今天的英文閱讀測驗一開頭就出現了change，所以文章主題一定和改變有關，同學們知道文章的主題了，是不是覺得文章變得很簡單呢？正在努裡準備考試的你們，也正在試著改變自己的人生，每一個關鍵都有可能改變你，一定要好好加油喔！
Change is welcome. How often have you said, “When my life
gets back to normal…” not realizing that life can never get back to
any place or time?
Change is the most changeless thing in the universe. We need to
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accept all change—welcome or unwelcome—with the understanding
that nothing comes to stay, but only to pass. And because two things
never occupy the same space at the same time, one change makes
way for the next, giving us the opportunity to grow.
Felicia was very sad when her husband was moved to a city a
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thousand miles from her family and friends. Certainly she would be
miserable, and she resisted bitterly. She secretly wished her husband
would go without her.
Then a friend convinced her that although the sun was setting on
one life, it would rise on another. So she decided to accept the
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change as gracefully as possible. To make friends, she joined a
painting class. There she discovered a talent she never dreamed she
had. Before long, her teacher arranged an exhibition. Felicia’s work
was so well received that she began getting commission for her
landscapes. Soon she was a sought-after water-colorist.
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“I was so childish,” she wrote to her mother. “This change has
given me a chance to develop a talent I never would have
discovered.”
If we learn to welcome change, if we look for the blessings in it,
we will be able to accept the problems, and worries of the present,
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knowing that “this too shall pass.”
Remember, one door never closes without another opening.
( ) 1. According to this passage, if a person says, “When my life gets back to normal…”, he or she probably _____.
(A) has lost hope for the future
(B) will do something different in the future
(C) realizes some changes in life may bring blessings
(D) does not like the changes that have taken place in his/her life
( ) 2. What does the author mean by saying “Change is the most changeless thing in the universe”?
(A) Changes come and stay forever.
(B) Things do not change at all.
(C) Things are always changing.
(D) Things always get back to their original place.
( ) 3. The reason why Felicia went to the painting class is that _____.
(A) she felt alone at home
(B) all her friends there were painters
(C) she always dreamed to be a famous painter
(D) she suffered a lot from her husband’s abuse at home
( ) 4. From the sentence “I was so childish,” we can infer that _____.
(A) Felicia was very happy like a child
(B) Felicia missed her husband very much
(C) Felicia had not forgotten the old life style with her husband
(D) Felicia had never dreamed to have such a talent for painting
英銘老師：閱讀測驗是很多考生畏懼的英文題型之一，其實閱題測驗的的解題並不難，因為外國人寫文章都愛用破題法，只要看第一段即可知道文章大概在講什麼內容。例如在此篇文章的第一段中，有提到“change” (改變)，所以文章一定跟“改變”有關。
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