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天水市甘谷二中2017届高三第一次模拟检测英语试卷
第II卷(非选择题)
一、阅读理解(共5小题)
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Are you an optimist? Do you look at your glass and see it as half full? Do you believe that every cloud has a silver lining and that things generally turn out for the best? Do you believe that if something is meant to be, it will be? If you reply “yes” to all of these questions, then you are an optimist.You probably are enthusiastic, cheerful and outgoing.You may be successful at work and in love.
But you may be misguided because things don’t turn out for the best.You may believe that when one door closes another one opens (for example, you may fail to obtain a new job; another chance will come around soon).Wrong.When one door closes, another door slams (砰然关上) in your face.That’s bitter reality.
Now a book has been published which confirms what pessimists (悲观者) have suspected all along.It’s called The Positive Power of Defensive Pessimism.Its author argues that defensive pessimism can lead to