If Leah is 6 years older than Sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of t
A.8
B.10
C.14
D.19
E.21
A.8
B.10
C.14
D.19
E.21
From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change
[A] At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change. Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers. Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.
[B] We recently caught up with yoga entrepreneur Leah Zaccaria, who put herself through the fire of change to completely reinvent herself. In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home, hi the process, she built a radically new life and career. Since then, she has founded two yoga studios, met a new life partner, and formed a new community of people. Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.
[C] Where do the seeds of change come from? the Native American Indians have a saying: “Pay attention to the whispers so you won’t have to hear the screams.” Often the best ideas for big changes come from unexpected places — it’s just a matter of tuning in. Great leaders recognize the weak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come. Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: “About the time my daughter was five years old. I started having a sense that ‘this isn’t right.”’ She then realized that her life no longer matched her vision for it.
[D] Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success. After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby. “I did what everybody else thought looked successful,” she says. Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.
[E] Feeling the need to change, Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interests and developing new capabilities. First trying physical exercise and dieting, she lost some weight and discovered an inner strength. “1 felt powerful because 1 broke through my own limitations,” she recalls.
[F] However, it was another interest that led Leah to radically reinvent herself. “I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio,’’ she said, having a moment of clarity right then and there: Yoga is saving my life. Yoga is waking me up. I’m not happy and I want to change and I’m done with this.” In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap,conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.
[G] Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that come your way. When Leah made the commitment to change, she primed herself to new opportunities she may otherwise have overlooked. She recalls:
[H] One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, “Leah, let’s go look at this space on Queen Anne.” He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio. As soon as I saw the location, I knew this was it. Of course I was scared, yet I had this strong sense of “I have to do this.” Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.
[I] Creating the future takes time. That’s why leaders continue to manage the present while building toward the big changes of the future. When it’s time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what’s no longer serving their purpose. Initially Leah stayed with her accounting job while starting up the yoga studio to make it all work.
[J] Soon after, she knew she had to make a bold move to fully commit to her new future. Within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete. Such drastic change is not easy.
[K] Steering through change and facing obstacles brings us face to face with our fears. Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: “I was probably up against the most fear I’ve ever had,” she says. “I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, but within six months I was facing the prospect of losing it all.”
[L] She connected with her sense of purpose and dug deep, cultivating a tremendous sense of strength. “I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasn’t going to let fear just take over. I was thinking, ‘OK, guys, if you want to try to shut me down, shut me down.’And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.’” By naming her fears and facing them head-on, Leah gained confidence. For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear. Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did,can help us act decisively.
[M] The cycle of renewal never ends. Leah’s growth spurred her to open her second studio— and it wasn’t for the money.
[N] I have no desire to make millions of dollars. It’s not about that; it’s about growth for me. Honestly, I didn’t need to open a second studio. I was making as much money as I was as an accountant. But I know if you don’t grow, you stand still, and that doesn’t work for me.
[O] Consider the current moment in your own life, your team or your organization. Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we’re on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.
36. Readiness to take advantage of new opportunities will make it easier to create one’s desired future.
37. By conventional standards, Leah was a typical successful woman before she changed her career.
38. Leah gained confidence by laying out her fears and confronting them directly.
39. In search of a meaningful life, Leah gave up what she had and set up her own yoga studios.
40 Leah&39;s interest in yoga prompted her to make a firm decision to reshape her life.
41. Small signs may indicate great changes to come and therefore merit attention.
42. Leah’s first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.
43. Some people regard professional change as an unpleasant experience that disturbs their stable careers.
44. The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.
45. As she explored new interests and developed new potentials,Leah felt powerful internally.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: About 1,000 supporters of the suspended Solidarity Labour Union have held a demonstration in the western Polish city of Posses, The demonstrators called for the release of jailed Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. The demonstration followed an official ceremony to mark the anniversary of a workers' revolt in Posses 26 years ago.
The demonstrators demanded ______.
A.for the release of jailed Solidarity leader Leah Walesa
B.to suspend the Solidarity Labour Union
C.to mark the anniversary of a workers' revolt
D.for the punishment of those killers
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Britain's Dean Durrant and his wife Alison Spooner are the luckiest people in the world because (26)they produced two sets of "black-and-white twins" within seven years. A mixed-race couple who had one black and one white twin daughter seven years ago have described how they defied the odds and did it again.
The newly-born twins were named Miya and Leah respectively. Miya has her father's black skin and Leah is white like her mother. When the first set of twins arrived in 2001, the couple were astonished to see that blueeyed, red-haired Lauren takes after her mother while (27) the older sibling Hayleigh has black skin and black hair like her father.
Alison Spooner told Sky News, "I honestly didn't think it would happen again. I thought we would have two the same, either black or white, and I didn't think we would have twins again for a start. That was a shock. "
Mr. Durrant said (27)he began to suspect they were different colors when second-born Miya arrived. He explained, "I was sure in my mind there was a difference but I didn't, think it was as much as with Hayleigh and Lauren, but obviously it is."
Miya and Leah were delivered at Frimley Park Hospital at just 37 weeks of pregnancy. (28) The babies were taken to a special care unit because they were not breathing properly so it took five days for the parents to see them side by side.
Carol Cooper, author of a book on twins, said there was a two in a million chance of a second set of twins like the Durrant girls.
(27)
A.They have four daughters.
B.They are from America.
C.The husband has red hair.
D.The wife is black.
A.Lauren, Heyleigh, Miya and Leah.
B.Lauren, Heyleigh, Leah and Miya.
C.Heyleigh, Lauren, Leah and Miya,
D.Heyleigh, Lauren, Miya and Leah.
A.love
B.betrayal
C.denial of love
D.——
听力原文: In the United States, (29) boys and girls start school when they are five years old. In some stales they most stay in school until they are sixteen. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they graduate from secondary school.
Most children go to public elementary and secondary schools. The parents of public school pupils do not have to pay directly for their children's education because (30)tax money supports the public schools. If a child attends a private school, his parents pay the school for the child’s education.
Today about half of the high school graduates go on to colleges and universities. Some colleges and universities receive tax money from the government. A student at a state university does not have to pay very much if his parents live in that state. Private colleges and universities are expensive, however. (31) Almost half of the college students in the United States work while they are studying. When a student's family is not rich, he has to earn money for part. of his college expenses.
(30)
A.At 5 years old.
B.At 6 years old.
C.At 7 years old.
D.It's not clear.
M Gina, you should go to Jimmy's Garage. I take my car there all the time. They have 20 years of experience and they are especially good at repairing older cars.
W Thank you, the last time I took my car to a garage, they didn't really fix anything.
M Well, you should still call and make an appointment today. They do a good job. They're usually not busy after 6 o'clock.
What is the woman's problem?
A.The woman's car is making noise.
B.The woman's car engine needs to be fixed.
C.The woman locked her keys in her car.
D.The woman's car has a flat tire.
A) scrape
B) scratch
C) explore
D) exploited
E) consent
F) consultant
G) bribe
H) positively
I) exchange
J) investigation
K) accounting
L) undiscovered
M) unveiled
N) shielded
O) negatively
In the past several years, many news stories about corporate greed have come to surface. The illegal practices of some executives have(1)impacted our economy. What makes this worse is that these executives seem to have the(2)of some political leaders. Some of the executives even(3)lawmakers. Recently a member of Congress from California was caught demanding gifts from interest groups in(4)for supporting new laws. A few top leaders in the government are under(5)for illegal activities. This doesn't even(6)the surface of the problem. A few years back a company made many purposeful(7)errors to fool investors. Many believe that one reason the problem became so big was that our nation's top leaders(8)the company. By the time the truth was(9), many innocent people had lost their entire savings. There seems to be more and more companies that(10)the public's trust for their own interests. This calls for laws and strict regulations to put the illegal practice to an end.
It's a shame that he is still ______ his parents; he is already 25 years old.
A.depending on
B.growing on
C.focusing on
D.feeding on
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