We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects（缺陷）that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 21 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 22 .

These comments may come from stories about us that have been 23 for years—often from 24 childhood. These stories may have no 25 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical（操作机械的）skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 26 my development? I was never 　27 to work on cars or be around 28 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later, 　29 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 30 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 31 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 32 and told him about my 33 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 34 is it that you can solve

35 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 36 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 37 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 38 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 　39 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 40 we choose.

We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects（缺陷）that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 21 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 22 .

These comments may come from stories about us that have been 23 for years—often from 24 childhood. These stories may have no 25 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical（操作机械的）skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 26 my development? I was never 　27 to work on cars or be around 28 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later, 　29 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 30 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 31 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 32 and told him about my 33 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 34 is it that you can solve

35 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 36 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 37 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 38 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 　39 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 40 we choose.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　With their shiny, grey bodies, dolphins（海豚）appear to be large fish．____1____, they are really warm-blooded mammals. Although they can stay under the water for up to 15 minutes ____2____, the dolphins must come up to breathe air through a hole on top of their heads.

　　Dolphins are social animals. Many of them even ____3____ around humans. In addition to being playful; they are helpful to men. For example ____4____ 400 B.C. the Great poet Arion was saved from ___5____ by a dolphin. From then until now, dolphins have been helping swimmers, ____6__ in trouble. Swimmers, however ,are not ___7____ humans they help. In some parts of the world, they help men ____8____ fish.

　　Dolphins are very clever. Its brain is even larger than a human's. Therefore, some people think a dolphin ____9__ smarter than a man, but ____10___, brain size is not the only measure of cleverness. Besides, measuring dolphin's cleverness in other ways is not possible ___11____ men cannot talk with them. But we can almost ____12____ that dolphins can talk with each other. They make different ____13____ which seem to be at least a form of language. Up to now men ____14___ able to find out how dolphins are talking. So no one really knows what they are thinking. If we could talk with them, perhaps they could teach us to be ___15____ they seem to be.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　With their shiny, grey bodies, dolphins（海豚）appear to be large fish．____1____, they are really warm-blooded mammals. Although they can stay under the water for up to 15 minutes ____2____, the dolphins must come up to breathe air through a hole on top of their heads.

　　Dolphins are social animals. Many of them even ____3____ around humans. In addition to being playful; they are helpful to men. For example ____4____ 400 B.C. the Great poet Arion was saved from ___5____ by a dolphin. From then until now, dolphins have been helping swimmers, ____6__ in trouble. Swimmers, however ,are not ___7____ humans they help. In some parts of the world, they help men ____8____ fish.

　　Dolphins are very clever. Its brain is even larger than a human's. Therefore, some people think a dolphin ____9__ smarter than a man, but ____10___, brain size is not the only measure of cleverness. Besides, measuring dolphin's cleverness in other ways is not possible ___11____ men cannot talk with them. But we can almost ____12____ that dolphins can talk with each other. They make different ____13____ which seem to be at least a form of language. Up to now men ____14___ able to find out how dolphins are talking. So no one really knows what they are thinking. If we could talk with them, perhaps they could teach us to be ___15____ they seem to be.

Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.1__ in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a town. This street was 2__ on both sides with many various   3_ .

Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of goods: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries.   4  , some shops offered   5   .These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. 6   in the 1950s, a change began to take place. Too many cars had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were  7  to shoppers. Because- the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with   8   at the open spaces outside the city limits. Open space was what their car-driving  9  needed.

And open space was what merchants got  10   the first shopping centers were built Shopping centers, or rather malls,  11  as a collection of small new stores  12  crowded city centers.  13   by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from   14 areas to out-lying malls. And the growing   15  of shopping centers led  16  to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.

17   the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost  18  into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the  19  of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped（园林化）parks,  20   benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.

1．A．Finally                            B．Early                    C．Late                  D．Lately

2．A．built                               B．designed               C．intended             D．lined

3．A．factories                         B．trees                     C．businesses         D．hospitals

4．A．In addition                      B．Therefore              C．On the contrary  D．As well

5．A．accommodation               B．information           C．technology         D．services

6．A．And                               B．Thus                    C．So                     D．But

7．A．special                            B．available                C．closed               D．reliable

8．A．surprise                          B．delight                  C．interest              D．horror

9．A．customers                      B．bosses                  C．workers             D．staff

10．A．when                            B．while                    C．since                 D．because

11．A．changed                        B．started                  C．provided            D．organized

12．A．within                           B．near                      C．next to               D．away from

13．A．Suggested                     B．Attacked               C．Attracted           D．Confused

14．A．public                           B．private                  C．outdoor             D．downtown

15．A．popularity                     B．beauty                  C．distinction          D．expense

16．A．out of turn                    B．in turn                  C．out of order       D．in order

17．A．By                                B．During                  C．In                     D．Towards

18．A．increased                      B．shrunk                  C．developed          D．decreased

19．A．regulation                      B．relation                 C．convenience       D．confidence

20．A．around                          B．besides                 C．with                  D．without