When something goes wrong，it can be very satisfying to say，“Well，itˈs so-and-soˈs fault.” or “I know Iˈm late，but itˈs not my fault；the car broke dwon.”It is probably not your fault，but once you form the habit of blaming somebody or something else for a bad situation，you are a loser.You have no power and could do nothing that helps change the situation.However，you can have great power over what happens to you if you stop focusing on whom to blame and start focusing on how to remedy the situation.This is the winnerˈs key to success.

Winners are great at overcoming problems.For example，if you were late because your car broke down，maybe you need to have your car examined more regularly.Or，you might start to carry along with you the useful phone numbers，so you could call for help when in need.For another example，if your colleague causes you problems on the job for lack of responsibility or ability，find ways of dealing with his irresponsibility or inability rather than simply blame the person.Ask to work with a different person，or donˈt rely on this person.       You should accept that the person is not reliable and find creative ways to work successfully regardless of how your colleague fails to do his job well.

This is what being a winner is all about—creatively using your skills and talents so that you are successful no matter what happens.Winners donˈt have fewer problems in their lives；they have just as many difficult situations to face as anybody else.They are just better at seeing those problems as challenges and opportunities to develop their own talents.So，stop focusing on“whose fault it is”．Once you are confident about your power over bad situations，problems are just stepping stones for success.

PUBLIC SPIRIT

       Each nation has its own peculiar（特有）character which distinguishes if from others. But the peoples of the world have more points in which they are all like each other than points in which they are different. One type of person that is common in every country is the one who always tries to do as little as he can and to get as much in return as he can. His opposite, the man who is in the habit of doing more than what is strictly necessary and who is ready to accept what is offered in return, is rare everywhere.

       Both these types are usually unconscious of their character. The man who avoids effort is always talking about his “rights”: he appears to think that society owes him a pleasant, easy life. The man who is always doing more than his share talks of “duties”: he feels that the individual is in debt to society, and not society to the individual. As a result of their views, neither of these men thinks that he behaves at all strangely.

       The men who tries to do as little as he can is always full of excuses: if he was neglected to do something, it was because he had a headache, or the weather was too hot or too cold or because he was prevented by bad luck. At first, other people, such as his friends and his employer, generously accept his stories; but soon they realize what kind of person he is. In the long run he deceives only himself. When his friends become cool towards him and he fails to make progress in his job, he is surprised and hurt. He blames everyone and everything except himself. He feels that society is failing in its duties towards him, and that he is being unjustly treated. He soon becomes one of the discontented（另人不满）members of the society he lives in.

       His public spirited opposite is never too busy to take on an extra piece of work; that is the strongest thing about the whole business. If you want something done in a hurry, don’t go to the man who has clearly not much to do. He will probably have a dozen excellent excuses for not being able to help you, much as he claims he would like to. Go to the busiest man you know, particularly if you are sure that he has not a spare minute in the week. If your work is really important, he will make time for it.

Reading is thought to be a kind of conservation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.

       For most of the time this “conservation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become aware of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatching is occurring between expectation and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced , our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.

Different people converse with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers. There is another conservation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is not to do with what is read but how it is read. We call this a “process” conservation as opposed to a “content” conservation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader, our ability to hold a content conservation with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not so our ability to hold a process conservation. It is precisely this kind of conservation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.

某校高三年级就全球失去了语言的多样化为话题，展开了讨论，得出了一些原因.

(1) 全球化(globalization)的影响. 来自世界不同部分的人需要用同一语言交流。

(2) 说少数民族语言的人在减少，没有流传下来。政府对少数民族语言保护不够。

请根据以上提示写一篇120字左右的文章 (开头部分已经为你写好)发挥自己的想象，对此现象我们应当采取什么措施。

The world is in danger because of the losing of a variety of languages. When a language dies, rich resources of material for documenting a people’s history are lost. Besides, the world becomes less diverse.

高中学生学习任务繁重，体育课已成为难得的放松时间,可目前你们体育课存在一些问题。请你用英语写一篇短文，给校报投稿，内容应包括：1.体育课的意义：强身健体；学会团队合作；增强竞争力 2.目前体育课的现状：内容单一；有时被其它功课替代 3.提出一些合理的建议：……（至少2点）注意：词数100左右。