2016年《全程复习方略》人教版大一轮总复习 课时提升作业 选修6 Unit 5 The power of nature.docVIP

课时提升作业(三十) 选修6　Unit 5 (建议用时25分钟) Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg made a speech at Harvard University’s 2014 Class Day Ceremony, a day of the commencement(毕业典礼)season in which the senior class celebrates completing its course. This is an edited excerpt(摘录): As you open yourself up to possibility, the most important thing I can tell you today is to open yourself up to honesty. To telling the truth to each other, to being honest with yourselves, and to being honest about the world we live in. If you watch children, you will immediately notice how honest they are. My friend Betsy was pregnant with her second son. Her son Sam was 5. He wanted to know where the baby was in her body. So he asked mommy: “Are the baby’s arms in your arms? ”“No, Sam, baby’s body is in my tummy(肚子), whole body. ”“Are the baby’s legs in your legs? ”“No, Sam, baby is all in my tummy. ”“Then mommy, what is growing in your butt(屁股)? ” As adults, we are almost never this honest, and that can be a very good thing. At the age of 24, I married a wonderful man, but I had no business making that kind of commitment. I didn’t know who I was or who I wanted to be. My marriage fell apart within a year. Something that was really embarrassing and painful at the time, and it did not help that so many friends came up to me and said: “I never thought that was going to work”, or“I knew you two weren’t right for each other”. No one had managed to say anything like that to me before I walked down the aisle when it would have been far more useful. And as I lived through those painful months of separation and divorce, I wished they had, and I wished I had asked them. At the same time in my professional life, someone did speak up. My first boss out of college was Lant Pritchet, an economist who teaches at the Kennedy school who is here with us today. After I deferred law school for the second time, Lant sat me down and said: “I don’t think you should go to law school at all. I don’t th