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27. Parents and teens want to be right because they want to _____. A. give orders to the other C. gain respect from the other
B. know more than the other D. get the other to behave properly
28. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows? A. Causes for the parent-teen conflicts. B. Examples of the parent-teen war. C. Solutions to the parent-teen problems.
C
I want to be a writer, an inventor, a social worker, and mayor of New York City. My future is no great mystery (谜) to me, and yours doesn’t have to be a mystery either! All it takes is a goal, a little planning, and a lot of self-confidence.
I get excited when I think about what I can do, and so should you. Every dream can become a reality if you work at it. You don’t have to limit yourself to doing just one thing. I want to do lots of things, like Benjamin Franklin. He was a writer, an inventor, a politician, and a scientist.
Having a goal, something you really want to do, is a good place to start in solving the mystery of your future. It gives you something to work toward. Your goal may seem impossible at first, but if you break it down, it won’t seem so hard. Remember, a goal is something you really want to do, not what someone else wants you to do.
Other people can help you figure out your future, too. People who do what you want to do are your greatest resources. To find out what they do, you can volunteer to help them, do an internship, or even just talk to them. Visiting your parents’ jobs, going to career fairs, and taking part in after-school programs are other good choices. The Internet and the library are great places to research organizations and programs for young people. You can also read biographies of people who inspire you, which can help you see how other people reached their goals. If you’re not certain about your future, explore different careers by asking yourself what you really like to do.
Be realistic when you make your goals but allow a little room for dreaming. Remember, it’s OK you’re your future to be a little mysterious. That’s what makes it so exciting. Someday you may be an astronaut, a carpenter, an ambassador, a writer, a ballet dancer, or whatever else interests you. You may even do it all!
29. According to the author, which is a good way of carrying out a plan to achieve a goal? A. To work on several plans at once.
B. To break it down into manageable D. Future of the parent-teen relationship.
steps.
C. To daydream about a satisfactory outcome. D. To spend a few minutes planning every day.
30. What is the author trying to do in Paragraph 4 of the selection? A. To make reader know useful resources. B. To inform the reader about the workplace. C. To encourage the reader to do well in school. D. To try to persuade the reader to try several careers.
31. Which activity would help a person to be realistic when he makes his goal? A. Following people one admires. C. Writing about hopes and dreams.
B. Feeling attracted to different careers. D. Seeking information about careers.
32. What is the effect of listing many different jobs in the opening and closing paragraphs? A. It proves there are many reasonable goals. B. It encourages people to focus on one goal. C. It stresses the many exciting career choices. D. It shows how the author combines all these careers.
D
When I was a little girl, my mother told me to wait for the light to turn green before I crossed the street. This I did. Indeed, I was positive as a young child that I would get crushed like a potato if I ever stepped a foot off the sidewalk while the light was red. I followed my mother’s advice until I realized that she herself went through red lights always pulling me with her. So after a while I followed her example and not her advice.
And this was just part of the story. I was out of high school before the picture began to pull together. I absorbed the knowledge little by little through the years. And me, my friends and I, did come to take it for granted. Parents were that way. Older people were that way. And most of us accepted it as part of life.
Now I am grown up and I have my own children. For the longest time I pulled my little daughter across the middle of the street — just like my mother used to do — warning her, “Don’t do this when I’m not with you.”
Webster says such behavior is hypocrisy(虚伪), that is, pretending to be better than we are. Is this because we always want to be better? Or only that we want to fool people into thinking that we are? When we practice a religion which causes a concern for our fellow men, do we purposefully