郑州市2019年高中毕业年级第一次质量预测——英语课件.docVIP

郑州市 2019年高中毕业年级第一次质量预测 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A 、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A A month ago, I broke a nail. My other nails looked amazing, but now one was a mess. Clearly, there was no point in keeping the others, so I took out the nail scissors to cut them all off. “What are you doing, Mom? ” my daughter cried. “Your nails l o ocku tgtrheeamt ! D! on ” ’t “But they ’re ruined, ” I said, waving the broken one in her face. “They ’re not ruined, ” she said. “You still have nine nails left! ” I hesitated, with the scissors still in my hand. My nails certainly weren anymore, and ’t perfe the opposite of “perfect ” is “ruined ”, right? I methainn,kthaibsoius thmowosIt things: It ’s all or nothing. Take my finances for example. I can spend weeks being sensible and buying only essential items, such as food for my family. And then one day, I ’ll see something expensive that I really likebuayndit. Then, I think to myself “Well, I already spent $100 on that dr ess last week, so I may as well spend $ 50 on this lipstick （口红）” and give up saving entirely. I ’ve thought about why I act this way, but I don ’t know what causes this behavior. I seem to go from “good ” to “complete disaster ” in a matter of mom My brain only sees “perfoerct “”disaster ”, which is extremely unhelpful. We humans are never just good or bad — we are far more complex. We have wins and we have losses and, occasionally, they are hard to tell apart. Some people understand this instinctively （本能地） , while others struggle. For most of us, learning not to do the thing we’reused to requires effort and discomfort. However, we should remind ourselves that we sometimes make mistakes, and that this doesn mean w e’’t ve failed. We need to accept that things will sometimes go wrong. Indeed, failure is part of life. We all fall occasionally, and we normally get straight back up. And so, with my daughter ’s words ringing in my ears, I decidekdeetop my nine nice nails. I