Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future and for motivating yourself to turn this vision of the future into reality. The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to get in life. By knowing exactly what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You’ll also quickly spot the distractions that would otherwise lure you from your course.

    More than this, properly-set goals can be incredibly motivating, and as you get into the habit of setting and achieving goals. You’ll find that your self-confidence builds fast.

Goal setting techniques are used by top-level athletes successful business-people and achievers in all fields. They give you long-term vision and short-term motivation. They focus your acquisition of knowledge, and help you to organize your time you’re your resources so that you can make the very most of your life.

By setting sharp, clearly defined goals you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind(苦差事). By setting goals you will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your ability and competence in achieving the goals that you have set.

     Goals are set on a number of different levels：First you create your “big picture” of what you want to do with your life，and decide what large-scale goals you want to achieve. Second you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that you must hit to reach your lifetime goals. Finally, once you have your plan, you start working down to the things you can do today. Start moving towards them so that you can achieve your goals step by step.

5l. According to Paragraph l, we can infer       ．

A. goal setting allows you to change your mind

 B. goal setting inspires you to follow your dreams

 C. goal setting leads you to concentrate on your goals

 D. goal setting helps you choose what you want in life

52. By setting long-term and short-term goals,        .

A. you can learn more knowledge      B. you can enjoy your life to the fullest

 C. you can fully develop your potential  D. you can have long-term motivation

53. In order to feel a sense of achievement, you should      .

 A. tern a long pointless task into what you like

 B. compare what you have done with your goals

 C. predict progress you hope to make in advance

 D. set specific goals and manage to achieve them

54. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A. The way to create the ideal of future B. The different types of personal goals

C. The process of setting personal goals    D. The different levels for lifetime goals

55. What is the best title for the passage?

  A. Self-confidence Tips      B. Personal Goal Setting

  C. How to Achieve Success     D. Different Levels of Goals

Rabbits are easy to raise. They are clean and quiet. They don’t need a lot of room. And it costs a small amount of money to feed them, but you can get a big return.

       One male and two females will produce as many as fifty more rabbits in a year. That is enough to provide enough meat for a family. Rabbit meat is high in protein and low in fat.

       You don’t have to be a farmer to raise rabbits. You can raise them in the city.

       Rabbit houses are easy to make with wood and wire. They don’t have to be very big. But each rabbit must have its own little room in the house. This is very important. Each room should be about 75 centimeters wide, 60 centimeters high and one meter deep.

       Fencing is used for the sides and floor of the rabbit house. The holes in the wire fencing should be about one centimeter square. Waste from the animals will drop through the holes. This keeps the rabbit house clean and dry.

       Rabbits need a lot of fresh air and sunlight. Cover the sides of the rabbit house only to protect it from rain.

       Rabbits eat mostly grass and leaves. Hang feeding containers on the outside of the house to let the rabbits eat whenever they want. They simply pull the grass and leaves through the holes in the fence.

       Each room should have fresh water. The water containers should be heavy so the rabbit cannot turn them over. Or you can tie the containers to the fence.

       One month after mating(交配), female rabbits give birth to about eight babies. In two months, a baby rabbit should weigh about two kilograms. This is big enough to make a meal for a small family.

       Rabbits are also valuable for their fur. It takes time, skill and money to prepare the fur and skin for use. If you have only a few rabbits, it probably would be best to let a tanner(制革工) prepare the fur for you. Skill is also needed to remove the fur from the rabbit.

       But rabbits do not have to be dead to be valuable. Many people enjoy keeping rabbits as friendly pets. And rabbit waste makes an excellent fertilizer(肥料). It can be mixed directly into the soil to improve the growth of vegetables, trees, and flowering plants.

The text is written mainly_______.

A. to explain why rabbits are clean and quiet   B. to let people know more about rabbits

C. to tell readers how to raise rabbits         D. to introduce a small friendly animal pet

What is important if you raise rabbits?

A. Holes are needed for waste to drop through.

B. Each rabbit must be given a separate room.

C. Each room must have clean water every day.

D. Feeding containers are hung on the fence.

Why should the holes in the wire fence be about one centimeter square?

A. Because the holes let in sunlight.    

B. Because rabbits like these holes.

C. Because rabbits get food from them.

D. Because waste of rabbits drops through the holes.

What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?

A. You don’t have to kill rabbits to make more money.

B. Rabbits cannot be sold to make money when they are alive.

C. Rabbits are more valuable when they are alive.

D. Rabbits have to be killed to be more valuable.

Endless playing of songs like All I want for Christmas in shops during the festive season doesn’t just drive us mad —the songs also make us more careless with our money, research has warned.

While repeated performance of Jingle Bells may seem like an innocent attempt to raise customers’ spirits during the nightmare of Christmas shopping, the songs also have a more delicate impact.

“Background music, or “Muzak”,can be used by marketers to impose cultures ---such as the commercialization of Christmas--- onto consumers and influence their behaviour,” experts said.

Dr. Alan Bradshaw of Royal Holloway, University of London, said, “Festive jingles are force-fed to Christmas shoppers in a bid to change their mood, influence their sense of time and what sort of products they buy. In other words, this is an attempt to control your shopping habits in a way that you might hardly be aware of.”

“Often we are told that we have the freedom to choose where we want to shop, but during Christmas the use of music in this way is so common that our freedom to choose disappears.”

Dr. Bradshaw and Prof Morris Holbrook of Columbia University examined the phenomenon and found that retailers often “dumb down” the music played in shops to relax customers, meaning it is easier to control their behaviour.

It is thought that slowing down the rhythm of music in shops can trick customers into thinking less time has passed, and therefore spend more time examining the shelves, for example.

Some providers of background music have been known to promote their services by claiming they can boost profits by controlling the behaviour of customers.

“A common trick is to take a popular current song and record an instrumental version which can be slowed down or sped up at different time of the day to influence behaviour in different ways,” Dr. Bradshaw said.

Background music is often classed as “Muzak” in honor of the Seattle-based company which began producing its soft-sounding melodies in the 1930s.

1.According to Dr. Bradshaw, in what ways does Christmas music influence customers?

①their mood               ②their income

③their sense of time         ④ the sort of products they buy

A.①②③    B.①③④    C.②③④   D.①②④

2. Shopkeepers slow down the rhythm of music in shops to ___________.

A. let customers spend more time shopping

B. make customers and sales assistants relaxed

C. let customers enjoy the beautiful music

D. help customers find what they really want

3.What kind of music is now often adapted to influence customers in shops?

A. Classical music     B. Popular modern songs.

C. Folk songs.        D. Jazz music.

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Music makes happy Christmas

B. Christmas “Muzak”

C. How to make Christmas music?

D. Christmas music makes us spend more

 

 

Rabbits are easy to raise. They are clean and quiet. They don’t need a lot of room. And it costs a small amount of money to feed them, but you can get a big return.

      One male and two females will produce as many as fifty more rabbits in a year. That is enough to provide enough meat for a family. Rabbit meat is high in protein and low in fat.

       You don’t have to be a farmer to raise rabbits. You can raise them in the city.

       Rabbit houses are easy to make with wood and wire. They don’t have to be very big. But each rabbit must have its own little room in the house. This is very important. Each room should be about 75 centimeters wide, 60 centimeters high and one meter deep.

       Fencing is used for the sides and floor of the rabbit house. The holes in the wire fencing should be about one centimeter square. Waste from the animals will drop through the holes. This keeps the rabbit house clean and dry.

       Rabbits need a lot of fresh air and sunlight. Cover the sides of the rabbit house only to protect it from rain.

       Rabbits eat mostly grass and leaves. Hang feeding containers on the outside of the house to let the rabbits eat whenever they want. They simply pull the grass and leaves through the holes in the fence.

       Each room should have fresh water. The water containers should be heavy so the rabbit cannot turn them over. Or you can tie the containers to the fence.

       One month after mating(交配), female rabbits give birth to about eight babies. In two months, a baby rabbit should weigh about two kilograms. This is big enough to make a meal for a small family.

       Rabbits are also valuable for their fur. It takes time, skill and money to prepare the fur and skin for use. If you have only a few rabbits, it probably would be best to let a tanner(制革工) prepare the fur for you. Skill is also needed to remove the fur from the rabbit.

       But rabbits do not have to be dead to be valuable. Many people enjoy keeping rabbits as friendly pets. And rabbit waste makes an excellent fertilizer(肥料). It can be mixed directly into the soil to improve the growth of vegetables, trees, and flowering plants.

1.The text is written mainly_______.

       A. to explain why rabbits are clean and quiet   B. to let people know more about rabbits

C. to tell readers how to raise rabbits         D. to introduce a small friendly animal pet

2.What is important if you raise rabbits?

       A. Holes are needed for waste to drop through.

B. Each rabbit must be given a separate room.

C. Each room must have clean water every day.

D. Feeding containers are hung on the fence.

3.Why should the holes in the wire fence be about one centimeter square?

       A. Because the holes let in sunlight.     B. Because rabbits like these holes.

C. Because rabbits get food from them.

D. Because waste of rabbits drops through the holes.

4.What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?

       A. You don’t have to kill rabbits to make more money.

B. Rabbits cannot be sold to make money when they are alive.

C. Rabbits are more valuable when they are alive.

D. Rabbits have to be killed to be more valuable.