Although most people believe that owning a business or working on an idea means you are an entrepreneur (企业家), the reality is that entrepreneurship is so much more than just these two things. It is about the ability to innovate (创新) by helping society progress. For those who aspire

to become real entrepreneurs, the path to turn your thought into entrepreneurship is one that requires you to know yourself.

Recognize what skills you are good at. Everybody wants money. But many fail to realize that money is the extension ( 延伸) of your skills, so the most important aspect of learning to make

money starts by knowing what skills you have. Make a list of your skills and you should see where your strengths lie. The goal with this exercise is to recognize what skills you are good at naturally. Make good use of them until you finally change more of your skills into usable abilities for your business.

Make use of your confidence to create belief. Confidence is a result of repeating one thing. The more you practice doing something, the more confident you become in the process needed to see it to the end . Starting a business requires confidence, so most people who have zero confidence in the process fail to get started because it is an unknown area. You have to believe in the idea, the process and the ability within yourself to bring your business project to life. Without confidence, belief doesn't exist; without belief, the chances of giving up are high.

Allow your love to become enthusiasm. The last ingredient outside of your skills and confidence is the ability to focus on ideas that you feel enthusiastic about. Having passion will push you to struggle for something you love and turn that longing into action. The goal is to identify topics of interest so that you can start showing some aspects of passion as you start your project. The closer a project is to your heart, the less pessimistic you will become when results don't go your way.

56. The underlined word \ .

A. want B. hate C. turn D. face

57. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

A. It is very difficult for us to know our skills.

B. Knowing your skills is the first step to learn to make money.

C. To recognize your skills will surely make your business successful. D. To recognize your skills is more important than making money. 58 . When getting to an unknown area, most people fail because

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A. their ability is limited

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B. they have no confidence to start

C. they are likely to repeat one thing

D. they don't have enough money to support themselves

59. What's the importance of enthusiasm for us?

A. It can help us find out what we love. B. It can make us never feel pessimistic.

C. It can push us to work hard on our goals.

D. It will make us succeed in whatever we are doing.

60. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A. The advantages of confidence. B. The ability to focus on ideas.

C. Why people want to be an entrepreneur.

D. How you can go from ideas to an entrepreneur.

C

Nowadays, we live in a strict and judgmental world where people are quick to point out the faults of others yet seem to ignore their own ones. Some misguided souls believe they have a moral duty to help you be a better person telling you what a failure you really are.

If you're the one placing criticism upon others, please stop. Make a conscious decision, rather than focus on the negative aspect of a person's performance or attitudes, and you can offer helpful suggestions. If I'm painting a living room and making a mess in doing so, I'd have my husband say to me, “This is a tough job. Can I offer a suggestion that might make it easier for you?” rather than have him point out what a careless painter I am.

If you're on the receiving end of criticism, the “OK” response is a perfect solution. When someone comments negatively on a task you're doing, the natural response is to defend and attack.

However, this approach is rarely effective as it puts both parties on the defensive. It diffuses (扩散)

a potentially explosive situation. It's important to keep calm and listen without feeling, to be an objective observer. There is much that one can learn from a negative review. You can ask yourself: Could I have done better, and been more thoughtful? Did I give 100% of myself to the task at hand? Is there any truth in what the other person says? If so, how can I improve?

In any event, one should remember the saying, “Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.” One can learn to be “OK” with criticism and not allow it to negatively impact his or her relationship with the other party. Let it go and that will be “OK”. 61. According to the author, today's people

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A. ignore the mistakes of others

B. focus on how to handle mistakes

C. like to point out the mistakes of others

D. have a moral duty to point out others' faults

62. In Paragraph 2, the author uses the example to show

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A. pointing out a fault needs a skill

B. It's hard to avoid making mistakes

C. we ought to accept others' criticism

D. praise is more important than criticism

63. What is the proper response to criticism in the author's opinion?

A. Paying no attention to it.

B. Learning something from it.

C. Making excuses for your mistakes. D. Defending and attacking sometimes.

64. Why should you ask yourself some questions mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A. To comfort yourself.

B. To find out your potentials.

C. To make yourself become better.

D. To persuade yourself to admit your mistakes.

65. Which would be the best title for this passage?

A. Is criticism really necessary?

B. What can you learn from criticism?

C. What's the best way to voice criticism? D. How to criticize and reply to criticism?

D

Sometimes we may find that every week there are a lot of new stories about how climate change is affecting the planet, or new plans to battle its effects like the one announced by President Barack Obama the other day. But the concept itself isn't new at all --- in fact, scientists have been exploring questions about climate change for almost 200 year.

The idea of “greenhouse gases” goes back to 1824, when Joseph Fourier wondered what was regulating the earth's temperature. Fourier concluded that the atmosphere must be responsible for containing the heat absorbed from the sun and described it as a box with a glass lid: As light shines through the glass, the inside gets warmer

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as the lid traps the heat. As Fourier's ideas spread, it came to be called “the greenhouse effect”.

Scientists continued to study the greenhouse effect. Until a Swedish chemist named Svante Arrhenius came along, scientists understood how global warming actually works. After years of work, Arrhenius determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere did in fact have a direct effect on global temperatures.

Arrhenius found that CO2, and other gases trap radiation, which warms the atmosphere. Arrhenius was the first to suspect that burning coal could contribute to the greenhouse effect. But Arrhenius welcomed the warming effect on the planet. At a lecture later that year, Arrhenius noted that creatures of a warmer earth “might live under a milder sky and in less barren surroundings”.

While Arrhenius' findings won him the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry, scientists kept debating whether the greenhouse effect was increasing until 1950, when researchers finally began to find strong data supporting it. By the end of the 1950s, American scientists had been sounding the alarm on the long-term consequences of climate change. Climate change research has come a long way since Fourier first described the greenhouse effect – still, maybe Arrhenius should have been more careful of what he wished for.

66. What can we know from Paragraph 1?

A. Climate change has caused terrible disasters.

B. The topic of climate change has been talked a lot.

C. Scientists should work harder to research climate change.

D. The whole world should cooperate to protect the environment.

67. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. The atmosphere. B. The idea. C. The earth.

D. The earth's temperature.

68. What's the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A. Serious consequences of climate change.

B. The history of studying the greenhouse effect.

C. Significant research findings about climate change. D. Scientists' doubts about the cause of global warming.

69. What did Arr henius think of the greenhouse effect?

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