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Ⅰ.閱讀理解

(2015·河北省五個一名校聯(lián)盟質(zhì)檢)You've probably heard about sports coaches，fitness coaches，voice and music teachers，career counselors，psychiatrists (精神科醫(yī)師) and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.

But there's a rapidly growing kind of professionals who do a little bit of everything.She or he is called a “l(fā)ife_coach”.People who are at the crossroads in their life，and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost，are turning to them for help.

The idea that one person's success story can change other people's life for the better goes back at least to the 1930s.Dale Carnegie's famous self­improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.

But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers.They use their own experiences in business，sports，military service，or psychotherapy (心理療法) to help others make critical life decisions.They often give their approaches a slogan，such as “energy coaching”“fearless living” or “working yourself happy”.

Dave Lakhani in Boise，Idaho，for instance，works with salespeople to develop what he calls a “road map”.He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for one's career and life outside work.

Lakhani's Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful—including battered women and struggling single mothers.

But others in the so­called “helpful professions” are not thrilled about the life­coaching movement.They say that anyone，trained or untrained，can call himself or herself a life coach，and these slick (華而不實的) promoters who mess with people's life can do more harm than good.

1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.Working Yourself Happy

B.Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions

C.How to Cope with Daily Life with Life Coaches

D.The Life­coaching Movement

2.The underlined phrase “l(fā)ife coach” in Paragraph 2 means “________”.

A.the career counselor who teaches skills

B.the psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily life

C.the fitness coach who teaches us lessons

D.the specialist who helps us make important life decisions

3.The last paragraph is mainly about ________.

A.the introductions of life coaches

B.the disagreements about life coaches

C.the effects of life coaches

D.the experiences of life coaches

4.What is the author's attitude towards life coaches?

A.Cautious.　　　　 B.Approving.

C.Casual. D.Disapproving.

答案：

解題導(dǎo)語：當(dāng)你處于人生的重要時刻時，當(dāng)你想讓公司里某些職員的事業(yè)得以提升時，你可以求助于人生教練，他們能幫助你做出人生中的重大決定。

1.B　解析：標(biāo)題判斷題。本文主要介紹了人生教練正成為受人們歡迎的專業(yè)人才，他們能幫助那些面臨人生重大抉擇的人們做出決定。B項最具有概括性。

2.D　解析：詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第二段的最后一句“People who are at the crossroads in their life, and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost, are turning to them for help.”及第三段的內(nèi)容可知，“l(fā)ife coach”是指幫助我們做出人生重大決定的專家。

3.B　解析：段落大意題。根據(jù)最后一段中的“They say...can do more harm than good.”可知，一些人對人生教練持否定的態(tài)度，認為人生教練可能給人們的生活帶來的傷害大于益處，因此選擇B項。

4.A　解析：觀點態(tài)度題。作者在文章中客觀地對人生教練進行了介紹，既介紹了他們的職業(yè)優(yōu)勢，也提及了一些人對他們的否定態(tài)度，因此作者對人生教練的態(tài)度是嚴謹?shù)�。cautious“嚴謹?shù)模�謹慎的�?approving“贊成的”;casual“隨意的，漠不關(guān)心的”;disapproving“不贊成的”。