2016-2017学年高中英语 Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Section Ⅰ Warming up Reading-Prereading课时作业 新人教选修9.doc

Unit 2　Sailing the oceans Section Ⅰ　Warming up Reading—Pre－reading Ⅰ.阅读理解 A 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 self－improvement 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 so－called “helpful professions” are not thrilled about the life－coaching 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. 语篇解读　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．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