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一、阅读理解
The 4 Books to Read if You Want to Transform Your Life in 2022
Want to feel more satisfied with life? We picked out these 4 books that will change your
outlook. With the Blinkist app, you can understand the key learnings from the best nonfiction
books in minutes-not hours or days. Our experts take the insights from these books to create
quick, memorable, easy-to-understand insights which can either be read or listened to in just
15 minutes.
Start with the 4 most-read titles on self-improvement and see if you don't feel a little
more satisfied already.
— Thirteen Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin.
Do you struggle to get over your failures? Or think and talk about things out of your
control? Getting over these difficulties can have a profound influence on your everyday life.
Morin shares how her most successful ways that patients overcame these difficulties.
— How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and
Karen Dillon
Are you making the right trade-offs in life? While career achievements can be satisfying,
neglecting (
忽略
) your family and friends can be harmful in the long-run in ways you can't
even imagine.
— Finding Your Element by Ken Robinson
Everyone has a passion. If you don't know what yours is, it just means you haven't
discovered it yet. Or perhaps you have, but it was dismissed early in life. Find out how you
can break free of society's strict rules and find your calling in life.
— Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Did you know if your pulse rate rises above 100 bpm, you're thought too emotional to
think rationally (
理性的
)? You probably let feelings cloud your judgment more often than
you know. Goleman explains how you can avoid letting your emotions rule you and make
better decisions in life.
Join millions of other learners and download Blinkist to start listening today!
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1
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Which book may help out people worried about their failures?
A
．
Thirteen Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
B
．
How Will You Measure Your Life?
C
．
Finding Your Element
D
．
Emotional Intelligence
2
．
Who would like to read Finding Your Element?
A
．
Patients who struggle against failures.
B
．
Job seekers who'll spend more time with family.
C
．
Graduates who are puzzled about what he wants to be.
D
．
Writers who want to publish their works in Blinkist.
3
．
What are the four books in common?
A
．
They are short stories.
C
．
They are for English learners.
When Finn the golden retriever (
寻回犬
) was diagnosed with a terminal cancer in May ,
his family decided to do something special to make his last days on earth brighter—and made
a doggie bucket list.
Cynthia and Robert Peterson, who live in Burlington, Vermont, wanted to treasure his
last days as part of their family. The family said that the idea is to “make him comfortable,
make him happy, Spoil him a little bit”.
They said the list is full of fun and includes everything that Finn would want to do. Finn
has already completed over half of the ten activities on his bucket list and there are an
exciting mixture of things he’s set to do. Some of them are fairly regular dog activities like
going for a hike, playing fetch, having a steak dinner, making a new friend and walking along
the beach. There’re also some more unusual activities like taking a hot air balloon ride , going
apple picking and having a song written about him.
People on social media have found the sweet idea by Finn’s family heartwarming. One
person commented on the video:“An animal is so often more than a pet, the unconditional
bond and love they pro-vide is a reward in itself. But this couple show their own love back
for Finn ten times.” The family said that they think Finn has inspired others to live “more
authentically”.
The family have appealed for help with his final bucket list activity. The family say they
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B
．
They are nonfiction books.
D
．
They are for improving listening.
need help to have a children’s book written about him. Cynthia and Robert are raising money
for the book on their Go Fund Me page.
4
．
Why did Finn’s owners make the bucket list?
A
．
To brighten his last days.
C
．
To raise money from public.
5
．
What do we know about the bucket list?
A
．
It lists tasks full of challenges.
C
．
It contains some special activities.
6
．
How did people react to the bucket list?
A
．
They were touched.
C
．
They attacked the idea.
B
．
They donated money.
D
．
They rewarded the owners.
B
．
It focuses on physical sports.
D
．
It is designed by people online.
B
．
To rid him of pain.
D
．
To help to cure the cancer.
7
．
Which activity on the bucket list needs people’s help now?
A
．
Going apple picking.
C
．
Taking a hot air balloon ride.
Olga Bannova doesn’t carry a business card that reads “Space Architect”, though she
admits that would be pretty cool. Instead, Bannova’s title is director of the Sasakawa
International Center for Space Architecture( SICSA) in the University of Houston’s Cullen
College of Engineering.
SICSA is home to the world’s only space architecture graduate program. It’s not a huge
program yet, accepting only a few graduates every year. But for those who believe our very
existence relies on someday moving to a different galactic (
银河的
) neighborhood, space
architecture has us covered. “You can’t stay in your house and think that somehow everyhing
else will be the saine. Everything is changing, including our Earth, including us, including the
solar system. It’s all changing and moving,” Bannova says. “That’s why it’s important. Space
architecture will consider all that we need in space.”
Space architects design buildings and houses and offices and a whole bunch of other
stuff that humans need to survive—both here and in space plus design ways to get between
them. They deal with problems that Earthbound architects don’t even dream about. For
example, a lack of oxygen or atmosphere. A lack of sunlight. Too much sunlight.
Microgravity. A lack of material to build what you need. Or no way to ship material that you
need to where you need it.
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B
．
Offering comfort to other pets.
D
．
Having a specially-written book.
It’s not hard to imagine the problems that space architects will face, now and in the
future. It’s not hard to imagine either that we can’t even begin to imagine some of the
challenges they’ll be up against. Carving out a space in space for our species to continue is a
huge undertaking, perhaps the most daring ever for mankind. But we’ve taken the first step,
haven’t we?
8
．
What is special about SICSA?
A
．
It is the only space research center.
B
．
It trains graduates to become spacemen.
C
．
It accepts lots of graduates every year.
D
．
It has a unique program in the world.
9
．
The underlined part “has us covered” in paragraph 2 means ________.
A
．
reports the latest news
C
．
provides what’s needed
B
．
hides something important
D
．
informs us of the development
10
．
Which aspect of space architects is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A
．
Their duties.
C
．
Their dreams.
B
．
Their challenges.
D
．
Their achievements.
11
．
What does the author think of space architects’ work?
A
．
Tiring.
Next time you are struggling with the crossword, try putting the kettle on. Drinking a
cup of tea can improve creativity, a study suggests.
Researchers gave men and women either tea or water and then asked them to complete a
word association game, which was used to measure a form of creativity known as convergent
thinking (
聚合思维
).
In the game, the participants were given sets of words such as “same, tennis, head” and
asked to find a meaningful link between them. The answer, in this case, would be “match?”.
After analysing the results in a way that ruled out the potential effects of a person’s
intelligence and language ability, the researchers, from Peking University in China, found that
those who drank the tea performed significantly better in the word association game. The tea
drinkers scored an average of 13. 89 in the word association game compared with 12. 94 for
water drinkers.
The researchers said it was not clear why tea has this beneficial effect. Tea contains
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B
．
Admirable. C
．
Problematic. D
．
Fruitful.
caffeine and theanine, which can improve attention, but the 100 participants in the study
drank only a small amount of tea—90ml, on average—and caried out the tests very soon after
consuming it, meaning any effect would have been ignored. “This result showed that the tea
drinking event itself—rather than the biological com-ponents of tea—played a positive role,”
the researchers said.
“Previous research has found that people tend to associate tea drinking with a specific
set of personality traits, such as smart, creative, elegant, confident, and stable. It may be that
when participants are stimulated (
刺激
) by tea, the mental representation of a tea drinker is
also activated, and they unconsciously think that they should be smarter and more creative,”
they added, “Future research should focus on specific mechanisms (
机制
) and clarify which
variables moderate the impact of tea consumption on convergent thinking.
12
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What did the participants have to do in the study?
A
．
Pair the words with each other.
B
．
Guess the meaning of the words.
C
．
Find a connection between the words.
D
．
Tell the differences among the words.
13
．
What helped a participant get a higher score according to the researchers?
A
．
The action of drinking tea itself.
B
．
The participant’s intelligence.
C
．
The participant’s language ability.
D
．
The biological components of tea.
14
．
What can be inferred from the previous research?
A
．
Drinking tea makes people more active.
B
．
Drinking tea is popular among the youth.
C
．
People tend to drink tea more than before.
D
．
People drinking tea are often thought smart.
15
．
Which of the following can be the best title of the text?
A
．
Drinking Tea Is Good for Health.
B
．
Drinking Tea Is A Popular Trend.
C
．
Drinking Tea Makes for Creativity.
D
．
Drinking Tea Matters A Lot in Life.
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