Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other is secret and real. You don’t show your secret personality when you are awake because you can control your behavior, but when you are asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their positions. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you are a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to upset people, so you never express your real feelings. You are quite shy and you aren’t very confident.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and always easily get upset. You are very stubborn, but you aren’t very ambitious. You usually live for today not tomorrow. This means you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up you are
A. The one that you begin to sleep in.
B. The one that you are in deep sleep.
C. The one that you are in dreams.
D. The one that you’re awake at once.
Passage Two
One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation up on success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards, but recognition of some sort-preferably measurable. If a boy turn out to be a preacher(传真者) instead of a businessman, that’s all right. But the bigger his church is, the more successful he is judged to be.
A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan(清教徒) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of God’s love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settleD. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement. Here was the de- termination of an immigrant to gain in the new world what bad been denied to him in the old, and on the part of his children an urge to throw off the
A. success is highly valued in American society
B. success surely brings material rewards
C. success equals measurable recognition
D. people agree on what success means
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