In the 1950s, a female swimming athlete set a goal for herself. She decided to swim across the English Channel before she retired. If she could make it, she would be the first person in the world who did it.
On that day, she jumped into the sea without any hesitation and swam towards the opposite bank.
In the journey, she faced heavy fog, heavy rain and heavy waves. Though she was very tired, she carried on swimming.
But in the end, she gave up. And what she didn't know at the moment she gave up was that the opposite bank was only I mile away.
Later people asked her about the reason. And she said:"The reason why I gave up is that I could not see the destination which I was so close to."
Too many success stories have been lecturing us about courage and persistence(坚持). But they never told us where to find courage and persistence.
You can have courage only when you know where your goal is. You can manage to persist only when you know where your goal is, and prepare yourself well mentally(心理上).
Courage and persistence never fall from the sky. They come from weighing between input and output.
A life without goals is like a ship without a compass. It goes nowhere. There is no courage or persistence in a life without goals.
1.In paragraph 1, the underlined word "it" refers to _______.
A. being retired
B. swimming across the English Channel
C. swimming towards the bank
D. setting a goal
2.________ is not mentioned in the passage.
A. Fog
B. Waves
C. Rain
D. Wind
3.The underlined word "weighing" in paragraph 8 probably mean _______.
A. 权衡
B. 有……重
C. 称重量
D. 有分量
4.Why did the athlete give up? Because ________.
A. the bank was one mile away
B. she was too tired
C. she didn’t have courage at first
D. she thought her destination was far away
5.What can be inferred (推论) from the last sentence of the passage?
A. If you have courage and persistence, you have goals.
B. Even if you have no goals, you have courage to persist.
C. There is no courage or persistence unless you know your goals.
D. Between input and output, you must find courage and persistence.
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回答问题 阅读短文，然后根据短文内容简要回答问题。
Once a king got two nice falcons(猎鹰) from his son. He had never seen such beautiful falcons
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After several months, the king came to see how the training was going on. He found that one
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1.Where did the king get the falcons?
2.Why did the king ask the farmer to train the falcon?
3.What did the farmer do to make the falcon fly?
4.What do you think of the farmer?
5.To reach high, can we stay where we feel safe and comfortable?
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Soll is a village in the mountains in Western Austria, and a local(当地的) family opens a Hotel Post there. The hotel is clean and not expensive. From the hotel you can see the whole village, the forest and the mountains. Temperatures in summer are usually around 20℃ to 25℃ in the daytime, but much cooler in the evening.
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________________________________________________________________________
2.What can you buy at the Floating Market?
_______________________________________________________________________
3.Do you need to bring a hat in Thailand？
________________________________________________________________________
4.What are there in the north of Kauai Island ？
______________________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________________
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7.A. and B. though C. or D. because
8.A. the others B. another C. others D. other one
9.A. turned up B. came down C. went on D. got over
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