专题08 阅读表达10篇（第一期）-2023高考英语北京市名校模拟真题速递

2023高考英语北京市名校模拟真题速递 第一期 专题08 阅读表达10篇 （2023秋·北京西城·高三统考一模）阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。 The other day I was having coffee and catching up with Brian, a friend I hadn’t seen in over a year, when he asked me this question: “Do you regret leaving Google?” “Of course, I don’t regret it,” I answered. But when I reflected more deeply on his question, I arrived at this realization: We cannot regret something that has taught us valuable lessons in life. Truth is, not every decision we make will be the right choice for us. I learned later that quitting my one and only source of income to start an e-commerce business from nothing was a recipe for financial disaster. No, that decision was not the right one at the time. Perhaps I should’ve followed the advice I give today: Build your business while working a full-time job so that you can work from a place of stability. But then again, I wouldn’t have learned such a valuable lesson had I not acted upon what was truly important to me at the time—the freedom of pursuing my own dream, on my own terms. We regret what’s in the past and can’t be changed. We compare the choices we made yesterday to an ideal path that we think we should have taken—we simply imagine it to be a better path. What is worse is when stuck in regret, we lose our control over what matters most: What we do with our time, today. There’s a much better way to look at regret—a more mindful way—and it can be seen at a place where action, reflection, and gratitude meet. So whenever you find yourself caught in regret, stop and ask yourself these two questions: “What have I learned from this? And how have I grown because of it?” Perhaps you might just shift your viewpoint from that of being upset and regretful to being appreciative and grateful. 1．What did Brian’s question make the writer realize? ___________________________________________________________ 2．List the two words the author uses to describe the viewpoint people should take when facing regret.   __