撷墨教育 墨盒自考 Unit 1A 选文出自 P111 (201310 完形补文) Language is one of the things the sets us apart as beings, one of the things that essentially define us as humans. When language is used well it can elicit very deep feeling in others, motivate others to action and define the nature of our relationships. Sometimes in poetry the juxtaposition (并列) of two words or a certain phrase can bring tears to the eyes, call up a whole host of imagery and move us deeply. We have seen language recently used in the politics of persuasion, used for good or ill ---- depending on your viewpoint. When we use language to express our true feelings to someone it can open and deepen the connection between us. Language is a very powerful tool. How we use language shapes our world both internally and externally. How you use self-talk ---- what you say to yourself about yourself and about the world directly shapes your experience of both yourself and the world. How you deliver communication shapes the way the world responds to you. We can use language more effectively in both spheres: internal and external and directly influence the health and power of our personal relationships and our business relationships. 语言是把我们把其它生物区分开并且把我们定义为人的事物之一。当语言使用得很好时， 它能引起他人内心深处的情感、激发他人采取行动、并且定义我们关系的本质。有时在诗歌里， 并列的两个词或者某个短语会让人流泪，唤起大量的意象，让我们深受感动。我们已经看到最 近语言被用于说服政治中，用于善意或恶意——取决于你的观点。当我们用语言来表达我们对 某人的真实感受时，它可以打开并加深我们之间的联系。语言是一种非常强大的工具。我们如 何使用语言，这从内部和外部塑造了我们的世界。你如何使用自我对话——你对自己和世界的 看法直接影响了你对自己和世界的体验。你如何进行交流直接塑造了世界回应你的方式。我们 可以在两个领域更有效地使用语言：内部和外部，并且直接影响我们人际关系和商业关系的健 康和力量。 选文出自 P112 To become a flexible reader, you need to know how to select and use a reading style that is consistent with your purpose for reading. Knowing when and how to use different reading styles will make you a flexible reader. Study reading is the reading style used by flexible readers when their purpose is to read difficult material at a high level of comprehension. When using the study reading style, you should read at a rate that is slower than your normal reading rate. Furthermore, as you read you must challenge yourself to understand the material. Study reading will often require you to read material more than once to achieve a high level of comprehension. Sometimes, reading the material aloud will also help you improve your comprehension. 要成为灵活的读者，就要知道如何选择和使用一种与你的阅读目的相一致的阅读方式。知 道在何时和如何使用不同的阅读方式，能够让你成为灵活的读者。研究型的阅读，是在阅读困 难的需要高度理解的材料时，灵活读者所采用的阅读方式。当采用研究型阅读方式时，你就以 比平常要慢的阅读速度。而且在阅读时还要挑战自我，力求理解材料。研究型阅读常常需要你 反复阅读已达到高度理解。有时，大声朗读也会帮助你提高理解力。 1 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 选文出自 P112 As you learn the language, focus not only on the words and their meanings, but also on the way the words come together to make phrases. Learning how phrases come together in English will come with continued submersion in the language. For example, the word “kick” can mean many different things depending on how it is used in a phrase. When you say, “He kicked the ball”, you are using the word as a verb that means to strike the ball with the foot. On the other hand, you could say, “I get a kick out of that TV show.” This means that you enjoy the TV show, and has nothing to do with striking something with a foot. 你在学习语言的时候，不仅要专注于单词及其意思，而且还要专注于单词组合成短语的方 式。学习英语中的短语是如何组合在一起，这将伴随着在语言中的持续沉浸。例如，这个单词 “kick”能够表示许多不同的事，这取决于它是如何在短语中使用的。当你说“他 kick 球”，你把 这个词用作动词，意思是用脚踢这个球。另一方面，你可以说，“我 get a kick out of 电视节目 中。”这意思是你很喜欢这个电视节目, 并且和用脚踢什么东西无关。 Unit 1B 选文出自 P118 (2016 年 4 月填词补文来源) (2018 年 4 月完形补文来源) English plays an important role in the workplace and when used in the correct and appropriate manner, it can help boost a career or a business. Some may need or want to study business English before they start their careers. Those who are already working have the opportunity to see what they can and cannot do effectively in English in their current job. A valuable skill to have in business is how to negotiate. You need to know what you want, as well as how to bargain and make concessions. Being able to deal with a conflict and knowing how to end negotiations can make a big difference to the outcome. Workplace English learning will encourage professional and efficient communication, which translates as good service to customers and business partners or suppliers, which can only be a positive for any business. 英语在工作场所中起着重要作用，当以正确和适当的方式使用时，它可以帮助促进职业或 生意。有些人可能需要或想要在开始职业生涯之前学习商务英语。那些已经在工作的人有机会 在他们目前的工作中看到他们能够和不能用英语有效地做些什么。 在商业中有一项宝贵的技能是如何谈判。你需要知道你想要什么，以及如何讨价还价和做 出让步。能够处理冲突并知道如何结束谈判可以对结果产生重大影响。 职场英语学习将鼓励专业和有效的交流，这将为客户和商业伙伴或供应商提供良好的服务，这 对任何企业都是有利的。 选文出自 P119 Philip Randolph, the great African-American champion of labour and civil rights, led 2 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 confrontations with three very popular presidents. Mr. Randolph called for a march on Washington by thousands of African-Americans on July 1, 1941, if President Roosevelt would not take action to end discrimination in defense industries during World War II. Mr. Randolph was born in Florida. After much delay, the president met with Randolph, and one week later opened many defense jobs to black workers. A few years later, in 1948, Mr. Randolph threatened mass civil disobedience if president Truman did not end segregation against African-Americans in the military. On July 26, Truman approved the order that integrated the armed services. The last confrontation was with John F. Kennedy, who sought to stop the 1963 civil rights march on Washington. The march featured the Reverend Martin Luther King’s unforgettable “I Have a Dream” speech. 菲利普·伦道夫, 他是劳动和公民权利的伟大的非裔美国人的捍卫者，领导了与三位非常受 欢迎的总统的对抗。伦道夫呼吁：如果罗斯福总统不采取行动结束二战期间的国防工业的歧视， 那么成千上万的非洲裔美国人在 1941 年 7 月 1 日的华盛顿游行。伦道夫出生在佛罗里达州。 耽搁很久以后，总统会见了伦道夫。一周以后，向黑人工人开放了很多国防工作。几年以后的 1948 年，伦道夫威胁说如果杜鲁门总统在军事方面没有消除种族隔离, 要进行大规模的非暴力 反抗。7 月 26 日，杜鲁门批准了在军队中取消隔离的命令，最后一次对抗是和约翰·肯尼迪, 当 时约翰·肯尼迪正试图阻止 1963 年在华盛顿举行的民权游行。游行的主角是马丁路德金的令人 难忘的“我有一个梦”演讲。 Unit 2A 选文出自 P128 (2017 年 4 月完形补文来源) Lots of people don’t dare to make mistakes. They fear that they will be ridiculed or blamed by others. They fear that they will lose their money and belongings or be under a lot of stress. But risks are unavoidable and they do pave the way you must tread upon towards success. Have you ever heard of someone who achieves success without making any mistakes before? So it is only natural that making mistakes in your effort to reach your dreams is considered a must, and you shouldn’t worry about that as you may get a lot of advantages out of your mistakes. By making mistakes at least you then can distinguish between the correct and the incorrect portions of what you did. Anthony D’Angelo said: “In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what to do the next time”, and Robert Louis Stevenson even went to the extreme as to say: “Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” You needn’t worry about anything as long as you keep on going by wisely learning from your mistakes and trying even harder. 很多人不敢犯错误，他们害怕自己会被他人嘲笑或者谴责。他们害怕自己会失去自己的钱 和财物，或者承受很大的压力。但是风险是不可避免的，它们的确铺就了通往成功的必经之路。 你曾听说过有人没犯过错误就取得成功吗？ 所以，在你努力去实现梦想的过程中犯错误是必须的，这很正常的，你不应该担心，因为 3 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 你可以会从错误中获得很多好处。通过犯错至少你可以辨别你做的事情中正确和错误的部分。 安东尼·德·安吉洛说过：“为了成功，你必须先失败，以便你知道下一次该怎么做。” 罗伯特·路 易斯·史蒂文森甚至更加极端的说：“在我们的生活中不是要成功，而是要持续精神抖擞地去失 败。” 你不需要担心任何事情，只要你不停止前进，明智地从错误中学习，并且更加努力去尝试。 选文出自 P129 (2016 年 10 月填词补文来源) I clearly remember a period during which I felt like a failure. But what I eventually learned was that failing at one thing is not failing at all things. And, in fact, failure is a necessary part of growth. Life is filled with trial and error. In order to walk the path to success, you need to make some wrong turns along the way. What I learned, to use John C. Maxwell’s terminology, was to “fail forward”, to use each mistake to make myself better. One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind. A successful baseball player doesn’t look at an out that he makes and think of failure. He sees it within the context of the bigger picture. His perspective leads to perseverance. His perseverance brings longevity. And his longevity gives him opportunities for success. 我清楚地记得有段时间我觉得自己就是个失败者。但我最终学到的是，在一件事情上失败 并不是在所有事情上都失败。事实上，失败是成长的必要组成部分。生活充满了尝试和错误。 为了走上成功之路，你需要在前进的道路上做一些错误的转弯。我所学到的是，用约翰·麦斯 威尔的话说，就是“向前失败”，用每个错误让自己变得更好。人们对失败的最大问题之一是， 他们过于迅速地判断自己生活中的孤立情况，并将其贴上失败的标签。相反，他们需要牢记大 局。成功的棒球运动员不会把一次出局看作是失败。他是从全局的角度来看待它。他的这种观 点让他能够坚持到底。坚持带来了长远。长远使他有机会成功。 Unit 2B 选文出自 P137 There are several key abilities that allow successful people to fail forward instead of taking each setback personally. First, successful people don’t blame themselves when they fail. They take responsibility for each setback, but they don’t take the failure personally. Second, successful people don’t define themselves by individual failures. They recognize that each setback is a small part of the whole. Third, achievers are willing to vary their approaches to problems. That’s important in every walk of life. If one approach doesn’t work for you, if it brings repeated failure, then try something else. To fail forward, you must do what works for you, not necessarily what works for other people. Finally, successful people are resilient. They don’t let one error keep them down. They learn from their mistakes and move on. 4 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 有几种关键能力使得成功人士可以在失败中前行，而不是把每个挫折个人化。首先，成功 人士失败的时候不会自责。他们为每个挫折承担责任，但是他们不把失败个人化。第二，成功 人士不用个别的失败来定义自己。他们认识到每一次挫折都是整个过程的一小部分。第三，成 功人士愿意改变他们对待问题的方法。这对于每个行业来说都很重要。如果一种方法不奏效， 如果它带来反复失败，那么就要尝试别的方法。要在失败中前行，你必须做对你有用的事，不 一定是对别人有用的事。最后，成功人士是有韧性的。他们不会让一次错误压制自己。他们从 错误中学习，然后继续前进。 选文出自 P138 Finding a reliable used car at an affordable price requires both planning and persistence. A good starting point is narrowing down the type of car you want or need. Be realistic. You may envision yourself cruising around town in a little convertible, but that won’t leave much room for the kids and dogs. Once you’ve settled on the basic vehicle, do some research to find out which vehicles have good reliability ratings. The internet and books can help you pick out the high maintenance turkeys. The next step is finding the model you are looking for. Used car lots will give you an idea of price, but they can be expensive and full of used car salesmen. Check your local paper, car buyers’ magazines and the Internet. When you finally track down what looks good, arrange to have your mechanic inspect it. Never omit this step. After your mechanic gives the car the OK, all that’s left is to haggle over the price. 在可承受的价格下找到一辆可靠的二手车需要计划和坚持。一个好的起点是缩小你想要或 需要的车型。要现实一点，你可能会想象自己开着一辆敞篷车在小镇上游逛，但那样不会给孩 子和狗留下很多空间。一旦你选定了基本的车辆，做一些调查找出哪些车辆具有良好的可靠性 评级。因特网和书籍可以帮你挑选出维保成本太高的汽车。下一步是找到你要找的型号。二手 车市场会给你一个价格的概念，但是它们可能会很贵，也会有很多二手车销售员。查一下你当 地的报纸，汽车买家杂志和因特网。当你最终确定看起来不错的车，安排你的机械师检查一下。 绝不要省略这一步。当你的机械师说这辆车可以后，剩下的就是在价格上讨价还价。 Unit 3A 选文出自 P149 (2017 年 10 月填词补文来源) In the daily drama and comedy of our life, it’s nice to have friends. While family is extremely important, friends are a different support system of your choosing. As the saying goes, “You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.” Choosing them wisely can make your life more exciting and inspiring. Deciding whom you choose as your friends says as much about you as it does them. You may choose your friends based on similar interests. You may choose them because you’re both polar opposites of each other and find this interesting and intriguing. Often, friends become “friends” 5 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 because they naturally attract each other because of similar personalities and temperaments. Sometimes it’s just circumstances that bring two individuals together who then become friends. Whatever prompts a friendship, developing one is a very rewarding experience. This is especially true when, before you know it, a certain friendship turns into a unique lifelong close friendship. Again, it’s been said that a person normally has only a couple of very close friends in their life. Think of whom you consider as truly close friends. These are those select individuals you can trust and share deep thoughts and concerns with, without any reservations. 在我们生活的日常戏剧和喜剧中，有朋友很好。虽然家庭是非常重要的，但朋友是你的选 择中的不同的支持系统。俗话说，“你不能选择你的家庭，但是你可以选择你的朋友。”明智的 选择他们会使你的生活更加的振奋和鼓舞人心。 决定选择谁作为你的朋友，不仅表明他们是什么样的人，也说明你是什么样的人。你可能 会根据相似的兴趣去选择你的朋友。你可能选择他们因为你们是截然相反的并且你觉得这很有 趣。通常，朋友之所以成为朋友，是因为他们因相似的个性和气质而互相吸引。有时仅仅是环 境把两个人聚在一起然后成为朋友。 无论是什么促进了友谊，发展一段友谊是一种非常值得的经历。特别是不知不觉间，一段 友谊变成一份独特的终身的亲密友谊。而且，据说一个人一生中通常只有几个非常亲密的朋友。 想一下你认为谁是真正亲密的朋友。这些人是你可以信任和分享内心想法及担忧并且没有任何 保留的人。 选文出自 P150 It’s so easy to take good friends for granted. Like a comfortable pair of gloves, old friends wear well. But friendships that suffer from busyness and over-familiarity can’t afford to be neglected too long. They need renewal. If you want and need to keep true friendship alive and well, please, consider and think over a list of the most important qualities. Probably it will help you to understand why you and your best friends haven’t called up for ages, why you’re getting embarrassed while being asked “Whom are you going to have fun with this weekend?” You may neglect your intimate friends from time to time, but if you fail to cultivate these qualities -- loyalty, forgiveness, honesty, and dedication -- you can’t expect to keep true friends. 我们很容易就把好朋友认为是理所当然的。就如同是一副舒服的手套一样，老朋友经久耐 用。但是，忙碌和过度熟悉的友谊不能被忽视太久。它们需要更新。如果你想很好地保持真正 的友谊，请考虑和思考一份最重要的品质清单。或许它能帮你理解为什么你与好朋友已经多年 没有通电话，为什么你被问到“这周末跟谁一起玩”时会感到很尴尬。你可能时不时忽略你亲密 的朋友，但是如果你不能培养这些品质——忠诚、宽恕、诚实和奉献——你就不能指望有真正 的朋友。 Unit 3B 选文出自 P157 6 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 Now, your idea of a good friend is still the person who gives you the better of the two choices, holds your hand when you’re scared, helps you fight off those who try to take advantage of you, thinks of you at times when you are not there, reminds you of what you have forgotten, helps you put the past behind you, but understands when you need to hold on to it a little longer, stays with you so that you have confidence, goes out of their way to make time for you, helps you clear up your mistakes, helps you deal with pressure from others, helps you become a better person, and most importantly loves you! 现在，你认为好朋友仍然会把两种选择中更好的留给你；在你感到恐惧时握住你的手；帮 助你抗击那些试图利用你的人；当你不在时会想起你；提醒你忘记了些什么；帮你摆脱过去， 但如果你需要在过去中多停留一会儿，他也会理解；和你在一起让你有信心；特地为你腾出时 间；帮你澄清你的错误；帮助你处理来自他人的压力；帮助你成为一个更好的人；而最重要的 是，爱你！ 选文出自 P158 My little niece, a ten-month-old baby, is the most lovely child I have ever seen. Her face is like a red apple and her eyes are like bright stars. When you carry her in your arms, she likes to put her arms around your neck. All the grown-ups in the family love her very much and often try to make her smile. But quite often it is she who makes us laugh. Once I winked at her and she smiled. When I did it again, she watched me attentively. Then she tried to imitate. While I closed one eye to wink, she had to close both eyes at the same time, and then quickly opened them again. And that was her way to wink. We all burst into laughter. When we looked at her again, she was staring at us, puzzled, as if she were asking, “What are you laughing at?” We all love this gorgeous, cute little baby. 我的小侄女，一个十个月大的小宝宝，它是我见过的最可爱的孩子。她的脸像一个红苹果， 她的眼睛像明亮星星。当你把她抱在怀里时，她喜欢搂着你的脖子。家里面所有的大人都很爱 她，经常试着逗她笑。但常常是她让我们发笑。有一次我向她眨了眨眼，她笑了。当我再做一 次的时候，她用心地看着我。然后她试着模仿。当我眨一只眼睛的时候，她不得不同时闭上双 眼，然后又很快睁开了。那就是她眨眼睛的方式。我们都大笑起来。当我们再看她时，她正盯 着我们，疑惑不解，仿佛她正在问：“你们在笑什么？” 我们都喜欢这个漂亮可爱的小宝贝。 Unit 4A 选文出自 P168-169 We all get the Monday blues from time to time, but there are ways to improve your working life and be happy at work. If you’re going through a rough patch at work or are lacking job satisfaction, check out these ways to boost your mood and have a happier work day. If your workday often leaves you feeling stressed and overwhelmed, it is time to calm things down by getting more organized. Firstly, make sure you arrive a few minutes early for work to give you time to organize your tasks for the day and get mentally prepared. Secondly, organize your space by clearing 7 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 away any clutter and streamlining your workspace. Finally, make a list of everything that need to do that day in order of priority. If you can, try taking care of the more difficult things first to help take a weight off your mind. Variety is the spice of life, and this is never truer than when it comes to your working day. Following the same routine day in, day out can quickly cause boredom and dissatisfaction to set in, so try making every day a little different in any way you can. Try doing routine tasks in a different order, talking to someone new or taking a different route to work. If you really can’t shake up your workday itself, instead try organizing something fun and different to do on your lunch break every so often. 我们都会时不时地有星期一忧郁症。但是有一些方法可以改善你的工作生活并在工作中感 到快乐。如果你工作中正经历一段困难的时期，或者缺乏工作满意度，看看这些方法可以提高 你的情绪，让你拥有一个更快乐的工作日。 如果你的工作日经常使你感到有压力和不知所措，是时候变得有条理以让事情平静下来。 首先，确保你提前几分钟到达工作时间，让你有时间安排一天的工作，并做好心理准备。第二， 整理你的空间，要清除杂物和简化的工作空间。最后，按照优先顺序列出当天需要做的每件事 的清单。如果你可以，试着先处理一些比较困难的事情以帮助减轻你的压力。 多样性是生活的调味品，当谈到你的工作日时这再正确不过了。日复一日过着相同的生活 会很快引起厌倦和不满，所以试着尽可能让每一天都有一点不同。尝试以不同的顺序执行例行 任务，和某个新人聊天，或者选择不同的工作方式。如果你真的不能让你的工作日振奋起来， 那就试着时常在午餐时间组织做一些有趣和不一样的事情。 选文出自 P169-170 (2015 年 10 月完形补文来源) Whether you are waiting tables or a brain surgeon, any job you do is about serving others and making their life better on some level. We have all had experiences where someone working in their job has lifted us up and made a difference to our day or brought us down and made our day worse. We have all met wonderful people cleaning floors and people who are not so wonderful who have amazing jobs. So whatever your job, how do you bring love to work? Be grateful for your work. Being grateful doesn’t mean you have to stay in a job you don’t like but it will help you to develop a more positive mindset when you are there. You don’t like your job, but you may enjoy being with your colleagues. This is something to be thankful for. When you practice gratefulness it will really allow you to develop a more useful outlook and be happier at your work. 不论你是餐馆里的服务员还是脑外科医生，你做的任何工作都是服务他人，并且使他们的 生活在某个程度上过得好一点。我们都曾经有过这样的经历：一些在他们岗位上工作的人鼓舞 了我们，使我们的一天变得不同，或是让我们非常沮丧，使我们的一天变得更糟。我们都遇到 过非常优秀的人在做扫地的工作，而那些不太优秀的人却有着令人惊讶的好工作。因此，不管 你做什么工作，你如何把爱带入工作？要对自己的工作心怀感激。心怀感激并不是说要一直做 自己不喜欢的工作，心怀感激能帮你在那里工作时培养积极的心态。你不喜欢自己的工作，但 是你也许喜欢跟同事们待在一起。这就是应该感激的事。当你践行感恩时，它会让你形成一个 更有用的人生观，也能让你更满意自己的工作。 8 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 Unit 4B 选文出自 P178-179 Before you make up your mind about which way to go, take a hard, honest look at your motivation for starting a company. Too many are looking to get rich, escape the corporate grind, and work shorter hours with more free time. None of those reasons is likely to lead to success. If you are focused on solving a customer problem or need, believe you can do what you do better than anyone else, dying to work long hours, wear many hats, and juggle endless responsibilities, then you have the right startup mindset. You also need certain personality traits. One of them is a willingness to work very hard all by yourself, at least for the first year or so (and possibly longer). 在你决定走哪一种路之前，先仔仔细细、认认真真地审视一下你开公司的动机。太多人想 变得富有，逃避公司枯燥乏味的工作，更短的工作时间和更多的空闲时间。这些理由都不可能 带来成功。如果你专注于解决客户的问题或需求，相信你能够比别人做得更好；渴望工作很长 时间，身兼数职，承担无尽的责任，那么你就能有了正确的创业心态了。你还需要一些个性特 征。其中之一就是愿意独自努力工作，至少在第一年（也许更长时间）。 选文出自 P179 A first date can end up being categorized as a successful, a clingy, a boastful or an awkward one. Successful first dates include both parties expressing information about what they like, who they are, and so forth. Usually, these dates will end in tentative plans for a second one. Clingy (黏附的) dates end up with one of the parties practically begging for information about the other. However, the non- clinger is not interested. On boastful dates, one member of the duo (一对) talks about all of his or her skills, talents, and abilities. The listening end of the pair is never asked about his or her life. Awkward first dates generally involve lots of silence or one or both of the partners not knowing how to act appropriately. While many dates occur every day, they can generally fall into one of these categories. 第一次约会可能会最终被归类为成功的，粘人的，自夸的或者是尴尬的。成功的第一次约 会包括双方都要表达他们喜欢什么，他们是谁，等等。通常这些约会是以试探性的下一次的约 会计划而结束。粘人性的约会是以其中一方几乎一直在乞求另外一方的信息而结束。但不粘人 的那一方是不感兴趣的。在一个自夸的约会里，这一对里面的其中一方谈论的都是他或她的技 能，天赋和能力。而听的那一方从不被问及他或她自己的生活。尴尬的第一次约会通常包含很 多的沉默，或者一方或双方都不知道如何适当行动。虽然每天都有很多约会，但它们通常都可 以归入这些中的一类。 Unit 5A 选文出自 P201 9 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 The purpose of life is to satisfy the soul, and though acknowledging your accomplishments can help in this effort, it cannot take you the full distance. The only thing that can satisfy your soul is an answer to the question, who am I? You are an individualized expression of life, of greater consequence and magnitude than anything you will ever accomplish. When we focus on the fact that we are enough now, the beginning, the middle and the end of every journey -- whether it’s finding a mate or getting a better job -- is filled with a sense of well-being. We may complete an experience and even be thrilled by the outcome, but we know that we are no more complete than when we started out. You see, we are either enough right now or we’re not; and if we are, then we’re challenged, by our enoughness to live that way. The problem is, most of us don’t listen to the inner voice that says, “You’re enough because you exist.” We ignore it because being enough doesn’t fit the image we have of ourselves. We have spent so much time thinking of ourselves as not being enough that enoughness seems very far away. We may have a sense of being surrounded by the Life Force, but we forget that the Life Force is also within us. And if the Life Force is within us, we are enough. 生命的目的是为了满足灵魂,虽然认可你的成就能有助于这种努力，但它不能带你走完全程。 唯一能够满足你灵魂的是要回答，我是谁？你是生命的一种个性化表达，比你所能完成的任何 事情都更重要。 当我们专注于我们现在知足这一事实，每一段旅程的开始，中间和结尾——无论是寻找伴 侣，还是找到更好的工作——都充满了一种幸福感。我们可能会完成一段经历甚至会为结果而 激动，但我们知道，我们并不比刚开始时更完整。 你明白，我们现在要么知足，要么没有。如果我们知足，那么我们就会被我们的知足挑战 而去以那样的方式生活。 问题是，我们大多数人都不会听内心的声音说，“因为你存在，所以你是富足的。” 我们忽 略它因为知足并不符合我们对自己的设想。我们花了太多的时间来认为我们自己还不够，富足 似乎很遥远。我们可能有一种被生命力包围的感觉，但我们忘记了生命力也存在于我们体内。 如果生命力在我们体内，那我们就应知足。 选文出自 P202 Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything: animals, spiders, insects, etc. One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He took it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it never was able to fly. 从前，在一片遥远的土地上，有一个非常好的老人，他爱一切：动物，蜘蛛，昆虫等。一 天当他步行穿过树林的时候，这个好心的老人发现了一只蝴蝶的茧。他把它带回家。几天后， 10 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 出现了一个很小的开口，他坐下来观察了这个蝴蝶好几个小时，蝴蝶努力挣扎着让自己的身体 挤出那小洞口。接着它似乎不再有任何的进展。好像已经尽其所能，而不能再向前一步了。然 后这个老人决定帮助这只蝴蝶，所以他拿来了一把剪刀，把把茧的剩余部分剪掉。这只蝴蝶很 容易就出来了，但是永远都飞不起来。 Unit 5B 选文出自 P209 Walt Disney said “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”. You must first dare to dream, then from the dream comes a plan of action. Dreams are only dreams until they are put into action. For without action the dream will remain dormant and unfulfilled. Though obstacles will arise and moments of fear and doubt may wish to discourage, a dream to succeed becomes a reality with persistence and determination. If you ask any famous entrepreneur how they got where they are today, they would tell you by being persistent. Their success was the direct result of many failings. The best thing about failure is that it becomes an ingredient in the end result of a fulfilled dream. 沃尔特迪斯尼说：“我们所有的梦想都可以实现，如果我们有勇气去实现它们。” 你必须首 先敢于梦想，然后从梦想中得到一个行动计划。梦想只是梦想，直到付诸行动。因为没有行动， 梦想就会一直沉睡，无法实现。尽管障碍会出现，恐惧和怀疑的时刻可能会让人泄气，但一个 渴望成功的梦想伴随着毅力和决心会变为现实。如果你问任何一个著名的企业家他们是如何获 得今天的成功的，他们会告诉你是因为坚持不懈。他们的成功是许多失败的直接结果。失败的 最好之处就在于它是最终实现梦想的一个要素。 Unit 6A 选文出自 P218-219 Money management can actually be broken down into a very simple practice that even a fourth grader can do in his life. The basic step to being on your wealth path is knowing how much you can invest the rest. If you are already working, arrange with your company to direct a predetermined amount of your payroll into a forced savings fund and then you will learn to live with the rest. Ideally, the amount that is left for you to work with is smaller, and this particular practice is actually called “learning to pay yourself first”— despite bills and other payables, you will come first. The beauty of this money management practice to get you on the wealth path is that you will be forced to cut your wasteful spending. You will learn to live with what you have and figure out the little avenues in your life where you can stop the financial leaks. With this, you will find that you have extra money to invest with. Now that you have a sizeable amount, the next thing that you can do is figure out where to put the extras that have accumulated over time so you can generate money and make it grow with very little effort from you. There are many things you can find to put your money in. 11 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 金钱管理实际上可以被分解成一个非常简单的做法，甚至是一个四年级的学生在他的生活中 也可以做到。通向你财富道路的基本步骤是你知道剩下多少可以投资。如果你已经在工作，安 排你的公司将你的工资总额预先设定一个强制性的储蓄基金，接下来你将会学习用剩下的这一 部分来生活。理想情况下，留给你自己的数额是比较少的。这种特殊的做法其实被称为：“学 会先支付自己”。尽管有账单和其他的应付款，但你是第一位。 这种能让你走上财富之路的金钱管理做法的美妙之处在于你将被迫削减自己的浪费性开支。 你将学会用现有的条件来过日子，并且在生活中找出那些可以阻止金钱流失的小方法。这样你 会发现自己有额外的钱去投资。既然你已经有了一大笔钱，接下来你可以做的就是弄明白该把 这些随时间累积起的额外的钱放在哪里才能赚钱，并且不费什么力气就可以让它增长。你可以 发现有很多事可以投资。 选文出自 P219-220 Whether or not children are allowed to handle their own pocket money, parents and stepparents will surely be budgeting a certain amount of cash for their children’s everyday needs and wants. Kids don’t need a great deal of money, but ideally, they should have enough so that they can learn to spend some and save some. Many parents help children to learn about the importance of spending by asking kids to separate their money into at least three portions. One is for immediate spending, one for short term savings (outings, video games, etc.) and the third is for long term savings (a car, college, etc.). In some families, they add a forth category, which is for donating, teaching children the value and importance of helping those less fortunate. 不管是否孩子们被允许自己管理零花钱，父母和继父母肯定要预算出一定数额的现金来满 足孩子日常的各种需求。孩子们不需要太多钱，但是理想的情况是，他们应该有足够的钱以便 他们能学会花掉一些和存下一些。好多家长帮助孩子了解花钱的重要性，通过要求小孩把钱分 成了至少三份。一份是马上要花的钱，一份是短期储蓄（外出活动、电子游戏等等），第三份 是长期储蓄（汽车、大学等等）。在有些家庭里，他们还增加了第四种，用来捐款，这样教导 小孩帮助那些不幸的人的价值和重要性。 选文出自 P220 So what are some specific things you can do? For starters, if you aren’t a reader, you should start with that. Reading books can really expand your mind and allow you to learn so many different skills and gain knowledge that will help you in all areas of your life. You can also take course and attend seminars. These programs are taught by people who have spent decades figuring out how to make some aspect of their life work and now they are going to teach you how to do it. Of course, you want to do some research before you invest in some of these seminars and make sure you’re not just paying for some sales presentation. 所以你可以做什么具体的事情呢？对于初学者们，如果你不是一个读者，你就应该从阅读 开始。读书可以真正的拓展你的思维，让你学到很多不同的技能，获得知识，这对你生活的方 12 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 方面面都有帮助。你也可以参加课程和研讨会。这些课程的授课者花了几十年来弄清如何让他 们生活中的某些方面更有效，现在他们来教你如何做。当然，在你投资这些研讨会之前，你需 要做一些调查，确保你不只是因为一些(课程)销售推介而付费。 Unit 6B 选文出自 P226 How do people think of money? There is a truth that many people value money too highly. They think money is all and believe that “money is a passport to anything”. So they can do anything, even immoral and illegal things in order to have money. Robbers are ready to kill others cruelly for merely dozens of dollars. Traders are ready to cheat in commerce to appropriate more money. Officials themselves, who have much power and influence on society, trample on their honor and others’ interests. 人们是怎么看待金钱的？事实上，许多人过于看重金钱。他们认为金钱就是一切，相信“金 钱是万能的通行证”。因此，为了钱，他们可以做任何事情，甚至是不道德的和违法的事情。 劫匪仅仅为了几十美元就愿意残忍地杀害别人。商人为了获得更多金钱而愿意在生意中欺诈。 官员们拥有权力和对社会的影响力，他们践踏自己的荣誉和他人的利益。 Unit 7A 选文出自 P236-237 Our words have power, and our speech has the power to set the energy or the directions we choose in our lives. If we say good and positive things, good and positive things (experience) happen to us. These words give us the opportunity to experience life from a positive or optimistic point of view. If, on the other hand, we come from negativity and say negative things, accordingly, negative things happen to us or we end up seeing life as one big problem or disappointment. While we are all familiar with our external speech or voice, we also have another voice that we work with and interact with every day. This is our “inner voice”. While at first glance you may think: “what is inner voice?” But when you come right down to it, we are all familiar with our inner voice. Our inner voice is that small utterance that comes from deep within us, whose job it is to provide us with guidance. This is a different kind of communication than what comes from our normal waking consciousness, which I call our “analyzer”. When our analyzer is talking, the communication we receive tends to seem more like a nonstop conversation that goes on inside our heads all day and sometimes well into the night. 我们的言语充满力量，我们的讲话可以设定我们生活中的能量和选择的方向。如果我们说好 的积极的事情，那好的积极的事情就会发生在我们身上。这些话让我们有机会从积极或乐观的 角度去体验生活。另一方面，如果我们从消极的角度来说消极的事，相应的，消极的事情就会 13 / 28 关注公众号【墨盒自考】 撷墨教育 墨盒自考 发生在我们身上，或者我们最终会把生活看成是一个大麻烦或者失望。 虽然我们都很熟悉我们外部的言语和声音，但我们也有另一种我们每天打交道的声音。就是 我们的“内心的声音”。虽然乍一看你可能会想“什么是内心的声音？” 但当你开始正视它时， 我们都很熟悉我们内心的声音。我们内心的声音是来自心灵深处的微小话语，它的工作就是为 我们提供指导。这是一种完全不同于我们平常意识清醒时的交流，我把它称之为我们的“分析 仪”。当我们的分析仪在说话的时候，我们接收到的交流倾向于更像是一种不间断的谈话，在 我们的头脑中持续一整天，有时还会持续到深夜。 选文出自 P237-238 Your inner voice is there to help guide you along the path called life. How many t