Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

There are so many things we do in our daily lives that have become a “habit”, 【1】How you answer the phone is a habit. The way you sit in the car when you drive is a habit. Have you ever tried to change the way you do something, after you’ve done it in a certain way for so long? It’s easy to do as long as you think about it. The minute your mind drifts to something else, you go right back to the old way of doing things. 【2】It’s a way of doing things that has become routine or commonplace. To change an existing habit or form a new one can be a tedious(单调乏味的) task.

Let’s pick something fairly easy to start with, like spending 15 minutes in the morning readingtheBible. If you want to turn something into a habit that you do every day, you have to WANT to do it. 【3】Make a firm decision to do this on a daily basis.

Imprint(铭刻) it in your mind. Write several notes to yourself and put them in places where you will see them. By the alarm clock, on the bathroom mirror, on the refrigerator door, in your briefcase, and under your car keys are good places to start.

After the newness wears off, then you will have to remind yourself, “Hey, I forgot to. . . ”. Keep using the notes if you have to. 【4】Some people say it will take over a month to solidify(变得稳固) it and make it something you will do without having to think about it. I tend to agree with the last statement. Two to three weeks will help you to remember, but thirty days or more will make it a part of your everyday routine. 【5】

A. What is a “habit” anyway?

B. Is doing things in an old way good?

C. Brushing your teeth is a habit.

D. Forming a bad habit is easy.

E. It takes 16 to 21 times of repeating a task to make it a habit.

F. If you don’t, you will find a way to do everything but that.

G. That’s something you won’t necessarily have to think about before you do it — habit.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】F

【4】E

【5】G

【解析】我们生活中的许多行为会慢慢变成习惯，文章告诉了我们习惯的养成及改变习惯的方法。

【1】C

考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。首句讲我们生活中的许多行为会慢慢变成习惯，下文进行列举，C项：刷牙就是一种习惯。与下面的例子并列，故选C.

【2】A

考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据空后的"It’s a way of doing things that has become routine or commonplace"可知这是对habit的解释，故选A.

【3】F

考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。此处与上文的"If you want to turn something into a habit that you do every day, you have to WANT to do it."形成并列的两个方面，故选F

【4】E

考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据下文的"it will take over a month to solidify(变得稳固) it and make it something you will do without having to think about it. "可知E项与之呼应，故选E.

【5】G

考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据上文的"make it a part of your everyday routine"可知下文是总结句，故选G.