We human beings need to stay in touch with nature-many studies show how much better people feel when in sight of trees. Yet even more importantly，nature itself needs us to stay in touch. Many politicians and scientists have told us that we can "conquer" nature，but in reality nature will always be beyond our control---we do have the power to destroy it. The fate of all the animals and their habitats depends largely on our attitude towards them. Whether or not we ourselves survive depends on how well we look after the rest. For our sake as well as theirs，we need to consider it seriously.
But how can we care at all if we spend our lives indoors？Born in South London at the end of the Second World War，at least I knew what a sparrow was（they're rare now）and you couldn't put a spade into our tiny garden without cutting a worm in half. We knew，too，that milk comes from cows and that old men can grow amazing carrots on poor land. Ultra-urban（极度城市化）as we may have been，at least we were in touch.
"Now we have a generation who frankly are not in touch. So how can they care if the countryside is sold off to the highest bidders，and used to park helicopters，and our crops come free from Monsanto and our livestock live in factories？They will know no other way.
But if we settle for the ultra-urban life，if we allow all wilderness to be compromised and hand our farming over to industrial chemists then，quite simply，the world will fall apart--as it has been doing already. We have to rethink what agriculture is really for，and why conservation matters to us，as well as to other creatures. Changes of strategies begin with attitude and attitude begins with awareness.
1．Which of the following opinions will the author be for？| A．Technology will help humans control nature completely. |
| B．Conquering nature is the policy of human society. |
| C．Humans have to find a way to live in harmony with nature. |
| D．We will lose control of nature with the development of society. |
| A．were in close touch with nature |
| B．managed to survive in the war |
| C．killed the worms in the earth cruelly |
| D．had a healthier diet than us |
| A．modern agriculture doesn't need hard work |
| B．high profits can be made by selling city land |
| C．they are cut off from nature |
| D．livestock living in factories are tastier |
| A．a chemical fertilizer plant |
| B．a scientist good at farming |
| C．a construction corporation |
| D．a big agricultural company |
| A．move to the countryside |
| B．reflect on our past behaviors |
| C．leave space for wild animals |
| D．turn farms into big factories |
Yours,
Li Hue
| A．that; being | B．whom; / |
| C．who; is | D．which; to be |
The summer I turned 16, my father gave me his 69 Chevy Malibu convertible (敞篷车). Beautifully repainted cherry red with V-8 engine—it was a gift wasted on me at that age. What did I know about classic cars? The important thing was that Hannah and I could drive around Tucson with the top down.
Hannah was my best friend, a year younger but much taller, almost five foot ten.“Hannah’s a beautiful girl,” my mother always said. And sure enough, that summer she signed with a modeling agency. She was already doing runway work .
A month after my birthday, Hannah and I went to the movies. On the way home, we stopped at the McDonald’s drive-through, putting the fries on the seat between us to share. “Let’s ride around a-while,” I said. It was a clear night, oven-warm, full moon casting low over the desert. Making a turn too fast, l hit a patch of dirt and the back of the car slid to the other side. I then drove through a neighbor’s landscape wall and knocked into a full-grown palm. The front wheels came to rest half way up the tree trunk.
There were French fries on the floor, the dash (仪表盘), and my lap. An impossible amount of blood was on Hannah’s face, flaps of skin hanging into her eyes. They took us in separate ambulances. In the ER, my parents spoke quietly: “Best plastic surgeon in the city…but it is more likely to be the end of her modeling career.…”
We’d been wearing lap belts, but the car didn’t have shoulder bands. I’d broken my cheek bone on the steering wheel; Hannah’s forehead had split wide open on the dash. What would I say to her?
When her mother, Sharon, came into my hospital room, I started to cry, preparing myself for her anger. She sat beside me and took my hand. “I rear-ended (追尾) my best friend when I was your age,” she said. “I destroyed her car and mine.” “I’m so sorry.” I said, knowing Sharon was trying her best to comfort me and helping me out of my terrible sense of guilt and self-blame.
“The most important is that you’re both alive. I forgive you and Hannah will too.” She said.
Sharon’s forgiveness allowed Hannah and me to return to our normal life.
Think back to when you were in a maths classroom, and the teacher set a difficult problem. Which of the two following responses is closer to the way you reacted?
A: Oh no, this is too hard for me. I’m not even going to seriously try and work it out.
B: Ah, this is quite tricky, but I like to push myself. Even if I don’t get the answer right, maybe I’ll learn something in the attempt.
Early in her career, the psychologist Carol Dweck of Stanford University gave a group of ten-year-olds problems that were slightly too hard for them. One group reacted positively and loved the challenge. She says they had a ‘growth mindset’ and are focused on what they can achieve in the future. But another group of children felt that their intelligence was being judged and they had failed. They had a ‘fixed mindset’ and were unable to imagine improving. Some of them looked for someone who had done worse than them to boost their self-esteem.
Professor Dweck believes that there is a problem in education at the moment. For years, children have been praised for their intelligence or talent, but this makes them vulnerable (脆弱的) to failure. They become performance-oriented, wanting to please by getting high grades, but they are not interested in learning for its own sake. The solution, according to Dweck, is to lead them to become mastery-oriented (i.e., interested in getting better at something). She claims that the ever-lasting effort over time is the key to outstanding achievement.
Psychologists have been testing these theories. Underperforming school children on a Native American reservation were exposed to growth mindset techniques for a year. The results were nothing less than incredible. They came top in regional tests, beating children from much more privileged backgrounds. These children had previously felt that making an effort was a sign of stupidity, but they came to see it as the key to learning.
1．What can we learn about a person if his answer is closer to “B”?| A．He is performance-oriented. |
| B．He tends to set limits to his life. |
| C．He enjoys the process and focuses on the future. |
| D．He boosts his self-esteem by comparing with others. |
| A．To reward children for their high grades. | B．To emphasize the importance of intelligence. |
| C．To ignore the result brought by failure. | D．To praise children for their engagement in the process. |
| A．Children showing no interest in learning. |
| B．Children who use fixed mindset techniques. |
| C．Children from much more privileged backgrounds. |
| D．Underperforming school children on a Native American reservation. |
| A．To distinguish growth mindset and fixed mindset. |
| B．To inform readers of the importance of growth mindset. |
| C．To show several psychological study results. |
| D．To point out a problem in education at the moment. |
You might remember daydreaming during class when you were growing up. Maybe you looked out the window and dreamed, but your teachers discouraged it. As a matter of fact,
Contrary to what you may have been taught,
Daydreaming Lessens Stress and Anxiety
By tuning out the noisy “outside” world, you allow your thoughts to flow freely. This fosters mental relaxation and exploration.When our thoughts flow like this, we are in what is called the alpha wave state.When we are in the alpha zone, we are calm and not thinking of anything with forced vigor.
Research has established that daydreaming is correlated with higher levels of creativity. Take a break. The mind will still incubate on the problem.
Bianca L. Rodriguez says, “That’s why most of us have aha moments while doing mundane things like washing the dishes where we don’t have to focus too hard on the task at hand which allows space in our psyche to receive and reveal new information.”
Daydreaming Uses Diverse Parts of Your Brain
If you’ve ever noticed, children’s minds wander about constantly. It’s no secret that the young are daydreaming a lot. Yet, having your “head in the clouds,” as some people describe daydreaming, turns out to be more than a simple or diversionary pastime. As your mind wanders, you are using diverse aspects of your brain. Both the executive problem-solving network as well as the creativity network in your brain are working simultaneously.
So
Love, lust, joy, wildness, and a touch of the zany (小丑) — why is it that at many companies these are frowned on? Still, we know that the best (and worst) things in life are associated with strong feelings. The company that desires to be competitive in the future cannot deprive itself of the strengths associated with what we would like to call “economies of soul”. Scale and skill economies will still matter. But as Professor Manfred Kets de Vries at INSEAD (欧洲商学院) puts it, unless the resources that make people mad, sad, and glad, can be put to good use, knowledge is not used, it is abused. This is one of the main reasons why so many executives admit that as little as 10-15 percent of the intellectual capital at their companies is used properly. Most seem a bit embarrassed when admitting it, but somehow the average manager has gotten used to it and accepted that this is and should be. To survive in a surplus society, we believe it is vital to escape from a situation in which employment actually means “competence castration (删割).” Henry Ford once said: “Why is it that I always get a whole person, when what I really want is just a pair of hands?” Today, we need whole persons — head and heart, body and soul. Feelings and fantasy go hand in hand. Without soul, there can be only limited skill.
In relation to our customers the new trend means focusing on the extended experience, trying to look and think beyond the actual parts. As a Hewlett-Packard executive once remarked, sushi is cold, dead fish, but that isn’t how it should be marketed. So why, then, do so many companies persisting in selling cold, dead fish to consumers so much more interested in sushi? Think about when you last bought a PC. What were the sales arguments — price, performance, or power? We claim that in a true excess economy, all those are given. From a strict price/performance view it will not really matter which vacuum cleaner, TV set, VCR, or microwave you buy. They are all more or less equally good. Getting that stuff right only buys you a ticket to take part in the game. In the future, your company will win by appealing to the feelings and fantasies of the customer. Otherwise, you will have to deal with the demanding customers on a purely economic basis, which will without doubt result in zero profits as you will compete globally with an infinite number of other similar firms. In the age of affection, the way to create real profit is to attract the emotional rather than the purely rational consumers.
1．According to the passage, many companies may _______ people’s feelings like lust, wideness etc.| A．be unhappy about | B．be terrified of |
| C．be concerned with | D．be curious about |
| A．soul economy | B．scale economy |
| C．skill economy | D．classic economy |
| A．The employees have no motivation to work. |
| B．The employees’ emotions are often ignored. |
| C．The managers lack proper managing skills. |
| D．The managers find it too costly to do so. |
| A．today many employees are not so skillful as before |
| B．many employees just work with their hands |
| C．employees’ skills and emotions are of great importance nowadays |
| D．Henry Ford put “soul economy” into practice when choosing employees |
| A．high quality products can ensure a company’s success in competition |
| B．price, performance and power are equally important for a company |
| C．companies are facing more and more highly demanding consumers |
| D．companies have to take consumers’ emotions into account to succeed |
Sincerely yours,
Li Hua
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