Problem: OPTIONS:
- To do more sports.
- Not to be beautiful.
- Not to ask others for help.
- Not to ask others for more and more.
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A horse doesn't think she is beautiful. She goes to see the God, "My God! Thanks for giving me a beautiful body, but I want to be more beautiful." The God says, "What do you want to be like?" The horse says, "If you can make my neck a little longer, my upper body will be more beautiful. And if you can make my legs much thinner, then my lower body will look more beautiful." Then the God makes her become a camel . "Oh, God, I want to become more beautiful. But now ... " says the horse. The God says, "This is what you ask for." The horse cries, "Oh no, I don't want to be a camel!" The God says, "Never try to get more. If you want more and more, you will have no idea what the result will be." Question: What does the writer want to tell us in this passage? Answer:
Answer: Not to ask others for more and more.
Problem: OPTIONS:
- Because they don't believe success always brings happiness.
- Because their basic needs are not completely met.
- Because they seek for too high levels of success.
- Because they haven't been working for their own goals.
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: When I was in college, I remember hearing about a book titled "Looking Out for Number One". I never read the book, but the title has always stuck with me. I think it was because the title _ I hadn't been taught to be so selfish that I should be focused on only me . I thought I needed to be helping others and, along the way, I would also be helping myself. Now, I realize I should have at least considered learning more about looking out for number one. Over 30 years after seeing the book about looking out for number one I'm realizing number one, me, is the person I should be concerned about first. Jeffrey Gitomer asks the question, "Who is the most important person in the world?" Most people answer, the customer. He then asks, if there were only two people left in the world, the customer and you, who would you want to survive ? Now the answer is me. It makes me sense that if we can't help ourselves first, we will never be prepared to help others. We all need to learn to control our lives and make the best decisions for ourselves. That will put us in a position to help others in the future . But many of us are slow to understand this. It has been said that happiness will bring success, but success doesn't always bring happiness. We all want to be happy and successful. For some of us can be very happy when our basic needs are met and our family are safe. Others will seek high levels of success thinking that will bring happiness. I'm sure we can think of a person who is very successful, according to the world's standards , but they don't appear to be happy at all. This is because they have been so busy working for somebody else's goals that they haven't considered their own needs. Question: Why do some successful people not feel happy at all? Answer:
Answer: Because they haven't been working for their own goals.
Problem: OPTIONS:
- grow angry but curious
- accept the offer
- grow embarrassed and reject the offer
- be frightened and cry for help.
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: There have never been many adventurers. You can read stories about men called adventurers. But they were really businessmen. There was something they wanted----- a lady, or money, or a country, or honor. And so they got it. But a true adventurer is different. He starts without any special purpose. He is ready for anything he may meet. There have been many half-adventurers. And they were great men. History is rich with their stories. But each of them had a special purpose. They were not followers of true adventure. In the big city of New York, Romance and Adventure are always waiting. As we walk along the street, they are watching us. We look up suddenly and see a face in a window. The face seems to interest us strangely. Or in a quiet street, we hear a cry of fear and pain coming from a house where no one lives. A car takes us to a strange door, instead of to our own. The door opens and we are asked to enter. At every corner, eyes look toward us, or hands are raised, or fingers point. Adventure is offered. But few of us are ready to accept. We are ready to do only the things we do every day. We wish to do only the things that everyone else does. We move on; and some day we come to the end of a long quiet life. Then we begin to think. Then, when it is too late, we are sorry that we have never known true Romance and Adventure. Question: The passage doesn't mention it, but we can infer from the passage that when most people meet an offer of adventure, they will _ . Answer:
Answer:
grow embarrassed and reject the offer