科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
(2007年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语(全国Ⅱ))C
Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.
Thirty years have passed, but Odland can’t get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman’s kind reaction (反应) . She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Odland. “It’s OK. It wasn’t your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO (总裁) with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.
Odland isn’t the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It’s hard to get a dozen CEO’s to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.
Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could but this place and fire you,” or“I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character(人品) than about their wealth and Power.
The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called, Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.
“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person,” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rode to someone cleaning the tables.”
49. What happened after Odland dropped the ice cream onto the woman’s dress?
A. He was fired. B. He was blamed.
C. The woman comforted him. D. The woman left the restaurant at once.
50. Odland leaned one of his life lessons from ________.
A. his experience as a waiter. B. the advice given by the CEOs
C. an article in Fortune D. an interesting best-selling book
51. According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about __________.
A. Fortune 500 companies B. the Management Rules
C. Swanson’s book D. the Waiter Rule
52. From the text can learn that __________.
A. one should be nicer to important people B. CEOs often show their power before others
C. one should respect others no matter who they are
D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010-2011吉林省延吉市汪清六中高一下期末考试英语试卷 题型:阅读理解
You have the ability to decide whether you are happy or not. Happiness is a choice.
You can’t depend on someone else to make you happy. That is a lesson I learned early in my marriage. I realized that I couldn’t rely on my husband as my source of happiness. I learned that my happiness depended on myself and not my husband’s actions. I learned that you have to choose to be happy.
You can choose your emotions. True happiness comes from within, and it can’t be forced by outside force. So how do you choose happiness? The same way, you choose to smile or choose to wear a certain outfit(一套衣服). You choose it because that’s what you want to experience in you life.
You want to buy a new pair of shoes so you choose a pair that you like and feels good. You wouldn’t buy a pair of shoes that you don’t like or that doesn’t fit well, right? So why do we keep choosing emotions and feelings that don’t make us feel good?
Choosing to be happy after you realize your anger has shown up (or even choosing to be calm) can be beneficial. We choose our feelings; no one else can do that for us. If we let others get to us, influence our emotions — we are giving them power over us. When others cause us anger or pain, we are giving them our power.
We need to keep our feelings in check and not to react(反应) automatically to what is thrown at us. We need to think our actions out instead of just reacting to what someone says or does.
Remember that we can always choose happiness. At first it will be difficult to just switch(使转变)your thoughts and feelings from anger, self-doubt, or fear to joy and happiness. But it is only a thought away. Don’t dwell on(细想) what happens to you unnecessarily but realize what is causing you to feel that way. Realize that thoughts, feelings and emotions can change. Then move on and choose to be happy.
【小题1】 What’s the best title of this passage?
A.Pretend to Be Happy |
B.Choose Your Emotions |
C.Choose to Be Happy |
D.Find Happiness |
A.one can’t depend on someone else to make himself or herself happy |
B.balancing the relationship between husband and wife is an art |
C.she can depend on her husband to find happiness |
D.happiness can be influenced by outside force |
A.To offer advice on how to choose comfortable shoes. |
B.To use it as an example to illustrate(阐述)her point of view. |
C.To compare choosing shoes and choosing an outfit. |
D.To help move to the next paragraph easily. |
A.let others control our feelings |
B.respond immediately to others’ words |
C.hold back our feelings properly |
D.pay more attention to words than actions |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010-2011学年江西省南昌市高三10月月考英语卷 题型:阅读理解
A few years ago, I took a sightseeing trip to Washington, D.C.Standing outside the Ronald Reagan Center, I heard a voice say, “Can you help me?” When I turned around, I saw an elderly blind woman with her hand extended.In a natural reflex (反应), I reached into my pocket, pulled out all of my loose change and placed it on her hand without even looking at her.I was annoyed at being bothered by a beggar.But the blind woman smiled and said, “I don’t want your money.I just need help finding the post office.”
In an instant, I realized what I had done.I judged another person simply for what I assumed she had to be.I hated what I saw in myself.This incident re-awakened my belief in humility(谦恭), even though I’d lost it for a moment.
The thing I had forgotten about myself is that I am an immigrant.I left Honduras and arrived in the U.S.at the age of 15.I started my new life with two suitcases, my brother and sister, and a strong, serious-minded mother.Through the years, I have been a dishwasher, mechanic and pizza delivery driver among many other humble jobs, and eventually I became a network engineer.
In my own life, I have experienced many open acts of prejudice (偏见).I remember a time, at age 17 ----- I worked as a waiter, and I heard a father tell his little boy that if he did not do well in school, he would end up like me.I have also witnessed the same treatment of my family and friends, so I know what it’s like, and I should have known better.
But now, living in my American middle-class lifestyle, it is too easy to forget my past, to forget who I am and where I have been, and to lose sight of where I want to be going.That blind woman on the streets of Washington, D.C., cured me of my blindness.She reminded me of my belief in humility and to always keep my eyes and heart open.By the way, I helped that lady to the post office.And in writing this essay, I hope to thank her for the priceless lesson.
We can learn from the first two paragraphs that __________ .
A.the author regretted his act of prejudice
B.the blind woman needed the money badly
C.the author was as poor as the blind woman
D.the author was a native American
【小题2】According to Paragraph 4, hearing the father’s words, the author was probably _____ .
A.rather hurt B.very excited C.deeply moved D.greatly inspired
【小题3】According to the passage, the author probably agrees that one should ________ .
A.be nice to the elderly and the disabled
B.try to experience different kinds of life
C.treat others equally with love and respect
D.think about one’s past as often as possible
【小题4】Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A.Learn from your past
B.How my dream comes true
C.A belief that will never change
D.A priceless lesson in the street
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:
单词
1. These stores like ______( 展示) their goods in large windows.
2. You break the law if you drive without a driving _______( 执照)。
3. When you buy something from a shop , don’t forget to ask for a ______( 收据)。
4.We arrived at our __________( 目的地), tired and hungry.
5.There are many very _________( 给人深刻印象) buildings in the city.
6.Trolleybuses follow certain ______( 路线) every day to pick up passengers.
7.Will it be _________( 方便) for you to start work tomorrow ?
8.Columbus discovered America but didn’t _______( 探索) the new continent.
9.She ________ ( 反应) angrily to what he had said.
10. There are no simple _______( 解决的办法) to the problem of overpopulation.
11.All speeches were _______( 限制) to 10 minutes in the meeting.
12.The hotel p_______ a shoes –cleaning service for its residents.
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