1、Unit 7 Attitude Towards LifeWord Pretest1. I did not easily lose temper, but he kept me waiting for three hours and it was intolerable. intolerable a. too bad or unpleasant to deal with or accept 無法容忍的，不能接受的無法容忍的，不能接受的 intolerably ad.2. A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly

2、induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth. induce v. to cause something to happen； to persuade someone to do something 導致；誘使，勸說導致；誘使，勸說 induce sth. = cause sth. induce sb. to do sth. inducement n. financial/cash inducements 經濟經濟 / 金錢誘惑金錢誘惑引誘；誘因引誘；誘因地震活動激增可能是油氣開采井廢水高壓回注地下的結果地震活動激

3、增可能是油氣開采井廢水高壓回注地下的結果3. The place has developed from a fishing port into a thriving tourist center. thrive v. thrived, thrived / throve, thriven to grow, develop or be successful 茁壯成長；興旺，繁榮茁壯成長；興旺，繁榮 thriving a. = prosperous4. It seemed incredible that she had been there a week already. incredible a.

4、 impossible, or very difficult, to believe；extremely good 難以置信的；極好的難以置信的；極好的 incredibly ad.5. She has used her wits to progress to the position she holds today. wits n. plural intelligence and the ability to think quickly 機智機智, ,頭腦頭腦 wit = humor n. 6. . She still clings to the belief that her son is

5、 still alive. cling to to refuse to stop believing or hoping for something 堅持（信念或希望堅持（信念或希望） ，保持保持 cling to the belief / hope that7. The hills were shrouded in mist in the morning before sunrise. shroud v./n. to hide something by covering or surrounding it 籠罩；遮蔽；覆蓋籠罩；遮蔽；覆蓋 8. My father will never gi

6、ve his consent to our marriage. consent n./v. permission or agreement 許可，允許；同意許可，允許；同意 consent v. consent to do sth.Section A : Text IThe Simple Wisdom in Having the Right Attitude It used to annoy me to no end(=very much) when people would tell me to have a better attitude, offering this advice as

7、though it were as simple as flipping a switch. They made it sound like it was something entirely in my control. Go ahead and just change your attitude, sweet heart, and the world will smile at you and the sun will shine brightly and you will feel so much better. Attitude seemed like the magic bullet

8、 (靈丹妙藥), according to these happiness experts, and they would go so far as to(甚至甚至) say how it is the determining factor between ones happiness and misery in life. Ironically, every time I heard this advice, I ended up feeling depressed and angry, depressed because I could not understand how to chan

9、ge my own perspective, angry because I could not stand the idea of something so small being so powerful and yet not being able to have access to it, and more so, angry that life seemed easy for others when I struggled with my minuscule problems on giant scales. How can looking at a situation differe

10、ntly change the actual situation? To me, facts are facts, and the good and bad are clearly marked for every event. A car accident is unfortunate and nothing to smile about. An unexpected sickness is nothing positive or educational. Being cheated in a service transaction is intolerable and does not s

11、erve any good purpose. An unfair grading by a professor is, well, just brutal and cruel and these, among many others, are plenty of reasons to plunge oneself into(使陷入) self-induced pity, anxiety, unhappiness and stress. Or are they really? What it really means to have the right attitude? Attitude is

12、 not the be-all and end-all（=the most important thing）. It is not the magic bullet or a secret to true happiness or even a solution to your problems. Smiling and laughing in the face of misfortune do not solve problems but neither do tears. The right attitude simply feels good. In fact, it feels rea

13、lly good and how you feel matters a great deal in what you do. A few months ago, I was struggling with the direction of my business and the lack of momentum（=energy）. Every day that I thought about this problem, I felt more helpless and powerless to change it. I decided to inspire myself by listenin

14、g to success stories of other entrepreneurs but instead, I felt overwhelmed and small in the face of all the massively successful business minds, and fell more into a funk. I knew that I had the resources and the knowledge and the experience to build a smart platform for a thriving business, but the

15、 pressure of not succeeding right now or even sometime in the past wiped out all of my energy. I had none left to devote to the present moment. I had no hope in how I could put all this information to use. That episode in late summer marks one of the worst and best examples of how a bad attitude can

16、 turn an average situation into a terribly hopeless one, not to mention the stress it puts on your well-being. One day, I just decided to change the way I was doing everything, from what I listened and read and consumed to how I went about doing the smallest tasks such as responding to emails and ha

17、ndling small tasks in my business. I remember walking in circles in my office, and with that decision alone, feeling the air filling up my lungs with space and openness. The surge of hope into my veins felt refreshing. The plethora of ideas and creativity was incredible. The change in my perspective

18、 had suddenly brought about change everywhere else. I made a few promises to myself, made a few priorities and put a few deadlines in place and absolutely forbid myself from comparing my business to any other business in the world. I started to feel genuine happiness for others who had risen to resp

19、ectable success in their business and started to realize the possibilities for myself again. I had managed to restore my faith, my sanity and my wits with my changing attitude and my frame of mind. Since I made the switch to this attitude, there has been no shortage of good results and encouraging s

20、eries of events from every business decision and move that Ive been making. The right attitude gives you hope when your mind wants to cling to hopelessness and feel sorry for itself like a sad victim. It fills you up with positive energy that helps you think and see your situation more clearly. It e

21、nables you to look at every situation like a puzzle of a problem and it encourages you to look for solutions rather than to focus on all the reasons why the problem happened to you. The right attitude helps you take long deep breaths in a stressful situation and that sends oxygen to your brain rathe

22、r than spasm to your muscles. It helps you consider possibilities that you can hardly see when your head is shrouded in clouds of misery. The right attitude can be powerful beyond measure but only with your consent because you alone determine the role this attitude can play in your life.How Having t

23、he Right Attitude Opens Doors for You The right attitude does not make light of a serious situation or a big problem in your life. It does not make it seem as though bad things happened for a good reason. The right attitude is not about justifying the poor hand of cards that you may have been dealt

24、(=the wrong decision we have made ). It is rather about choosing every step that follows that hand by positioning you in such a way that you can indeed make the best decisions with the information that you have. The right attitude empowers, enables, fills the room with hope and fills your lungs with

25、 air. It clears your mind and feeds your body with everything you need to turn any situation around. And that is the power of the right attitude. If you dont get everything you want, think of the things you dont get that you dont want. Oscar WildeReading Comprehension1. According to some happiness e

26、xperts, if you change your attitude _. A.the world will remain the same B. the world will change C. the world will be out of your control(B. fact: as though it were as simple as flipping a switch. They made it sound like it was something entirely in my control. Go ahead and just change your attitude

27、, sweet heart, and the world will smile at you and the sun will shine brightly and you will feel so much better. Line 26)Reading Comprehension2. Every time the author heard the advice of having a good attitude, he was annoyed because _. A. he had to deal with big problems B. he was not able to get a

28、 good attitude C. life seemed easy for everyone including himself(B. fact: every time I heard this advice, I ended up feeling depressed and angry, depressed because I could not understand how to change my own perspective, angry because I could not stand the idea of something so small being so powerf

29、ul and yet not being able to have access to it, and more so, angry that life seemed easy for others when I struggled with my minuscule problems Line 1015)Reading Comprehension3. The author will disagree with the following except for _. A.attitude is the most important thing B. attitude is the magic

30、bullet C. smiling and laughing in the face of misfortune do not solve problems(C. fact: Attitude is not the be-all and end-all（=the most important thing）. It is not the magic bullet or a secret to true happiness or even a solution to your problems. Smiling and laughing in the face of misfortune do n

31、ot solve problems but neither do tears. Line 2528)Reading Comprehension4. What happened to the author in late summer? A.His bad attitude turned a good situation into a hopeless one. B. He decided to change the way he was doing everything. C. He spent the whole day responding to emails and handling s

32、mall tasks in his business.(B. fact: That episode in late summer marks one of the worst and best examples of how a bad attitude can turn an average situation into a terribly hopeless oneOne day, I just decided to change the way I was doing everything, Line 4144)Reading Comprehension5. After the auth

33、or made a switch to the right attitude, _. A.he still allowed himself to compare his business with other businesses in the world B. his business decisions failed to produce encouraging results C. he started to feel genuine happiness for others who had risen to respectable success in their business (

34、C. fact: I started to feel genuine happiness for others who had risen to respectable success in their business Since I made the switch to this attitude, there has been no shortage of good results and encouraging series of events Line 5455)Reading Comprehension6. The right attitude gives one the foll

35、owing except for _. A. hope B. the justification for the wrong decision we have made C. positive energy (B. fact: The right attitude gives you hope when . It fills you up with positive energy that . Line 6264)Reading Comprehension7. When a bad thing happened to you, _. A.you should look for a good r

36、eason B. you should choose the right steps to deal with itC. you should accept the situation without taking any action(B. fact: The right attitude is not about justifying the poor hand of cards that you may have been dealt (=the wrong decision we have made ). It is rather about choosing every step t

37、hat follows that hand by positioning you Line 7678)Reading Comprehension8. Oscar Wildes words tell us that _. A. not everything in the world is what you want B. thinking of things you dont want helps you get everything you want C. if you want to get everything you cannot be successful(A. fact: If yo

38、u dont get everything you want, think of the things you dont get that you dont want. Line 8687)Word Match (p. 107) minuscule an enclosed area used for sports, public entertainments, etc funk extremely small preach taking or needing great effort or strength strenuous great feararena to advise or urge

39、 others to accept (sth. one believes in)adversity to damage, break, or cause to lose shapebatter a particular eventepisode bad fortune, troubleplethora to move or be thrown suddenly forwards / downwardsplunge an amount much greater than is neededVocabulary Building sanity a sudden uncontrolled tight

40、ening of musclesspasm to disorder, spoil etcempower the quality of being sanemess up completely destructivedevastating to give someone the power to do something common denominator to lose strength or effectiveness; weaken odds a quality or belief shared by all the members of a group stack the probab

41、ilities that something will or will not happen motivate to arrange dishonestly so as to give oneself an unfair advantage falter to provide with a strong reason for doing sth. Semantic Variations (p.108)v1. C v2B v3B v4A v5C v6B Stems (p.109)v1prescribe:： to advise the use of a medicinev2description：

42、 an account of a person in wordsv3terrain： a stretch of land, with regard to its natural featuresv4subscribe： to pay regularly in order to receive a magazine，newspaper，etcv5territorial： of a countrys territoryv6extraterrestrial： of or from outside the earth or its atmosphereterr = land , 表示表示“土地土地”t

43、errace n. 梯田；露天平臺，陽臺 terr土地，-ace名詞后綴 terrain n. 地形；地帶；領域 terr土地，-ain名詞后綴 territory n. 領土；地域；領域，范圍 terr土地，-it-，-ory名詞后綴 territorial a. 領土的terrestrial a. 地球的；陸地上的terr土地地球，-ial形容詞后綴 extraterrestrial n.外星人，天外來客（縮寫：E.T.） a.地球外的 extra-外， 同上 scrib/scrip = write , 表示表示“價值；力量價值；力量”describe v. 描寫，敘述（de著重+scri

44、be-著重寫-描寫） descriptive a. 描述的；描寫的 description n. 描述；描寫；種類subscribe v. 簽署；捐款；同意；訂閱 （sub在下面+scribe在下面寫上名字簽訂單） subscription n. 捐款；訂閱；簽名subscriber n. 捐款者；訂閱者prescribe v. 規定，命令；開處方 （pre 預先+scribe-預先寫好藥量） prescriptive a. 規定的，規范的prescription n. 處方；命令 Antonyms (p.109)v1. appear v2ready v3hide v4skillful v5c

45、arelessCloze (p. 110)intelligentactivities workout attitude off reducing seem asideEach of us has his own attitudes towards life. Some are optimists while others are pessimists. It is, perhaps, better to be a realist, i.e. seeing the world as it really is. This is important because only by being rea

46、listic can we formulate goals and strategies that are practical and attainable. In order to define our achievable goals, we need to know our own strengths (or assets) and weaknesses (or liabilities). A little bit of optimism is good so that we are not easily discouraged. It gives us hope. Pessimists

47、 are usually discouraged even before they begin, or if they have begun, they gave up too easily without a fight. On the other hand, being too optimistic can get us into unnecessary troubles. People who are too optimistic tend to rush hastily into things without putting some thoughts into their plans

48、. Sometimes, they do not recognise troubles until it is too late. Thus, it is best to be realistic towards life. If we cannot be so, then better optimistic than pessimistic. This should be our attitude towards life. Only then can we make the most out of our lives. Two average, financially successful

49、, young-middle-age couples thought that happiness was eluding(=not achieve) them. One lived in a large city and the other in a small rural area. Each decided that the others way of life was much better and so they changed places for a year. The city couple soon became bored with the less hectic pace

50、 and the more direct confrontation with nature. The country couple was soon dismayed by the crowded, impersonal hurry-up city tempo. At the end of the year both couples came to realize a fundamental truth of life that happiness lies within ourselves. If all the people in the world today were asked t

51、heir goal in life, the vast majority would probably reply that they sought happiness. Yet we know that happiness is not the passing fancy, passive contentment or far-off paradise. We learn that life gives only periods of happiness. We also learn that our ideas of happiness change as we mature and de

52、fine our goals more clearly. We also find out that our station in life, our surroundings, or our bank account does not determine the nature and extent of our happiness. “Happy families are all alike; unhappy families are unhappy each in their unique way.” This sentence, which begins a famous novel b

53、y Tolstoi, is meant to show that we get what we give in daily living. Happiness is an attitude toward life. It is a garden that only we can cultivate. Attitude is the consistent manner in which we react to a person or an object. It is learned and acquired from young. A good attitude produces good re

54、sults. A poor attitude produces poor results. Parents can help their child acquire a positive attitude towards life. Here is an illustration. A director of an expanding and growing shoe company wanted to venture into an isolated island population to market his products. He sent salesman A to tap the

55、 potential of the market there. After three days, salesman A called the director and said, “I will be taking the next flight back. The people here do not wear shoes, therefore we do not have a market.” A few months later, salesman B from the same company went for a holiday in this island. Almost imm

56、ediately he called hisdirector and said, “Sir, please send me all types and sizes of shoes. I am so excited. People here do not wear shoes. When I showed them how it could protect their feet, they liked the idea so much that they want shoes of their own. There are just too many orders here.” The cir

57、cumstances were both the same, yet salesman B with a better attitude found a market when A could not. Recently, the number of suicide cases increase rapidly in Hong Kong. As teenagers are the future of our society, it is important for them to develop an optimistic view towards life. Here three activ

58、ities are suggested for students to promote a positive attitude towards life and to face difficulties through the activities. Talks and seminars can be organized for students and their parents. Students should share their ups and downs with their parents whereas their parents should spend more time

59、with their children and listen to them. Moreover, organizing talks can suggest various ways to help their children if they realize that their children are under heavy stress. Apart from organizing talks and seminars, discussions about suicide cases in Hong Kong between teachers and students can be h

60、eld. By discussing, teachers should teach their students that they should not escape problems but be brave to face them. Students should also be encouraged to ask the teachers or social workers for help if they have emotional problems. In addition to discussions about suicide cases in Hong Kong, an