常青树英语 四级(初二)·下
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Lesson 10
Improve Your Life

Guidance

If you improve your life with small changes today, the results will compound over time. 如果你在今天通过一点一滴小小的改变来提升自己的生活,那么它们一定会带给你惊喜。

1 How can we improve our life? Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say, "This is my destiny . I cannot change it."

2 Certainly not! You don't have to suffer too much. Your destiny depends on yourself, not on any other factors .

3 I know someone who says she just accepts what life gives her because she has done everything she can to improve it. Guess what her lifestyle is? She wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes back home, relaxes, chats with people, watches TV, then goes to sleep. Next day, the same routine cycle follows. Huh! Is this what she calls "doing her best" ? She believes she has tried her best. But in fact she hasn't.

4 Remember that you get what you pay. You just don't sit around and wait for a million dollars to fall from the sky. You have to get off the couch, get your eyes off the TV screen, and get your hands off the phone. Don't expect your luck to change unless you do something about it. If something goes wrong, don't just regard it as a little failure, but use it as feedback . Learn your lesson, make the most of the situation, and do something to solve the problem. It's not enough to think positively , you also have to act positively.

5 If someone's life is in the trouble, do you just hope that things will turn out fine? Of course not! You get to do anything you can to save the person. So it is with your own life. It is not enough to hope for the best, but you have to do your best. In other words, don't just stand (or sit) there, do something to improve your life.

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Practice

Ⅰ. Comprehension

1. According to the passage, if something goes wrong we should _____

A. suffer too much

B. regard it as a little failure

C. do something to solve it

D. sit around and wait for luck

2. What's the writer's attitude towards destiny?

A. We can't depend on ourselves.

B. We can change it.

C. We can't control it ourselves.

D. We must accept it.

3. We can learn from the passage that _____.

A. we can expect our luck to change

B. we can get what we pay if we think positively

C. we only need to hope for the best in our life

D. maybe our luck will change if we do something about the life

Ⅱ. Writing practice

After reading the passage, do you agree with the writer? What will you do to improve your life? Discuss with your partner and write something down about it.

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