UNIT 2 SUCCESS 训练1 Topic Talk 分值：54分 Ⅰ.单词拼写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分) 1．The educationalist’s great success cannot depart from his _____(坚持不懈的) effort. 2．My niece is d to give up socialising online and to study hard. 3．Whatever difficulty the _____(宇航员) meets，he doesn’t get depressed. 4．The teacher always highlights the importance of an o attitude. 5．It is incredible that the 4-year-old boy can be so _____(有原则的) as to reject junk food. 6．My mother is c to her duty and never is she absent from work without reasons. 7．Marty，an _____(有抱负的) young man，decided to be a scientist in the future. 8．We all know he didn’t perform well because of the i in his ankle，but he felt ashamed of losing the gold medal. 9．Only through c with other teammates can we win the match. 10．These old _____(员工) greeted me in a rude manner，which hurt me emotionally. Ⅱ.单句语法填空(共6小题；每小题1.5分，满分9分) 1．We are still optimistic _____ the future，whatever the result of the match. 2．We are all struck by the astronaut ’s _____(commit) and ambition. 3．Although my teacher explains it constantly，I still can’t make sense _____ such problems. 4．His career as a professional football player brings him many _____(injure)． 5．I would be _____(appreciate) if you could accept my invitation. 6．Many celebrities devoted themselves to helping people in the disaster area with _____(enthusiastic)． Ⅲ.主题语篇阅读(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20分) A Just being smart doesn’t mean someone will be successful.And just because someone is less smart doesn’t mean that person will fail.That’s one take-home message from the work of people like Angela Duckworth. She works at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.Like many other researchers，Duckworth wondered what makes one person more successful than another.When digging deeper，Duckworth found that the people who performed best shared a quality independent of smarts.They had what she now calls grit(毅力)．Duckworth developed a set of questions to test it. In one study of people aged 25 and older，she found that as people age，they become more likely to stick with a project.She also found that grit increases with education.People who had finished college scored higher in the grit test than people who quit before graduation did.People who went to graduate school after college scored even higher. She then did another study with college students.Duckworth wanted to see how smarts and grit influenced performance in school.So she compared scores on college-entrance exams，which test IQ，to school grades and someone’s score in the grit test.Students with higher grades seem to have more grit.That’s not surprising.Getting good grades takes both smarts and hard work. But some people counter that this grit means success.Among those people is Marcus Credé，a teacher at Iowa State University in Ames.He recently showed the results of 88 studies on grit.Together，nearly 67,000 people took ... ...
