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1、河北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练:阅读理解(98)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。AIt was Thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside
2、 the storm door on the top step.“Any old papers, lady?” asked one of them.I was busy. I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals, wet with heavy snow.“Come in and Ill make you a cup of hot cocoa.”They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet
3、 sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget.The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The bo
4、y asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”I looked at my shabby slipcovers. The girl put her cup back in its saucer (茶托) carefully and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” Her voice was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that, holding their bundles of papers
5、 against the wind. They hadnt said “Thank you.” They didnt need to. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof o
6、ver our heads, my man with a good steady job these matched, too.I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.1. The writer let
7、 the children in because _.A. She showed great pity on themB. She had old papers to sellC. She wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving feastD. She wanted them to see how rich she was2. The girl thought the writer was rich perhaps because _.A. she saw that the ladys room was comfortableB. she saw t
8、he cups matched the saucersC. the writers slipcovers were very newD. the writer was preparing a big meal while she was too hungry.3. From the passage, we can infer that whether you are rich depends on _.A. how much money you have hadB. how you feel about your lifeC. how you have helped othersD. what
9、 job your husband is doing4. The writer left the muddy prints of small sandals on the floor for a while to _.A. show her husband that someone had comeB. remind her that she had helped two childrenC. remind her that she was very rich in the neighborhood D. remind her how life should beB“First we make
10、 our habits, then our habits make us.” Charles C. Noble Its such a simple concept, yet its something we dont always do. Its not extremely difficult to do, and yet I think its something that would make a world of difference in anyones life. Break your goals into habits, and focus on putting those hab
11、its into autopilot. My belief is that having one goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals. I try to turn my goals into habits, and in doing so, I put my goals on autopilot. Turning a goal into a habit means really focusing on it, seriously, for at least a month, to the exclusion
12、 of all else. The more you can focus on it, the more itll be put on autopilot. Lets look at my marathon goal as an example. I was just starting out in running, and I had the brilliant idea to run a marathon within a year. But in order to achieve that goal, I broke it down into two habits: 1. I had t
13、o make running a daily habit. 2. I had to report to people in order to have accountability (责任) I did this through family, friends and coworkers, through a blog, and through a column in my local newspaper every two weeks. With this accountability, theres no way I would stop running. The accountabili
14、ty habit took a couple months, mainly because I didnt focus on it too much while I was building the running habit. But it stuck, and for that first year of running, I would report to people I knew and blog about my running every day and I would write a column every two weeks for my local paper. Once
15、 those two habits were firmly fixed, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot. I still had to do the work, of course, but it didnt require constant focus. And eventually, I ran the marathon. I was able to achieve this because, all year long, I had the daily running habit and daily accountabilit
16、y habit. I put my marathon goal into autopilot, and that made it much easier instead of struggling with it daily for an entire year, I focused on it for one month and was able to accomplish it while focusing on new habits and goals. 5. According to the passage, we can see the key to forming a habit is _. A