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what comes to mind when you hear the word--diversity? issues of race or gender mayspring to rights? or minority issues?

i encourage people to look at a much wider definition of the word.1 would tend to saydiversity is “differentness” in any form.a good example of this kind of diversity has beenexperienced by every person who ever left behind the comforts of home and moved intouncharted of diversity are informed not only by your cultural background andcontext，but also by your religion，age，field of work，family situation， personality，andcountless other factors that make us ity affects everyone.

it’s for this reason that diversity has become such a buzz buzz happens becauseit’s all about how you handle ’s very much like the job a composer has when creating a greatmusical the composer understands what each unique note and dynamic mark iscapable of in combination with the other parts，the result achieved is ,however，none of the parts is communicating with the others，we’re left with a cacophony(刺耳的声音).

on a personal ’s this understanding and acceptance of “the other” which rests at thecore of r we’re talking about navigating through a multicultural urbanenvironment or uprooting and moving to a new foreign social context，it is necessary to set asiderigid assumptions about “the other” and put oneself in the other’s shoes. so how do we make thisleap? it’s often as simple as asking questions and being careful not to assume that what you see isnecessarily what the other side sees.

often in my workshops i give a magic lesson to the audience to illustrate this principle. i firstpresent the magic and accomplish the "impossible". the participants receive the same props butsimply can’t manage. we look more carefully at the situation and realize that the assumptionsthey made about it actually blocked them from achieving this feat; a feat they suddenly areempowered to do which, moments ago, was impossible.

the goal in being sensitive to diversity is to cultivate a culture of respect for people’sdifferences and understand that such an environment is beneficial to everyone involved.

diversity awareness is an evolution. we can’t get there by snapping our fingers, and it isn’t amatter of training people to have textbook politically correct attitudes. instead it’s a case oflooking at the big picture of how we see the world, understanding why we see it that way, andthen making sure we do our part to genuinely value difference and benefit from it.

1. according to the author, diversity is

a. confusing.

b. extraordinary.

c. quite common.

d. universal.

2. "it" in paragraph three refers to

a. diversity.

b. the buzz.

c. how to handle diversity.

d. the formation of diversity.

3. the author believes that

a. to handle diversity one should put himself in others’ shoes.

b. when you are in a foreign environment, do as the romans do.

c. diversity can hardly be defined.

d. diversity derives from cultural difference.

4. the example of a magic lesson is to show

a. everyone can do magic.

b. magic is nothing but a feat.

c. what blocks people from handling diversity.

d. it is possible to achieve anything.

5. how to raise diversity awareness according to the author?

a. by living in an unfamiliar environment.

b. by having politically correct attitudes.

c. by being sensitive to everything one experiences.

d. by understanding people’s differences.

本文围绕“差异性”这一名词展开论述。第1段以一个问句开头由“差异性”一词你会想到什么，引发读者的思考;第2段对“差异性”进行定义，指出了差异的广泛性与普遍性;第3段以作曲家的创作形象说明差异是如何产生的：第4-5段阐明解决“差异性”的核心并以魔术表演为例对这一核心进行说明;最后两段讲到了感受差异

1.[d]细节判断题。第2段有对该词的定义，从any form，every person，not only…but als0等这些词可推断“差异性”具有普遍性，故选d。c为强干扰项，common偏指普通的，常见的，注意这里更强调的是“差异性”的普遍性。

2.[c]代词指代题。考查it所指代的对象。查找到it所在的句子，前句指出“差异性之所以时髦是因为它取决于你如何对待它”，然后就指出“这就好 像作曲家在创作一首伟大的乐曲一样”，故it在此指代的就是如何对待差异性的问题，故选c。d有一定的干扰性，但差异性的形成并没有在it前面提到，故排除。

3.[a]观点态度题。由第4段倒数第3句可知a正确，该段还提到搬迁到一个陌生的社会环境必须抛弃对他人的固执想法，b与原文表述不符;第2段首句就有对”差异性“的定义。故c错误;第2段提到“差异性问题不仅体现于你的文化背景，还体现于……”，d表述过于片面，故排除。

4.[c]例证细节题。根据magic lesson定位到第5段。该例子表明观众从“不会”到“会”魔术这门技艺，说明是他们原先的臆想阻碍了他们对这种技艺的掌握，进而说明是什么阻碍了人们正确对待文化差异，故选c。a“每个人都能玩魔术”和b“魔术只不过是一门技艺”不是例证要说明的问题，故排除。

5.[d]细节判断题。 根据diversi awareness定位到最后一段。该段最后一句表明，差异性意识的提升就应从我们如何观察世界这个大问题着眼，理解我们为什么那样看待差异，并切实保证我们能真正重视事物的差异，故选d。由该段第2句可知b错误;到了不熟悉的环境中，会碰到“差异性”的问题，但它不是提升差异意识的途径，故a错。c文中没有提到。

i lost my sight when i was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in atlanticcity and landing on my head. now i am thirty two. i can vaguely remember the brightness ofsunshine and what color red is. it would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strangethings to people. it occurred to me the other day that i might not have come to love life as i do ifi hadn't been blind. i believe in life now. i am not so sure that i would have believed in it sodeeply, otherwise. i don't mean that i would prefer to go without my eyes. i simply mean that theloss of them made me appreciate the more what i had left.

life, i believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. the more readily a person isable to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. theadjustment is never easy. i was bewildered and afraid. but i was lucky. my parents and myteachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which i didn't see, and theymade me want to fight it out with blindness.

the hardest lesson i had to learn was to believe in myself. that was basic. if i hadn't beenable to do that, i would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the restof my life. when i say belief in myself i am not talking about simply the kind of self confidencethat helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. that is part of it. but i mean something biggerthan that: an assurance that i am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewherein the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where i can make myself fit.

it took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. it had to start with the mostelementary things. once a man gave me an indoor baseball. i thought he was mocking me and iwas hurt. "i can't use this." i said. "take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." thewords stuck in my head. "roll it around! "by rolling the ball i could hear where it went. this gaveme an idea how to achieve a goal i had thought impossible: playing baseball. at philadelphia'soverbrook school for the blind i invented a successful variation of baseball. we called it groundball.

all my life i have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at atime. i had to learn my limitations. it was no good to try for something i knew at the start waswildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. i would fail sometimesanyway but on the average i made progress.

1. we can learn from the beginning of the passage that

a. the author lost his sight because of a car crash.

b. the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen.

c. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.

d. the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see.

2. what's the most difficult thing for the author?

a. how to adjust himself to reality.

b. building up assurance that he can find his place in life.

c. learning to manage his life alone.

d. to find a special work that suits the author.

3. according to the context, "a chair rocker on the front porch" in paragraph 3 means thatthe author

a. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.

b. was paralyzed and stayed in a rocking chair.

c. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.

d. would sit in a chair and stay at home.

4. according to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man

a. hurt the author's feeling.

b. gave the author a deep impression.

c. directly led to the invention of ground ball.

d. inspired the author.

5. according to the passage, which of the following is correct?

a. the author set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time.

b. the author suggested not trying something beyond one's ability at the beginning.

c. the bitterness of failure prevented the author from trying something out of e of his limitations, the author tried to reach one goal at a time.