A.Interact
B.react
C.activate
A.personal
B.current
C.ancient
D.social
Curiously, some twoandahalf years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term “downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of “have it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the pages of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.
I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her muchpublicized resignation from the editorship of She after a buildup of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of “juggling your life", and making the alternative move into “downshifting” brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status. Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12-hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on “quality time”.
In America, the move away from juggling to a simpler, less materialistic lifestyle. is a-well-established trend. Downshifting — also known in America as “voluntary simplicity” — has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might betermed anti-consumerism. There are a number of bestselling downshifting self help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans usefultips on anything from recycling their clingfilm to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid'90s equivalent of dropping out.
For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the '80s, downshifting in the mid'90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life — growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one — as a personal recognition of your limitations.
第67题:Which of the following is true according to paragraph 1?
A Fulltime employment is a new international trend.
B The writer was compelled by circumstances to leave her job.
C “A lateral move" means stepping out of fulltime employment.
D The writer was only too eager to spend more time with her family.
Her love and devotion for my brother and me made our lack of material possessions seem insignificant. Even today, if I were given a choice between having love at home and wealth, I would want it just the way I had it. I grew up poor in material things but rich in love.
Since my father was never around long enough to teach me physical things or to play games with me, I didn't succeed in any competitive sport. My mother did her best as a substitute, throwing a ball with me in the lot(空地) behind our house, but it wasn't the same. She was too protective of me, and I didn't have enough confidence in my own abilities to really try anything physically demanding.
The story suggests that the author is______his mother.
A.proud of
B.worried about
C.pitiful for
D.concerned about
James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare. She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family. Now she discovers another child is on the way. "How would you counsel that woman?" asked James.
"Have an abortion," the woman responded. "That child would have a very poor quality of life."
"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said. "The woman I described was my mother. I was the fifth of six children born into poverty. And, in case you're interested, the quality of my life is just fine!"
Kay James ______.
A.is not a black
B.is a poor black mother
C.has five brothers and sisters
D.has a hard life
Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boy friend, about how he experimented with drugs and was into other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boy friend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so frustrating that I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn't.I put the power of friendship to the ultimate test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had broken up with her boy friend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
What word best sums up Jennie's boy friend?
A.A drug user.
B.A loser.
C.A trouble maker.
D.A criminal.
It was strange to feel my past life almost __6__ away as I entered this brand-new phase of my life. I didn’t know how to __7__ myself during my first couple of months at Penn because everything that defined me was back in California. I felt __8__ from my college friends because they only knew the college me. How could they really know me without knowing what Mission Boulevard looked like late at night with the Niles hills in the background? How could they know me without knowing the friends who I had __9__ to Japan with or the friends I had gone to school with since kindergarten? How could they know me if they hadn’t met my family? How could they know me, or I them, if we didn’t know one another’s __10__ experiences?
A. drop B. journeyed C. unique D. define
E. complex F. realizing G. disconnected H. self-defining
I. drifted J. lying K. transition L. adjusted
M. fast-moving N. transported O. lack
A.loved the little girl more than anybody else
B.loved the little girl while her parents didn’t
C.was loved by the little girl only
D.was loved by all the children in her class
In my family it was always important to place blame when anything bad happened. But the Whites didn't worry about who had done what. Mr. and Mrs. White had six children: three sons and three daughters.
In July, the White sisters and I decided to take a car trip to New York. The two oldest, Sarah and Jane, were college students, and the youngest, Amy had recently got a driver' s license, and was excited about practicing her driving on the trip.
The big sisters let Amy take over. She came to an intersection with a stop sign, but Amy continued without stopping. The driver of a large truck, crashed into our car.
Jane was killed instantly.
When Mr. and Mrs. White arrived at the hospital, they hugged us all.
To both of their daughters, and especially to Amy, over and over they simply said, "We' re so glad that you're alive."
I was astonished. No blame.
Later, I asked the Whites why they never talked about the fact that Amy was driving and had run a stop sign.
Mrs. White said, "Jane's gone, and nothing we say or do will bring her back. But Amy has her whole life ahead of her. How can she lead a full and happy life if she feels we blame her for her sister' s death?"
They were right. Amy graduated from college and got married several years ago, She works as a teacher of learning-disabled students. She' s also a mother of two little girls of her own, the oldest named Jane.
The writer of the article is ______ .
A.Mrs. White's niece
B.the Whites' cousin
C.Sarah' s friend at college
D.Jane' s friend at school
Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there—moving from an ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior. I would have a life time of security if I stuck to it.Instead, I had made a decision to leave. I entered my boss’s office. Would he rage?I wondered. He had a famous temper. “Matt, we have to have a talk,” I began awkwardly.“I came to the Globe when I was twenty-four. Now I’m forty. There’s a lot I want to doinlife. I’m resigning.” “To another paper?” he asked. I reached into my coat pocket, but didn’t say anything. I handed him a letter that explained everything.It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. We were at a rare turning point in history. I wanted to be directly engaged in the change.“I’m glad for you,”he said, quite out of my expectation.“I just came from aboard of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can deal with. But much of it we can’t,” he went on.“I wish you all the luck in the world,”he concluded.“And if it doesn’t work out, remember, your star is always high here."
Then I went out of his office, walking through the news room for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody--even though I’d be risking all on an unfamiliar venture: all the financial security I had carefully built up.
Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into abillion-dollar property. “I’m resigning, Bill,” I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn’t looking angry or dismayed either. After a pause, he said,“Golly, I wish I were in your shoes.”
From the passage we know that the Globe is a famous 。
A.newspaper
B.magazine
C.temple
D.church
If the writer stayed with the Globe 。
A.he would be able to realize his lifetime dreams.
B.he would let his long favourite dreams fade away
C.he would never have to worry about his future life
D.he would never be allowed to develop his ambitions
The writer wanted to resign because .
A.he had serous trouble with his boss.
B.he wanted to be engaged in the new media industry.
C.he got underpaid at his job for the Globe.
D.he had found a better paid job in a publishing house.
When the writer decided to resign the Globe was faced with .
A.a trouble with its staff members
B.a shortage of qualified reporters
C.an unfavorable business situation
D.a promising business situation
By saying“I wish I were in your shoes”(in the last paragraph) Bill Taylor meant that .
A.The writer was to fail.
B.The writer was stupid
C.He would reject the writer’s request
D.He would do the same if possibl
"I get by with a little help from my friends" is a popular lyric(抒情诗) with age-old wisdom behind it. 【B1】______ people need people is something we have 【B2】______ understood, but more recent research has confirmed the relationship 【B3】______ good health and good social relationships. 【B4】______ infants, the lack of human interaction may 【B5】______ retard (阻滞) the development of intelligence. Adults who seek supportive social relationships find greater longevity(长寿) and have 【B6】______ chances of developing a disease.
Most of us 【B7】______ develop relationships to increase our life spans 【B8】______ to improve our minds and bodies. Such improvements are side 【B9】______ . Instead, most people seek relationships 【B10】______ others to feel love, gain companionship, or simply to have fun. Mutual interests can be a 【B11】______ for new relationships. A good 【B12】______ to find new friends is to get busy 【B13】______ the things you love to do. That way, you're 【B14】______ to meet more people who 【B15】______ a similar interest and a similar view of the world.
A good relationship helps you feel lovable and capable. It 【B16】______ as a support system, 【B17】______ you to develop your full potential 【B18】______ a person. One of the most 【B19】______ things you can do for friends is to help them develop their self-concept as they help you develop 【B20】______ .
A.Because
B.Which
C.That
D.Whether