Question

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”——Charles C. Noble

    It’s such a simple concept, yet it’s something we don’t always do. It’s not extremely difficult to do, and yet I think it’s something that would make a world of difference in anyone's life. Break your goals into habits, and focus on putting those habits into autopilot. My belief is that having one goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals.

I try to turn my goals into habits, and in doing so, I put my goals on autopilot. Turning a goal into a habit means really focusing on it, seriously, for at least a month, to the exclusion of all else. The more you can focus on it, the more it'll be put on autopilot. Let's look at my marathon goal as an example. I was just starting out in running, and I had the brilliant idea to run a marathon within a year. But in order to achieve that goal, I broke it down into two habits:

       1. I had to make running a daily habit.

       2. I had to report to people in order to have accountability(责任) —— I did this through family, friends and coworkers, through a blog, and through a column in my local newspaper every two weeks. With this accountability, there's no way I would stop running.

      The accountability habit took a couple months, mainly because I didn't focus on it too much while I was building the running habit. But it stuck, and for that first year of running, I would report to people I knew and blog about my running every day and I would write a column every two weeks for my local paper.

       Once those two habits were firmly fixed, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot. I still had to do the work, of course, but it didn't require constant focus. And eventually, I ran the marathon. I was able to achieve this because, all year long, I had the daily running habit and daily accountability habit. I put my marathon goal into autopilot, and that made it much easier——instead of struggling with it daily for an entire year, I focused on it for one month and was able to accomplish it while focusing on new habits and goals.

1．According to the passage, we can see the key to forming a habit is            .

       A．to break the goals into habits                 B．to report to other people about your  plan

       C．to set a reasonable goal first                  D．to focus on the habit as much as possible

2．The author told people about his running in order to       .

       A．get more support                                 B．ask for their opinions

       C．carry out his plan better                        D．earn more admiration

3．What do we know about the author?

       A．He was a local athlete.                          B．He often gave people advice.

       C．He had no blogs before.                        D．He wrote for a local newspaper.

4．The passage is mainly about        .

       A．goals and habits                                   B．how to turn your goals into  habits

       C．habits and achievements                       D．how to make running a good habit

Answer 1

DCDB