Once the decision ____, the most important thing to do is how to carry it out.
A.has been made
B.made
C.been made
D.having been made
A.has been made
B.made
C.been made
D.having been made
(1)What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Values are priorities that tell you how to spend your time.
B. Values help one decline a job promotion.
C. The values list helps one make clear and consistent decisions.
D. Values have limitations when making decisions.
(2)What is NOT TRUE about the benefit of understanding your own values?
A. You can spend more time with your family.
B. You will gain tremendous clarity and focus.
C. It improves the results you get in those truly important areas.
D. You can consult them whenever you need to make a key decision.
(3)Under what circumstance one may need to make a key decision?
A. Where can you have your dinner with your family?
B. When will you have an appointment with a friend?
C. How can you get a seat in a concert?
D. Should you accept the new job you've been offered?
(4)How can you know what is most important to you when making a key decision?
A. By consulting your best friend.
B. By checking the prioritization of values.
C. By finding some useful books in a library.
D. By searching what other people do online.
(5)What is the goal one should keep in mind when making a decision?
A. To get more money.
B. To have more time with family.
C. To fulfill the highest values.
D. To get promoted quickly.
Ariely, a scientist from MIT, did an experiment on what people would do when 21 things that were free.He 22 a group of students two kinds of chocolates: the good one for 15 cents each and the poor one for l cent each.The good chocolate was worth $ 1.00, so 15 cents was very cheap,23 the poor quality chocolate was worth 5 cents, so24it for 1 cent wasn't very cheap.
Most people chose the high quality chocolate for 15 cents.That's not a 25 .But then Ariely lowered the 26 of both pieces of chocolate by 1 cent.If people were 27correctly, then they should 28choose the good quality chocolate.But that 29 what happened.Most people chose the free chocolate.This doesn't make sense in our 30 way of understanding economic behavior.
What is happening here? Ariely 31 that people want to get a good bargain.But they also want to reduce risk.That is,they want to 32 the chance of making a 33 .If you pay 14 cents for a piece of chocolate, and then you don't 34 like it when you eat it, you have lost 14 cents.But when something is free and you don't like it, you haven't lost anything.People would 35 not to take a risk over getting a better bargain.
(1)A、facing
B、buying
C、giving
D、treating
(2)A、posted
B、produced
C、offered
D、told
(3)A、if
B、as
C、for
D、but
(4)A、getting
B、holding
C、eating
D、making
(5)A、dream
B、reason
C、reply
D、surprise
(6)A、weight
B、size
C、price
D、quality
(7)A、working
B、thinking
C、planning
D、looking
(8)A、still
B、once
C、almost
D、even
(9)A、should be
B、shouldn't be
C、is
D、isn't
(10)A、easy
B、old
C、normal
D、modem
(11)A、questioned
B、explained
C、agreed
D、added
(12)A、find
B、learn
C、lower
D、take
(13)A、decision
B、mistake
C、promise
D、warning
(14)A、usually
B、gradually
C、certainly
D、actually
(15)A、start
B、prefer
C、manage
D、afford
As one grows older,
A.one" s comfort zone becomes narrower
B.one finds comfort zone more easily
C.one becomes more sympathetic
D.one behaves better in social gatherings
Sleep Deficit(不足)
Judging from recent surveys, most experts in sleep behavior. agree that is virtually an epidemic of sleepiness in the nation. "I can't think of a single study that hasn't found Americans getting less sleep than they ought to. " says Dr. David. Even people who think they are sleeping enough would probably be better off with more rest.
The beginning of our sleep-deficit crisis can be traced to the invention of the light bulb a century ago. From diary entries and other personal accounts from the 18th 19th centuries, sleep scientists have reached the conclusion that the average person used to sleep about 9. 5 hours a night. "The best sleep habits once were forced on us, when we had nothing to do in the evening down on the farm, and it was dark. " By the 1950s and 1960s, that sleep schedule had been reduced dramatically, to between 7. 5 and 8 hours, and most people had to wake to an alarm clock. "People cheat on their sleep, and they don't even realize they're doing it, " says Dr. David. "They think they're okay because they can get by on 6. 5 hours, when they really need 7. 5, 8 or even more to feel ideally vigorous. "
"Perhaps the most merciless robber of sleep, " researchers say, "is the complexity of the day. " Whenever pressures from work, family, friends and community mount, many people consider sleep the least expensive item on his program. "In our society, you're considered dynamic if you say you only need 5. 5 hours' sleep. If you've got to get 8. 5 hours, people think you lack drive and ambition. "
To determine the consequences of sleep deficit, researchers have put subjects through a set of psychological and performance tests requiring them, for instance, to add columns of numbers or re call a page read to them only minutes earlier. "We've found that if you're in sleep deficit, performance suffers, " says Dr. David. "Shot-term memory is weakened, as are abilities to make decision and to concentrate.
People in the 18th and 19th centuries used to sleep about 5 hours a night because they had ______.
A.no drive and ambition
B.no electric lighting
C.the best sleep habits
D.a lot to of the next day
A.make
B.made
C.to make
D.making
What were the effects of the decision she made?
A) reasons
B)results
C) causes
D)bases
A.instruction
B.decision
C.personnel
D.department