waiting for the right
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to take big action, which hasn’t ever come about. So perhaps it’s time to take the small, daily
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that will help you get to your goal.
1. A. unknown
B. good
C. free
D. normal
2. A. usually
B. often
C. always
D seldom
3. A. started
B. showed
C. supposed
D. planned
4. A. unique
B. simple
C. new
D. common
5. A. fans
B. readers
C. partners
D. supporters
6. A. then
B. if
C. but
D. so
7. A. perfectly
B. completely
C. especially
D. generally
8. A. website
B. business
C. question
D. chance
9. A. shortest
B. longest
C. biggest
D. best
10. A. forget
B. imagine
C. ignore
D. avoid
11. A. Though
B. Since
C. If
D. Because
12. A. leave out
B. give up
C. hold on
D. take off
13. A. favorite
B. interesting
C. famous
D. whole
14. A. right
B. funny
C. powerful
D. clear
15. A. guess
B. think
C. care
D. notice
16. A. see
B. measure
C. ask
D. recall
17. A. exactly
B. partly
C. probably
D. hardly
18. A. future
B. past
C. later
D. final
19. A. theory
B. ability
C. effort
D. moment
20. A. step
B. thing
C. route
D. advice
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Daddy and Mummy, many of us are using Twitter to thumb rides (示意请求搭便车), and not just to school. It’s
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to be refused when you ask a friend for a ride. But with Twitter, you just look for someone
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the same way.
It may sound
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, so many teens stay within their own social
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to find rides and don’t
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beyond friends on Twitter like me, but actually, stranger danger is less of a(n)
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.
The digital connection of young people is really
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, because younger generations grow up posting things online — files, photos, music, etc, so we’ve been very used to
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. The sharing economy allows people to
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more goods and services using technology and even to share costs. And that technology, for me, is what the car was for my mom, a gateway to more
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. The symbol of freedom isn’t the car any more because there’s technology out there
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you to a car.
30 years ago, eight in ten American 18-year-olds had a driver’s license,
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six in ten today. So it’s not that
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that on my 16th birthday I wasn’t rushing to get a license but an iPhone.
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means being disconnected from our technology, and that’s a(n)
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. So if we could sit in the passenger seat and still be connected, that’s going to be a
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.
Another plus is that ride sharing
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something much bigger than trying to save money. I see it as evidence that people still
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on each other. My generation shares their cars and apartments in the way that neighbors used to share cups and sugar. For the system to
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, some of us still need our own cars. After I get my own
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of the silver Super Beetle (甲壳虫), you can find me on Twitter.
1. A. strange
B. awkward
C. proud
D. confusing
2. A. living
B. working
C. heading
D. returning
3. A. risky
B. exciting
C. embarrassing
D. encouraging
4. A. lines
B. media
C. circles
D. clubs
5. A. turn around
B. travel away
C. take over
D. branch out
6. A. enemy
B. advantage
C. concern
D. result
7. A. disappointing
B. key
C. expensive
D. necessary
8. A. sharing
B. riding
C. traveling
D. inventing
9. A. buy
B. afford
C. create
D. access
10. A. success
B. freedom
C. attention
D. popularity
11. A. pushing
B. contributing
C. passing
D. connecting
12. A. compared to
B. leading to
C. resulting in
D. letting alone
13. A. believable
B. common
C. surprising
D. possible
14. A. Studying
B. Surfing
C. Leaving
D. Driving
15. A. effect
B. negative
C. benefit
D. prize
16. A. plus
B. reason
C. cause
D. bonus
17. A. fights
B. proves
C. refuses
D. represents
18. A. depend
B. feed
C. carry
D. call
19. A. begin
B. stop
C. work
D. improve
20. A. idea
B. version
C. dream
D. room