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山西大学附中 2014---2015学年第一学期高二（12月）月考 英语试题 考试时间：80分钟 满分：100分 注意：本考试严禁使用手机，电子词典或其它电子存储设备，违者按作弊处理。 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共50分）：阅读理解（共1小题；每小题2分，满分0分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Fourteen-year-old Richie Hawley had spent five years studying violin at the Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles when he took part in a violin contest. Ninety-two young people were invited to the contest and Hawley came out first. The contest could have been the perfect setup for fear, worrying about mistakes, and trying to impress the judges. But Hawley said he did pretty well at staying calm. “I couldnt be thinking about how many mistakes Id make — it would distract me from playing.” he says. “I dont even remember trying to impress people while I played. Its almost as if they werent there. I just wanted to make music.” Hawley is a winner. But he didnt become a winner by concentrating on winning. He did it by concentrating on playing well. “The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part，” said the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin. “The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” A characteristic of high performers is their intense, pleasurable concentration on work, rather than on their competitors or future glory or money, says Dr. Charles Garfield, who has studied 1,500 achievers in business, science, sports, arts, and professions. “They are interested in winning, but theyre most interested in self-development, testing their limits.” One of the most surprising things about top performers is how many losses theyve had — and how much theyve learned from each. “Not one of the 1,500 I studied defined losing as failing，” Garfield says. “They kept calling their losses ‘setback’．” A healthy attitude towards setbacks is essential to winning, experts agree. “The worst thing you can do if youve had a setback is to let yourself get stuck in