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Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence as?serts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to be?lieve that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is “intelligent”. Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly let?tered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B.D.—Nervous Break Down.
“Intelligent” people do not have N.B.D.'s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N.B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
1
According to the author, the conventional notion of intelligence measured in terms of one's ability to read, write and compute____.
A.
is a widely held but wrong concept
B.
will help eliminate intellectual prejudice
C.
is the root of all mental distress
D.
will contribute to one's self-fulfillment
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
根据文章第1段第3、4句“这种智力观把正规教育和书面成绩当作自我价值的真正测量标准。这种标准鼓励了一种智力上的偏见，并已产生了不良的后果”,可知A与这两句的意思相符；其余三项显然与文章的观点相悖。
2
It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree ____.
A.
may result in one's inability to solve complex real-life problems
B.
does not indicate one's ability to write properly worded documents
C.
may make one mentally sick and physically weak
D.
does not mean that one is highly intelligent
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
从文章第1段最后两句“精神病院里拥有各种各样学历证书的病人并不少见。智力的真正的标志是每天快乐、有效地生活，并时刻活在当下”,可看出D与文章隐含的意思相符。A错在result in，在文中作者并未表明拥有一纸学历会“导致”解决现实复杂问题的无力；B与文章所述观点相悖;C显然不是作者想要表达的观点。
3
The author thinks that an intelligent person knows_____.
A.
how to put up with some very prevalent myths
B.
how to find the best way to achieve success in life
C.
how to avoid depression and make his life worthwhile
D.
how to persuade others to compromise
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
根据文章第2段首句“如果你快乐，如果你生活的每一刻都有意义，那么你就是一个聪明人”和第3段第2句“聪明人知道怎样选择幸福，而不是沮丧，因为他们知道怎样处理生活中的问题”可知，C与此意思相符。
4
In the last paragraph, the author tells us that _____.
A.
difficulties are but part of everyone's life
B.
depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in life
C.
everybody should learn to avoid trying circumstances
D.
good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
文章最后一段提到“生活的磨难对每个人都是一样的。处于社会生活中的人都会遇到相似的困难。意见分歧、冲突和妥协都是生活的一部分。同样，金钱、衰老、疾病、死亡、自然灾害事故也是几乎所有人所面临的问题。但有些人能度过这一切，避免生活中的沮丧和不幸，而有些人却被困难击倒，情绪沮丧”，因此A与此段的意思相符;B、C与文意不符;D在该段中并没有提及。
5
According to the passage,what kind of people are rare?
A.
Those who don't emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happiness.
B.
Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappiness.
C.
Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer from N.B.D.s.
D.
Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying circumstances.
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
文章最后一句话“那些认识到困难是人生必然存在的情况,并且不以有无困难来衡量幸福与否的人才是我们所知的最聪明的一类人,也是很罕见的一类人”,B所表达的意思与此相符。
I have worked with so many people over the years that have made me wonder how on earth they can work at their desk when everything that was in their drawers and in their filing cabinets has ended up in piles on top of their keyboard. One co-worker of mine couldn't remember what colour the top of his desk was! I had to say something, but when I did, he told me that he knew where everything was and needed all that paperwork for different projects he was working on.
Some study suggests that about 15% of our time is wasted on looking for misplaced files and paperwork at the office. People get really defensive when you tell them that their desk is a mess. They say that they don't have time to clean up, as they are too busy. And if they would file certain items they would forget to work on it and would therefore miss the deadline.
Hence, first things first, get yourself some folders and a black marker. Take every piece of paper on your desk one by one and file them. Make sure that everything you need to do with these papers is written down on a “to-do” list or even better in your computer organiser. For example, if you have to work on your budget next Monday, write down “work on budget” in your computer organiser so that when Monday comes, your computer will send you a reminder that you need to work on your budget today. Then file that paper in a folder named “budget”. Put that folder away—not on your desk!! But in your filing cabinet. Proceed this way with every bit of information that clutters your desk. Do not get distracted by a form that reminds you that you need to do something. Instead, jot it down on your “to-do” list or in your organiser. You won't forget it as it has been written down. File it and move on. Keep focused. Only do one thing at a time for the moment and that is to organise and clean your desk.
6
By mentioning his co-worker couldn't remember the color of the desk top， the author implies that____.
A.
the color of the desk top was too trivial to remember?
B.
people were always kept too busy with office work
C.
people always misplaced their files and paperwork
D.
disorganized office was hard to tolerate
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
题干是首段第2句的内容，是对该段首句“抽屉及文件柜里的东西最终在他们的键盘上堆积成山”的进一步举例说明，作者举这个极端的例子意在暗示“人们总是胡乱堆放文件（以至文件遮住桌面）”，因此C为本题答案。
7
What did the author most probably say to his co-worker?
A.
The author told him to put away the unnecessary paperwork.
B.
The author asked him for the paperwork he was working on.
C.
The author advised him to remember where everything was.
D.
The author suggested he deal with the projects one by one.
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
根据首段末句那位同事的回答可以推断作者对他说的内容应该是：整理办公桌，把不必要的文件清理干净，由此可见，本题应选A。本段主要针对“办公桌上乱七八糟”这个话题，B、D都与此主题无关,不能选;C并没有谈到“办公桌”、“文件”等关键问题，与主题关系不密切，也不能选。
8
Some people regarded the files left on the desk top as _____.
A.
functionally a computer
B.
side products of a project
C.
reminders of the work to do
D.
evidence for their busy work
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
第2段末句中的if... they would forget to…表明有些人把文件堆放在桌面上是为防止忘记要做的事，因此本题应选C。
9
A “budget” folder is used for ____.
A.
Keeping the “to-do” list
B.
recording what has been done
C.
registering the company's budget
D.
filing the relevant papers for future tasks
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
末段提到了整理桌面文件的步骤，还举了具体的例子，如要做预算报告，先将任务记录在计算机整理器中，然后将资料归人“budget”文件夹，以备做预算时使用，因此，budget文件夹中放的是将来做预算时所需的相关资料，即D项所述。
10
According to the author, the most important thing right now is to .
A.
sort out the priority of the office work
B.
clean the desk by filing the paperwork
C.
be concentrated on what is being done
D.
stop piling everything on the desk top
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
末段末句的Only do one thing... and that is...表明该句提到的就是现在所要做的最重要的事，B的内容与that is后的内容相同，因此选B。
In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation's youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally dull lot: cautious and obedient, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day一the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would analyze a decade later.
“Youth's ambitions have shrunk,” the magazine declared “Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around die world or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind of suburban idyll (田园生活）.” The young soldier “lacks flame,” students were “docile notetakers.” And the young writer's talent “sometimes turns out to be nothing more than a byproduct of his nervous disposition.”
“The best thing that can be said for American youth, in or out of uniform, is that it has learned that it must try to make the best of a bad and difficult job, whether that job is life, war, or both,” concluded. “The generation which has been called the oldest young generation in the world has achieved a certain maturity.”
Today we are in a recession the depth and duration of which are unknown; Friday's job loss figures were just the latest suggestion that it could well be prolonged and profound rather than shorter and shallower.
So what of the youth shaped by what some are already calling the Great Recession? Will a publication looking back from 2030 damn them with such faint praise? Will they marry younger, be satisfied with stable but less exciting jobs? Will their children mock them for reusing tea bags and counting pennies as if this paycheck were the last? At the very least, they will deal with tremendous instability, just as their Depression forebears did.
“The ‘30s challenged the whole idea of the American dream, the idea of open economic possibilities,” said Morris Dickstein an English professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “The version you get of that today is the loss of confidence on the part of both parent and children that life in the next generation will inevitably be better.”
How today's young will be affected 10, 20 or 40 years on will depend on many things. If history is any guide, what will matter most is where this recession generation is in the historical process.
11
What did the novel “Revolutionary Road” analyze?
A.
The inner pain of the Silent Generation.
B.
The personality of the Silent Generation.
C.
The characteristics of the efficient people.
D.
The impact of the Depression on the youth
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
“Revolutionary Road”出现在首段末句whose引导的定语从句中，该从句指出，10年后出版的《革命之路》分析了他们（“沉默的一代”）内心的痛苦，由此选A。inner agonies指内心的痛苦，与人的性格无关，因此排除B和C; D的范围太广，属于过度推断。
12
By commenting that “students were ‘docile notetakers'”, the Time magazine suggested that students, should have been _____.
A.
more independent
B.
more ambitious
C.
more creative
D.
more diligent
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
第2段首句是该段主题句，其他句子以举例的方式说明主题句的观点。文中提到学生是“温顺的书呆子”，目的是为了说明首句的观点：年轻人的野心已经退化，即《时代》杂志认为年轻人应更具野心，本题应选B。其他选项都与主题句中的ambitions这个话题无关。
13
What is the advantage of the Great Depression, according to Time?
A.
It increased the youth chances for a better job.
B.
It increased the youth's crisis awareness
C.
It made the youth learn to be mature.
D.
It made the youth more patriotic.
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
第3段开头的The best thing表明这一段讲的是大萧条对美国年轻人造成的正面影响，第2句《时代》杂志指出美国年轻人变得成熟了(has achieved a certain maturity)，可见选C。第3段首句中的make the best of a bad and difficult job意为“不管工作好坏，都要好好面对”,并没有“提供更好的工作”的意思， A不正确；文章没有提及B、D。
14
The author thinks that Time commented on the Silent Generation with ____.
A.
heartfelt sympathy
B.
solid evidence
C.
disguised praise
D.
convincing criticism
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
第5段第2句以提问的形式问道：未来的2030年还会有某本杂志再来一次回顾，得出类似的似褒实贬的称赞之辞吗？其中damn…with faint praise表明作者认为《时代》对“沉默的一代”的称赞并非出自真心， 或者说这种称赞实际上是批评,因此选C。
15
Morris Dickstein points out that people now _____.
A.
tend to believe in a prosperous future
B.
can rely on their children for a better life
C.
lose faith in the open economic possibilities
D.
was hopeless at a better life for their children
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
第6段末句句末的that life in the next generation…是loss of confidence 的同位语从句，意为“人们不相信下一代的生活会更好”，选项D为本题答案。该段首句提到的the open economic possibilities(各种赚钱的可能性)是美国梦的内容，C误解了原文的意思。
No woman can be too rich or too thin. This saying often attributed to the late Duchess (公爵夫人）of Windsor embodies much of the odd spirit of our times. Being thin is deemed as such a virtue.
The problem with such a view is that some people actually attempt to live by it. I myself have fantasies of slipping into narrow designer clothes. Consequently, I have been on a diet for the better—or worse—part of my life. Being rich wouldn't be bad either, but that won't happen unless an unknown relative dies suddenly in some distant land, leaving me millions of dollars.
Where did we go off the track? When did eating butter become a sin, and a little bit of extra flesh unappealing, if not repellent? All religions have certain days when people refrain from eating and excessive eating is one of Christianity's seven deadly sins. However, until quite recently, most people had a problem getting enough to eat. In some religious groups, wealth was a symbol of probable salvation and high morals, and fatness a sign of wealth and well-being.
Today the opposite is true. We have shifted to thinness as our new mark of virtue. The result is that being fat-or even only somewhat overweight-is bad because it implies a lack of moral strength.
Our obsession (迷恋）with thinness is also fueled by health concerns. It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before, and that, in many cases, being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease. These diseases, however, may have as much to do with our way of life and our high-fat diets as with excess weight. And the associated risk of cancer in the digestive system may be more of a dietary problem—too much fat and a lack of fiber-than a weight problem.
The real concern, then, is not that we weigh too much, but that we neither exercise enough nor eat well. Exercise is necessary for strong bones and both heart and lung health. A balanced diet without a lot of fat can also help the body avoid many diseases. We should surely stop paying so much attention to weight. Simply being thin is not enough. It is actually hazardous if those who get (or already are) thin think they are automatically healthy and thus free from paying attention to their overall life-style. Thinness cart be pure vainglory (虚荣).
16
In the eyes of the author, an odd phenomenon nowadays is that _____.
A.
the Duchess of Windsor is regarded as a woman of virtue
B.
looking slim is a symbol of having a large fortune
C.
being thin is viewed as a much desired quality
D.
religious people are not necessarily virtuous
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
在文章第1段末句，作者指出“瘦被认为是这样的一种美德”；而在第4段第2句，作者又提到“我们已经把瘦当成是一种新的美德标志”，故C正确。
17
Swept by the prevailing trend, the author ____.
A.
had to go on a diet for the greater part of her life
B.
could still prevent herself from going off the track
C.
had to seek help from rich distant relatives
D.
had to wear highly fashionable clothes
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
文章第2段第2、3句提到“我们自己也幻想能穿上窄小的名牌衣服。因此，为了……我也节食减肥”。因此，A正确。
18
In human history, people's views on body weight_____.
A.
were closely related to their religious beliefs.
B.
changed from time to time
C.
varied between the poor and the rich
D.
led to different moral standards
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
根据文章第3段末句“在一些宗教团体里，财富是有望得到救赎、拥有高尚品德的标志，而身体发福是富有和健康的标志。”以及第4段的内容可知，人们对体重的看法因时代不同而有所变化，所以B正确。
19
The author criticizes women's obsession with thinness .
A.
from an economic and educational perspective
B.
from sociological and medical points of view
C.
from a historical and religious standpoint
D.
in the light of moral principles
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
文章的第4段和第5段提到了道德和健康，因此可看出，作者是从社会学和医学的角度批评了人们的观点，所以B正确。
20
What's the author's advice to women who are absorbed in the idea of thinness?
A.
They should be more concerned with their overall life style.
B.
They should be more watchful for fatal diseases.
C.
They should gain weight to look healthy.
D.
They should rid themselves of fantasies about designer clothes.
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
文章第6段倒数第2句提到“瘦身之后（或者本来就不胖）的人，如果以为这样就可以自然而然健康起来而不必关注自己的整个生活方式，那才是危险的。”由此可推断作者建议那些一心求瘦的女人们应该多注意她们的生活方式，A符合题意。
The government has launched its consultation on better measures of child poverty, but it really has to be asked, better for whom? This is a government that looks set to preside over a truly dramatic increase in child poverty. The Institute for Fiscal Studies projects that after a decade of steady reductions in child poverty rates, 300,000 more children will be living in poverty in the UK by 2015. Big cuts to tax credits, a three-year freeze in child benefit, uprating out-of-work benefits using CPI rather than the more generous RPI—all will make vulnerable families poor over the course of this parliament.
So what does the government do about it? Rather than review its policies and ask how it can seek to fulfill its legal commitments under the Child Poverty Act 2010，it launches a consultation on the way that child poverty is measured.
Poverty is a complex phenomenon and no single indicator can fully capture the condition. The CPA 2010 recognizes this，urging governments to make progress against four specific measures ： relative poverty, absolute poverty，material deprivation and persistent poverty. Alongside this, we also track numerous other indicators of child well-being in the UK such as educational achievement, health outcomes and subjective experience.
Both Iain Duncan Smith and David Laws sought to convince the audience at the launch of the consultation that the government was not in retreat from the income measures contained in the CPA 2010. But in truth, the consultation document is peppered with digs at the relative measure, suggesting that changes to this indicator do not tell us anything meaningful about "real" poverty.
The consultation also seeks to dilute the relevance of income by developing a " multidimensional indicator" of child poverty. This indicator will blend together measures of worklessness, unmanageable debt and family stability among others to produce a single headline number that can be tracked over time.
At best, the government is combining poverty with its many consequences. At worst, it is simply changing the yaidstick against which they will be measured.
Consider，for example, the proposal that parental worklessness be a key defining feature of the new child Poverty measure. Using current definitions, 60% of children living in poverty today have at least one parent in work. Any measure that insists poverty is about worklessness will simply airbrush these 1.4 million children oat of the picture altogether.
Equally worryingly, the consultation insists that any new poverty measure must resonate with the public. The latest Bridal Social Attitudes survey shows just how widespread negative views of vulnerable groups in society are, but also makes clear that much of this shift in public opinion has been caused by current and previous government policies.
So, should we expect better measures of child poverty as a result of the consultation? Not better for the children growing up in low-income families for sure. And given the broader costs to society of child poverty, not better for anyone else——except, perhaps, a government that we suspect may be trying to avoid being held to account.
21
What will NOT lead vulnerable families to poverty according to the first paragraph?
A.
Sharp decline in tax credits.
B.
A three-year freeze in child benefit.
C.
Increasing unemployment benefits.
D.
The adoption of RPI instead of CH.
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
D
系统解析：
细节题。文章第一段最后一句提到税收抵免的大幅下降、三年儿童津贴的冻结、使用居民消费价格指数而不是更广泛的零售物价指数作为增加失业救济金的依据——在本届议会任期内，这些都会使困难家庭陷入困境，D. “使用零售物价指数而不是居民消费价格指数”与文意相反，所以为正确答案。A.“税收抵免的大幅下降”、B.“三年儿童津贴的冻结”和C.“增加失业救济金”在文中均有提及，故排除。
22
The multidimensional indicator adopts the following measure EXCEPT_____.
A.
educational accomplishment
B.
unemployment
C.
unpayable debt
D.
family stability
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
A
系统解析：
细节题。文章第五段第二句表明，多维指标将失业、无能力偿还的债务和家庭稳定性的衡量标准结合在一起，从而得出一个可以长期追踪的重要数据。本句并未提及使用了“教育成效”,这一衡量标准在第三段最后一句中提及，是指为了衡量贫困而追踪的英国儿童福利指标之一，所以A.为正确答案。B.“失业”、C.“无能力偿还的债务”和D.“家庭稳定性”在本句中均有提及，故排除。
23
The author's attitude towards parental unemployment as a child poverty measure is _____.
A.
supporting
B.
opposing
C.
neutral
D.
uncertain
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
态度题。文章第七段最后一句“任何认为贫困就是失业的提议，只会把140万名儿童划分在贫困线以外”表明，作者并不赞同把父母失业作为贫困的衡量标准，所以B.“反对的”为正确答案。 A.“支持的”、C. “中立的”和D.“不确定的”与文意不符，均排除。
24
It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_____.
A.
we can get better measures of child poverty from this consultation
B.
changing the child poverty measures can't help poor children
C.
the government can't benefit from better measures of child poverty
D.
the government avoids taking the responsibility
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
B
系统解析：
推理题。由最后一段第二句可知，儿童贫困更好的衡童标准对于在低收人家庭中长大的儿童没有任何好处，由此可知，改变儿童贫困衡量标准并不会对贫穷儿童有所帮助，所以B.为正确答案。最后一段第一句是一个问句，并未肯定此次磋商能讨论出儿童贫困更好的衡量标准，所以排除A.；本段最后一句提到除了政府以外,其他任何人都得不到好处，因此C.“政府不能从儿童贫困更好的衡量标准中获益”与文意相反，故排除；D.“政府逃避责任”是文章最后一句的字面意思，所以排除。
25
The passage is mainly about_____.
A.
poor children in the world
B.
the multidimensional indicator of child poverty
C.
the consultation on child poverty yardstick
D.
government policies on child poverty
本题答案：
A
B
C
D
参考答案：
C
系统解析：
主旨题。文章开篇提到政府就儿童贫困更好的衡量标准进行了磋商，然后谈论了磋商的内容和目的，最后谈到了磋商的可能结果，所以本文主要讨论的是关于儿童贫困衡量标准的磋商，故[E]为正确答案。本文讨论的是英国而非全世界的贫穷儿童，故排除A.“世界贫穷儿童”；B.“儿童贫困的多维指标”和D.“政府关于儿童贫困的政策”分别在文章第五段和第八段提及，但都只是本文讨论的一个方面，而不是主题，所以均可排除。
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