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If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago,we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day,we should be able to give an answer to the question.
It is the same in history .Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them .Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country,but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war.Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write.For example,we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them.But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.
Sometimes, of course,even if the people cannot write,they may know something of the past.They have heard about it from older people,and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings,and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations, for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past.This we may call “remembered history”.Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is,because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing.But where there are no written records,such spoken stories are often very helpful.
1.Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?
A.“Remembered history”,compared with written history,is less reliable |
B.Written records of the past play the most important role in our learning of the human history. |
C.A written account of our daily activities helps US to be able to answer many questions. |
D.Where there are no written records.there is no history. |
2.We know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because ___
A.there was nothing worth being written down at that time |
B.the people there ignored the importance of keeping a record |
C.the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire |
D.the people there did not know how to write |
3.“Remembered history” refers to ___.
A.history based on a person’s imagination |
B.stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth |
C.songs and dances about the most important events |
D.both B and C |
4.“Remembered history”is regarded as valuable only when ____.
A.it is written down |
B.no written account is available |
C.it proves to be time |
D.people are interested in it |
5.The passage suggests that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if the ancient people had _____
A.kept a written record of every past event |
B.not burnt their written records in wars |
C.told exact stories of the most important happenings |
D.made more songs and dances |
Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage.
Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.
You have probably heard a lot about goal setting and time management. Usually, once the goal is set up, it requires a lot of time and effort to achieve it.
Sometimes playing goal detective makes it more fun to reach your goal. To figure out what your goals are is based on how you spend your time. It’s sort of like those psychological rofiles(心理剖析)you hear about in movies and on television, but this time you will do it by yourself. You will find out how you spend almost every minute of the day. Normally you probably don’t write down how you spend each of those minutes, but if you were a detective and watching yourself, you would be writing down everything you did and when you did it. So, writing down what you do is the first step to be your own goal detective.
Now that you know how you spend your time, the next step is to sort the time. Things like eating, sleeping, working and playing are t he most obvious, but you can come up with as many as you want. Since you are being a detective, you will want to ask lots of questions about your activities in each of these categories. Here you use basic who, what, when, where and how questions to fill in information. For example, “Who did I spend time with?” “Where did I spend the time?” are possible questions that you could ask yourself. When you have finished with the questions you ask, “Now WHY did I spend my time in that way?” The answer to this quwstion is the goal, or at least part of a set of goals that makes you spend your time in that way.
Whatever you find out about your daily activities, chances are that the exercise will be good for you. At the very least you will know what things you did in one day and why you did them.
Title: Becoming 71
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