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How do successful people think? What drives them? Interviews and investigations indicate that there are several keys to success that successful people share.
First of all, successful people never blame someone or something outside of themselves for their failure to go ahead. They realize that their future lies in their own hands. They understand that they cannot control things in life, such as nature, the past and other people. But in the meantime, they are well aware that they can control their own thoughts and actions. They take responsibility for their life and regard this as one of the most empowering things they can do. Perhaps what most separates successful people from others is that they live a life “on purpose”---- they are doing what they believe they are put here to do. In their opinion, having a purpose in their life is the most important element that enables them to become fully functioning people. They hold that when they live their life on purpose, their main concern is to do the job right. They love what they do ---- and it shows. People want to do business with them because of their commitment(忠诚). To live their life on purpose, successful people find a cause they believe in and create a business around it. Besides, they never easily give up. Once they have set up goals in their life, they are willing to work hard whatever it takes to achieve their goals. Top achievers always bear in mind what they don’t have.
Rather than be negative or depressing, they use the knowledge to spur themselves on and go after what they want energetically and passionately.
46. The underlined word “it ” refers to “____”.
A. the main concern of successful people
B. the job that successful people do
C. the commitment with which successful people do their jobs
D. the business that successful people do with other people
47. By living a life “on purpose”, successful people can do the following EXCEPT ____.
A. do a lot of work
B. concentrate on their jobs
C. do business with many people
D. control things in life
48. The underlined word “spur ” most probably means “____”.
A. encourage B. exciteC. relieve D. compel

Mr. Smith works in a factory. There he drives a truck. He’s tired all the time. When he comes back, he’s always busy and doesn’t want to do any housework. His wife is a doctor and likes to keep all the things clean. So she has to do all at home. She usually goes to work from Monday to Friday and has to do all on weekends. All her friends know about it and sometimes they come to help her.
It’s Saturday today. Mrs Smith tells her husband to help her do some housework, but he says he has something to do and goes out early in the morning. He leaves a lot of dirty clothes at home. Mrs Smith doesn’t go to work but she doesn’t feel well. So she doesn’t want to do any housework. After breakfast, Jo, one of her friends, comes to see her when she’s sitting on a chair.
The girl finds the rooms are dirty and she asks, “Don’t you clean your rooms today, Mrs Smith?” “No, I don’t.”says the doctor. “Why don’t you wear your glasses?” “Then I will think the rooms are still clean.”
小题1:What does Mrs Smith do ?

A．A truck driver.

B．A nurse.

C．A doctor.

D．A teacher.

小题2:Who usually does the housework at home, Mr Smith or Mrs Smith?

A．Mr Smith.

B．Mrs Smith.

C．Both of them.

D．Neither of them.

小题3:What’s Mr Smith doing when her friend Jo comes to see her ?
A. She is reading a book.
B. B. She is watching TV.
C. She is doing housework.
D. She is sitting on a chair.
小题4:Why doesn’t Mrs Smith wear her glasses that day? Because_________.

A．she stays at home

B．she’s sitting on the chair

C．the rooms are clean

D．she doesn’t want to see the dirty rooms

小题5:After we read the story, we can know___________.

A．Mr Smith is often ill

B．Mrs Smith is always lazy.

C．Mr Smith is always busy after work.

D．Sometimes Mr Smith helps Mrs Smith.

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Empathy(同情心) lets us feel another person’s pain and drives us to help. Do any other animals feel empathy? Scientists recently found that rats(老鼠) do, too.
Most people don’t like rats. In many people’s eyes, rats are only bad. But Jean Decety and his partners at the University of Chicago did an experiment. It showed that rats are kind, warm-hearted animals. They can feel each other’s pain.
Scientists placed pairs of rats in plastic cages(笼子) for two weeks. During this time they got to know each other. Then they put one of the rats from each pair into a small container(容器) in the cages. The small container had a door. It was so designed as to fall to the side when the free rat touched it. Many of the trapped(困住的) rats squeaked(吱吱叫) to show their discomfort. The other rats of the pairs could see their suffering(受苦的) friends clearly.
In most pairs, the free rats would become very worried about their friends. They kept trying to save their friends again and again throughout the month. Scientists put the rats’ favorite chocolate in the cages, but the rats didn’t eat it until they had saved their friends successfully. Scientists also found that female rats seemed to act more empathetic than male rats.
“The results are the first to show that rats take action in response to another’s trouble,” Decety said. “Monkeys and chimpanzees have similar behavior. But unlike those animals, rats can be ready used in laboratory studies. They will help us to learn which parts of the brain lead to empathy and helping behavior and whether empathy is natural.”
小题1:A person with empathy is often _____.

A．kind-hearted

B．clever

C．active

D．strong

小题2:Why didn’t the free rats eat the chocolate at first?

A．Because they were not hungry at that time.

B．Because chocolate was not their favorite food.

C．Because they wanted to save the trapped rats first.

D．Because they were afraid that the chocolate was bad.

小题3:Which of the following animals were NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Monkeys.

B．Chimpanzees.

C．Rats.

D．Cats.

小题4:What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．Rats can feel other animals’ pain.

B．Chocolate is rats’ favorite food.

C．Rats are empathetic and can feel each other’s pain.

D．Female rats are more empathetic than male rats.