Failure is probably the most fatiguing (令人疲劳的)experience a person ever has. There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding, being blocked, not moving ahead. It is an evil circle. Failure causes fatigue, and fatigue makes it harder to get to work, which adds to the fatigue.

    We experience this tiredness in two main ways: start-up fatigue and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task that we are forced to take up. Either because it is too boring or because it is too difficult, we avoid it. And the longer we put it off, the more tired we feel.

   Such start-up fatigue is very real, even not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The remedy (治疗法) is obvious, though perhaps not easy to apply: willpower exercise. The moment I find myself turning away from a job, or putting it under a pile of things I have to do, I clear my desk of everything else and attack the difficult item first. To prevent start-up fatigue, always treat the most difficult job first.

   Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Here we are willing to get started, but we can't seem to do the job right. Its difficulties appear to be insurmountable and however hard we work, we fail again and again. The mounting experience of failure carries with it an ever-increasing burden of mental fatigue. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can, then let the unconsciousness take over.

72.. Which of the following can be called an evil circle？

??   A. Success-zeal-success-zeal.

??   B. Failure-tiredness-failure-tiredness.

??   C. Failure-zeal-failure-tiredness.

??   D. Success-tiredness-success-tiredness.

73.. According to the passage , when keeping putting off a task, we can experience _______.

??   A. tiredness    B. performance fatigue   C. start-up fatigue   D. unconsciousness

74.To overcome start-up fatigue, we need ________ .

??   A. toughness   B. prevention           C. muscles        D. strong willpower

75.. The underlined word "insurmountable" in the last paragraph probably means ________ .

??   A. that can not be overcome              B. that are known

??   C. that can not be imagined               D. that can not be objected

Failure is probably the most fatiguing (令人疲劳的)experience a person ever has. There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding, being blocked, not moving ahead. It is an evil circle. Failure causes fatigue, and fatigue makes it harder to get to work, which adds to the fatigue.

    We experience this tiredness in two main ways: start-up fatigue and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task that we are forced to take up. Either because it is too boring or because it is too difficult, we avoid it. And the longer we put it off, the more tired we feel.

   Such start-up fatigue is very real, even not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The remedy (治疗法) is obvious, though perhaps not easy to apply: willpower exercise. The moment I find myself turning away from a job, or putting it under a pile of things I have to do, I clear my desk of everything else and attack the difficult item first. To prevent start-up fatigue, always treat the most difficult job first.

   Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Here we are willing to get started, but we can't seem to do the job right. Its difficulties appear to be insurmountable and however hard we work, we fail again and again. The mounting experience of failure carries with it an ever-increasing burden of mental fatigue. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can, then let the unconsciousness take over.

72.. Which of the following can be called an evil circle？

??   A. Success-zeal-success-zeal.

??   B. Failure-tiredness-failure-tiredness.

??   C. Failure-zeal-failure-tiredness.

??   D. Success-tiredness-success-tiredness.

73.. According to the passage , when keeping putting off a task, we can experience _______.

??   A. tiredness    B. performance fatigue   C. start-up fatigue   D. unconsciousness

74.To overcome start-up fatigue, we need ________ .

??   A. toughness   B. prevention           C. muscles        D. strong willpower

75.. The underlined word "insurmountable" in the last paragraph probably means ________ .

??   A. that can not be overcome              B. that are known

??   C. that can not be imagined               D. that can not be objected

My classmates called me “the alien”, and they avoided me like the plague（瘟疫）． As a young boy, I  1  from a serious skin disease, which filled my arms with scars．The true  2  of my condition, however, was social: I lived a life of loneliness．

    Doctors predicted that I would never fully recover, but my parents encouraged me to hope for the future, teaching me that any difficulty could be  3_．I therefore took an active role in fighting against my disease, and my health  4  greatly before I graduated．I realized that my personal  5_ had led to this improvement．I regained self-confidence and made many friends at school．

    Years later,  6  my personal battle against disease, I learned a great deal about  7  by overcoming difficulties．

    I joined the Culture Club as a Special Event Director．I  8  a group of six students in organizing various activities．I was the most advanced student among the group, so I considered myself the most capable．But I quickly learned my  9．While preparing for our first presentation, I was  10 with my team members and often rejected their  11 ．I performed most of their tasks myself, allowing them to   12  me only with small details．As a result, the presentation was not very successful．The setback  13  me, and I mentioned it to the club’s director． She _14  that she    trusted my ability to succeed in the future．This comment filled me with  15 , for I realized that I had never trusted my own team members．

Although they were  16  in English, they had many valuable talents．I immediately  17  my policy．For our program, we had many meetings, which gave  18  to many good ideas．Most  19_, the atmosphere among us improved dramatically．We were crazy and eager to devote time to the program, _20  I learned what true leadership is．

    My experiences undoubtedly improved my ability to handle challenging situations．

1．A．judged                  B．separated             C．prevented            D．suffered

2．A．pain                      B．sign                    C．value                   D．meaning

3．A．overlooked            B．overcome           C．overdone             D．overestimated

4．A．developed              B．removed              C．increased             D．improved

5．A．joy                       B．goal                    C．will                     D．life

6．A．like                       B．over                    C．for                      D．in

7．A．ability                   B．quality                 C．leadership            D．friendship

8．A．taught                   B．managed             C．found                  D．followed

9．A．method                 B．mistake               C．effort                  D．right

10．A．strict                   B．familiar                C．patient                 D．satisfied

11．A．desires                B．ideas                   C．tasks                   D．talents

12．A．help                    B．guide                   C．show                  D．remind

13．A．encouraged          B．disturbed             C．discouraged         D．educated

14．A．found                  B．thought               C．repeated              D．responded

15．A．pride                   B．hope                   C．surprise               D．delight

16．A．slow                   B．strong                 C．rich                    D．weak

17．A．deleted                B．changed              C．regretted             D．considered

18．A．rise                     B．hand                   C．gift                     D．birth

19．A．importantly          B．honestly              C．necessarily          D．respectably

20．A．and                   B．but             C．or               D．for

Successes or failures of employees in the workplace can be traced to what kind of father they had, a psychologist argues in a new book.

In The Father Factor, Stephan Poulter lists five styles of fathers—super-achieving, time-bomb, passive, absent and warm-hearted – who have powerful influences on the careers of their sons and daughters.

Children of the “time-bomb” father, for example, who explodes in anger at his family, learn how to read people and their moods. Those abilities make them good at such jobs as personnel managers or negotiators, he writes. But those same children may have trouble feeling safe and developing trust, said Poulter, a clinical psychologist who also works with children in Los Angeles schools. “I’ve seen more people hit their heads on what they call a glass ceiling or cement wall in their careers, and it’s what I call the father factor,” Poulter said in an interview. “What role did your father have in your life? It’s this unknown variable that has huge influence because we’re all sons and daughters.”

Styles of fathering can affect whether their children get along with others at work, have a team spirit, worry too much about their careers, burn out or become the boss. Even absent fathers affect how their children work, he writes.

Those children may be overachievers, becoming the person their father never was, or develop such anger toward supervisors or authority figures that they work best when they are self-employed, he writes.

Poultry co-authored an earlier book on mothers and daughters called Mending the Broken Bough. The Father Factor is set for release next month by Prometheus Books.

61. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Fathers’ influences on how their children work.

B. Fathers’ impact on their children

C. Father and the family life.

D. Father can be important to family members.

62. The underlined sentence in paragraph3 means____________________.

A. the person who succeeds in his/her career is affected by his/ her father

B. fathers will help you to overcome difficulties

C. the father factor is very important in one’s job

D. the person who often get trouble in society find the deep root in his /her father

63. According to what Poulter has written, the son of a “time-bomb” father_______________.

A. is good at cooperating with others

B. tends to be angry to others.

C. often loses temper at home

D. is likely to become a leader in the future

64. Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A. The person with a “time-bomb father” is always confident.

B. We are all influenced more or less by our fathers

C. The person without his father’s company will not be affected by the father factor.

D. The father factor is more important than the mother factor.

65. According to the passage, we learn that __________.

A. only absent fathers won’t affect their children

B. the father factor has greater effect on boys

C. the time-bomb father is the worst of fathers of different styles

D. whether children have a team spirit also has something to with the styles of their fathers.