专题03 阅读理解15篇-2023中考英语逆袭冲刺名校模拟真题特快专递（北京专用）

令学利科购 学科网原创，让学司更客易！ JP.ZXXK.COM 学科网精品频道全力推荐 2023北京市中考英语逆袭冲刺名校模拟真题特快专递 第四期 专题03阅读理解15篇 (2022春北京西城九年级北京四中校考二模)Why the Best Things in Life are All Backwards There's a part of Navy SEAL training called“drown-proofing”(抗溺水训练)where they bind your hands behind your back,tie your feet together,and dump you into a 9-foot-deep pool.Your job is to survive for five minutes Most people who try drown-proofing fail.Many of them panic and scream.But some make it.And they do so because they understand a counterintuitive(违反直觉的)lesson:the more you struggle to keep your head above water,the more likely you are to sink ( With your arms and legs bound,it's impossible to keep yourself at the surface for the full five minutes.Even worse,your limited efforts to keep your body afloat will only cause you to sink faster.The trick to drown-proofing is to actually let yourself sink to the bottom of the pool.From there,you lightly push yourself off the pool floor and carry you back to the surface.Once there,you can have a quick breath of air and start the whole process over again Strangely,surviving drown-proofing requires no superhuman strength.It doesn't even require that you know how to swim.However,it requires the ability to not swim.This skill-the ability to let go of control when one wants it most-is one of the most important skills anyone can develop.And not just for SEAL training.For life. Most people suppose the relationship between effort and reward(▣报、奖励)is one-.to-one.We think that working twice as long will produce twice the results. This is almost never true.Most of the world does not exist on a linear curve.Linear relationships only work for mindless or repetitive tasks-driving a car.filling out paperwork,cleaning the bathroom.etc.In all of these cases,doing something for two hours will double the output of doing it for one hour.But that's simply because they require no thought or creativity Linear Curve Most activities in life do not operate along the linear effort/reward curve b