What’s the most important thing for you
to have in your life? Somebody mentions（提到） hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.
If you arrange the 26 English letters
alphabetically(按字母表的顺序)and
use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…,
you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge:
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love:12+15+22+5=54, and luck : 12+21+3+11=47,
a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or
prayer(祈祷)? They can’t , either.
Then what else? Don’t be worried．You can always find an
answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things
or doing things, or your attitude(态度).Yes, attitude is the word． See for yourself:
attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.
Different attitudes lead to different
courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that
one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.
When you change your manner and
became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In
the same way, if you take a positive (积极地) attitude towards failure(失败),you’ll find it’s also
rewarding though it has caused you losses.
1.What is the mark of
the word “money”?
A.
54 B.
72 C.
96 D. 100
2.In the writer’s
opinion, what is the most important thing in a person’s life?
A. Hard-work.
B. Knowledge. C. Money. D.
Attitude.
3.According to the passage,
if you meet with problems, the best way out is to _______.
A. ask for help from
others B. say your prayers to God
C. change your
attitude D. try
maths-solving methods (方法)
4.From the passage we
can learn that ______.
A. different attitudes come from
different courses of life
B. mathematics can solve every
problem easily in our daily life
C. failure sometimes can bring you
good if you take a positive attitude
D. none of the English words except
“attitude” equals to 100 or more
