What time is it? Most people are pretty accurate in their answer. And if you don’t know for sure, it’s very likely that you can find out. There may be a watch on your wrist; there may be a clock on the wall, desk, or computer screen; or maybe you’re riding in a car that has a clock in the dashboard(仪表板).

   Even if you don’t have a timepiece of some sort nearby, your body keeps its own beat. Humans have an internal clock that regulates(调节) the beating of our heart, the pace of our breathing, the discharge(排出) of chemicals within our bloodstream, and many other bodily functions.

  Time is something from which we can’t escape. Even if we ignore it, it’s still going by, ticking away, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour. So the main issue in using your time well is, “Who’s in charge?” We can allow time to slip by and let it be our enemy. Or we can take control of it and make it our ally. 

   By taking control of how you spend your time, you’ll increase your chances of becoming a more successful student. Perhaps more importantly, the better you are at managing the time you devote to your studies, the more time you will have to spend on your outside interests.

   The aim of time management is not to schedule every moment so we become slaves of a timetable that governs every waking moment of the day. Instead, the aim is to permit us to make informed choices as to how we use our time. Rather than letting the day go by, largely without our awareness, what we are going to discuss next can make us better able to control time for our own purposes.

The underlined word “ally” in Para.3 most likely means somebody or something that is ___.

A. your supporter and helps you          B. under your control and obeys you

C. under your influence and follows you   D. your slave and serves you

The author intends to tell you that time __________.

A. could be managed by the internal clock of human bodies

B. should be well managed for our own interest

C. should be saved for outside interests

D. could be regulated by a timepiece such as a clock or a watch

In the next part, the author would most probably discuss with you _________.

A. how to make up for lost time      B. how to have a good time

C. how to make good use of time     D. how to keep up with the times

People hold the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people don’t like the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, commitment(承担的义务)，self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment, for commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most obvious features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word “fun” to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting true happiness is one of the most liberating realizations because true happiness has nothing to do with fun. It liberates(解放) time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actully may not be happy at all.
【小题1】According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because____

A．he is unwilling to take family responsibilities

B．he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

C．he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

D．he fears it will put an end to all his fun, adventure and excitement

【小题2】 The underlined word bachelor means_________

A．a married man	B．a college student
C．a single man	D．an academic degree

【小题3】From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes results from______

A．hatred

B．misunderstanding

C．prejudice

D．ignorance

【小题4】To understand what true happiness, one must________

A．have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime.

B．make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

C．put up with pain under all circumstances

D．be able to distinguish happiness from fun

【小题5】What is the author trying to tell us?

A．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.

B．One must know how to attain happiness.

C．It is important to make commitments.

D．It is pain that leads to happiness.

请根据首字母或括号内的提示用单词的正确形式填空 (共15题; 每小题1分, 满分15分)

1.Harry Potter, the a_______ of which is J.K. Rowling, has been one of the best-sellers for years.

2.WWF is d_______ (致力于) to protecting wild animals around the world and the places where these animals live.

3.If I’m late for the interview, I will be _______ (暴怒的) with myself！

4.We can a_______ (呼吁) to charities to help those less fortunate.

5.Can you a_______ for the series of failures in our experiment?

6.You must ask for _______ (permit) if you want to leave early.

7.“You always were the best-tempered man,” said Amanda, smiling g_______ (温柔地).

8.After his wife passed away, he s_______ (寻求) escape in the bottle from hard realities.

9.A g______ (真正的) friend will not desert you in time of trouble.

10.He wanted to be a _______ (物理学家) and devote himself to research.

11.Looking up, he found himself s_______ (包围) by many children in rags.

12.The house is more than twenty meters long and m_______ six meters in width.

13.Without mutual (相互的) respect, true love cannot possibly e_______.

14.Modern industry has been concentrated in a few u_______ (城市的) centers.

15.It is 2 weeks since the Art Festival, but the performances of all the students are still very _______ (令人印象深刻的).

 

 

 

Gao Xiaosong was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His grandfather was headmaster of the famous Tsinghua University. His wife’s father graduated from the Imperial College London and founded Shenzhen University. He basically grew up on Tsinghua's campus, and studied in the top schools in China, before he, unsurprisingly, entered Tsinghua's electronic engineering department, one of the school's best majors.

He wrote On the Same Page as You are at age 24. Almost overnight, every young person knew the song by heart. That tune and his later works made him a household name in the country. He later became a judge on the hot variety show (综艺节目) China's Got Talent. 

Everything has gone right for him aside from one major bump in the road—he was arrested for drunken driving in 2011, after he left the first press conference for his film, My Kingdom.

"For me, the six months was not only a result of the trial but also an atonement,（赎罪）" he says. "Six months is like a leaf falling from the tree of life—no big deal. I was a spoiled person in many ways before 40. So, maybe it was an opportunity to pay for my wildness and arrogance(傲慢) in my youth." The hardest thing for him in prison wasn't sleeping between a thief and a bad man but missing his daughter's development from ages 3.5–4.

Gao has become even busier after getting out of prison for drunken driving. A tour concert of his songs is going around the country, while Morning Talk airs weekly. He is searching for new vocal talent for a music company, and his next film is in progress. But he knows clearly what he wants from life—he plans to focus on music until he turns 60, after which he'll focus on writing and film directing. "You can never write pop music at 60," he says. "I don't complain about that. But you can always write a good book or direct a good film, no matter how old you are."

1.What caused him to become well-known to every family in China? 

(No more than 7 words)                                                  (3 marks)

___________________________________________________

2.What did he find it the most difficult to do when he was in prison?

(No more than 11 words)                                                 (2 marks)

___________________________________________________

3.When is he going to devote himself to writing and directing films ？

 (No more than 7 words)                                                  (2 marks)

___________________________________________________ 

4.What words can be used to describe Mr. Gao’s character before he was forty?

(No more than 6 words)                                                  (3 marks)

 

 Since he often travels on business, he can ______ himself to sleeping in any place he can find.

A. devote                  B. accustom                 C. force             D. reduce