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　　Pele is the most famous football player in Brazil. He is also one of the best loved footballers all over the world. Pele's 1 began when he was a small boy. His father watched him kicking a football in the streets, and he encouraged him to 2 a local team. By the time Pele was thirteen, he played regularly in local matches. One day he 3 nine goals in a single match, and his father wrote to Santos, a very important football 4 in Brazil.“Please come and watch my son, Pele,”he wrote.“I think he is going to be a famous player.”Then the man from Santos team came to watch Pele. He was so 5 by what he saw that he ran onto the football field to ask Pele to join Santos at once.

　　In 1958, Pele was 6 to play for Brazil in the World Cup. 7 he was only sixteen, he was the best player on the field. In the last three matches of the 1958 World Cup, Brazil scored eleven goals. Pele scored six of them. 8 Pele, Brazil became the world champion for the first time. In one famous match, everyone was waiting for the 9 when Pele would score his thousandth goal. The referee (裁判) gave Santos a penalty kick (点球). Pele walked up to take it. The opposing goalkeeper had no chance with the 10 and accurate (准确的) shot. Pele had scored his thousandth goal! The other players ran to 11 him, and then Pele had a 12 . The opposing goalkeeper took off his football jersey (运动衫) there, under it, he 13 a T-shirt with the figure “1000” 14 in silver. Crowds ran on the field, and the game was delayed (延迟) for twenty minutes.

　　Pele played for Brazil in the World Cup in 1962, 1966 and 1970. When he retired (退役), Santos thanked him by 15 him a solid gold football weighing 4.5 pounds.

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In 2013, China chose “中国梦,”which means “Chinese dream,” as the Character of the Year to symbolize the overall feeling of the past 366 days. It’s easy to see why the word “dream” would be chosen as so many Chinese dreams have been recently realized: space exploration, a China-made aircraft carrier and a Nobel Prize-winning author.

Finishing national dreams makes us proud, but realizing personal dreams makes us worthy in our own eyes. Though the media would try to convince you, there is no set of “approved” dreams that we should all go after. Some may strive for money, fame and power, but others have more humble dreams that are just as important: learn English, study abroad, achieve inner peace, and be of service to humanity. It’s normal for people to create lofty New Year’s resolutions and just as normal to start strong and give up a few weeks later on our goals. How do we make sure that we achieve our dreams? Make your resolutions SMART and they’ll come true.
S — specific, detailed goals are easier to accomplish.
M— measurable goals enable you to complete a fixed amount of something.
A— achievable goals are possible, not ones that would take magic or miracles to accomplish.
R— relevant goals are meaningful to you.
T— time bound goals have an ending date. They’re not infinite. You know when you’re done.
Trip Bethel, a local college professor suggests that all goals should be positive and future-focused. “You can’t make a goal about being perfect. You’ll always disappoint yourself. But you can make a goal about perfecting your process. Then, you’re always on the way to a better life.”
Trip says many people write endless lists, but he just writes his resolutions once. He states them simply on a piece of paper and then puts the paper away for a year. “Often, when I look at the paper a year later, I’ve accomplished everything, or gotten close. There is something about writing things down that makes goals real and the opportunities to achieve them will come into your life.”
【小题1】In 2013, China chose “__________” as the Character of the Year?

A goal for life

Do you have a goal for life? What is it? Do you want to become a great writer, a   16   singer or just become a rich person?

A survey   17   that in modern society (现代社会), most people choose practical   18   such as “making money to buy a house and a car”, “making one’s life better” or “finding a good job”.

Wang You   19   in a small company in Nanjing 3 years ago. The job was good and he didn’t need to work on Saturday or Sunday. However, he felt the work wasn’t   20   at all and the life was  _21  . So he gave up his job and went to Beijing in February, 2009. When he   22   in Beijing, he had his new __23   as finding a good job.

Now   24   people want to live a better life. This fact shows that the society is making progress __25   people’s life goals have become more practical. One researcher says, “Everybody   26   his or her own life goal. If one man is poor,   27   life goal will be to make more money. If one man doesn’t  __28   a diploma (文凭), studying hard to get a diploma will become his life goal. And if one man doesn’t have love, his life goal will be to look   29   it. If one man has no life goal, he   30   idle away (虚度) his lifetime.”