中国矿业大学(北京)硕士期末语考试复习资料.doc

Unit 1 In most modern bookshops there is a large section devoted to business and how to succeed in it. Others (books) are written by successful entrepreneurs who want to tell the public how they build their businesses. 3. Now there is also an increasing number of books telling us the most valuable resources in the world. 4. Since those days we have learned far more about how the brain actually works. One of the most surprising facts is that it hardly works at all. 5. How can we explore the other rooms, make ourselves at home and take full possession of our thinking processes? 6. on average,people only use 1% of their brain power in everyday life. 7. Psychologists have come up with a number of answers that can be applied to our daily work and life. 8. “Brainstorming” is a way of generating ideas by discussion. 9. Both sides of our brain are meant to be used together, just as we use both hands to tie our shoelaces. 10. Industrial designer Frank Nuovo recently described how he deliberately appealed to the creative instinct. Unit 2 This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world.Not by theoretical English professors,but by practical,hard-headed scholars who have been searching for the secrets of success. 2. That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words. 3. And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do. 4. It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of position. 5. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Quite the reverse is true. 6. The extent of your vocabulary indicates the degree of your intelligence. 7. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out. 8. And the more words you have at