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Ⅰ.阅读理解

(2015·河北省五个一名校联盟质检)You've probably heard about sports coaches，fitness coaches，voice and music teachers，career counselors，psychiatrists (精神科医师) and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.

But there's a rapidly growing kind of professionals who do a little bit of everything.She or he is called a “life_coach”.People who are at the crossroads in their life，and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost，are turning to them for help.

The idea that one person's success story can change other people's life for the better goes back at least to the 1930s.Dale Carnegie's famous self­improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.

But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers.They use their own experiences in business，sports，military service，or psychotherapy (心理疗法) to help others make critical life decisions.They often give their approaches a slogan，such as “energy coaching”“fearless living” or “working yourself happy”.

Dave Lakhani in Boise，Idaho，for instance，works with salespeople to develop what he calls a “road map”.He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for one's career and life outside work.

Lakhani's Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful—including battered women and struggling single mothers.

But others in the so­called “helpful professions” are not thrilled about the life­coaching movement.They say that anyone，trained or untrained，can call himself or herself a life coach，and these slick (华而不实的) promoters who mess with people's life can do more harm than good.

1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.Working Yourself Happy

B.Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions

C.How to Cope with Daily Life with Life Coaches

D.The Life­coaching Movement

2.The underlined phrase “life coach” in Paragraph 2 means “________”.

A.the career counselor who teaches skills

B.the psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily life

C.the fitness coach who teaches us lessons

D.the specialist who helps us make important life decisions

3.The last paragraph is mainly about ________.

A.the introductions of life coaches

B.the disagreements about life coaches

C.the effects of life coaches

D.the experiences of life coaches

4.What is the author's attitude towards life coaches?

A.Cautious.　　　　 B.Approving.

C.Casual. D.Disapproving.

答案：

解题导语：当你处于人生的重要时刻时，当你想让公司里某些职员的事业得以提升时，你可以求助于人生教练，他们能帮助你做出人生中的重大决定。

1.B　解析：标题判断题。本文主要介绍了人生教练正成为受人们欢迎的专业人才，他们能帮助那些面临人生重大抉择的人们做出决定。B项最具有概括性。

2.D　解析：词义猜测题。根据第二段的最后一句“People who are at the crossroads in their life, and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost, are turning to them for help.”及第三段的内容可知，“life coach”是指帮助我们做出人生重大决定的专家。

3.B　解析：段落大意题。根据最后一段中的“They say...can do more harm than good.”可知，一些人对人生教练持否定的态度，认为人生教练可能给人们的生活带来的伤害大于益处，因此选择B项。

4.A　解析：观点态度题。作者在文章中客观地对人生教练进行了介绍，既介绍了他们的职业优势，也提及了一些人对他们的否定态度，因此作者对人生教练的态度是严谨的。cautious“严谨的，谨慎的”;approving“赞成的”;casual“随意的，漠不关心的”;disapproving“不赞成的”。