湖北省武汉市部分重点中学2022-2023学年高二英语下学期期中联考试卷（Word版附答案）

武汉市部分重点中学2022-2023学年度下学期期中联考

高二英语试卷

考试时间：2023年4月19日 14:00-16:00      试卷满分： 150

第一部分    听力 （共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节    （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1.What costs the most according to the woman?

A. The car.     B. The repairs.    C. The driving lessons.

2.What did the man do yesterday? 

A. He cut wood.   B. He cooked a meal.   C. He watched movies.

3.What will the weather be like tomorrow probably?

A. Rainy.      B. Sunny.     C.Windy.

4.When will the man meet Tom?

A. 8:00 a.m.    B. 9:00 a.m.       C.5:00 p.m.

5.What is the woman?

A.Working in sales.  B.Working with people.  C.Working with numbers.第二节（共15小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分）

听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A.Teacher and student.    B.Father and daughter.    C. Teammates.

7. What does the woman think of science in the end?

A. It is dangerous.    B. It is strange.      C.It is great.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. How did Lucy first acquire the bike?

A.She bought it.   B. She borrowed it.     C. She was given it.

9. Who owned the bike before Lucy?

A. Her sister.     B. Her friend.     C. Her brother.

10. What concerns Lucy most about a bike?

A. The price.     B. The safety.     C. The color.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Where are the speakers?

A.In a hotel.     B.In a cave.    C.In a university.

12. How old are the paintings?

A. Around 500 years old.  B. Around 1000 years old.   C.Around 17,000 years old.

13. Who is the man?

A.A professor.    B.A painter.      C.A hotel owner.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What do we know about Stuart?

A.He's a tour guide.   B.He's a travel lover.    C. He's a delivery man.

15. What does Stuart recommend getting?

A. A map of the area.       B.A cell phone.     C.A hotel card.

16. What does Stuart say travelers should do?

A. Try not to travel alone.

B.Write down contact information.

C. Ask different people for directions.

17. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Suggestions about getting lost.

B.Advice on staying safe outside.

C.Tips for choosing a travel destination.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

18. What time did the examiner leave?

A.At 10:55.      B.At 11:00.       C.At 11:05.

19. Why did the examiner leave?

A. He had forgotten the paperwork.

B. He had to go somewhere else.

C. He had finished his work.

20. What does the speaker intend to tell the listeners to do?

A. Be prepared.    B. Try to be on time.     C. Never fear failure.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Whether you want a snowy or sunny winter getaway, these hotels are hot on our list of places to stay this winter.

Dive Motel &Swim Club: Nashville, TN

A former’50s motor inn, the new Dive Motel & Swim Club has been fully updated to look like the 70s. Choose to stay in one of 23 uniquely decorated rooms, each equipped with a disco ball and party switch. Book the Penthouse Suite for a private deck overlooking the pool, or become a Swim Club member and enjoy pool benefits anytime.

Hotel Joaquin: Orange Country, CA

A newcomer to coastal Orange County, Hotel Joaquin is a high-end hotel. This small-sized accommodation feels like a private beachside house, but with perfect service, well-prepared activities, fine dining and a relaxing pool. Restaurant Saline(for guests only)serves Mediterranean cuisine with a focus on fresh seafood. Even better, the hotel will pack a picnic to take to the beach—which is just steps away.

Hotel Orania: Berlin, Germany

Hotel Orania, located in the creative center of Kreuzberg, offers guests a five-star stay in recently-decorated rooms that are light and cheerful with warm wood accents and Asian influence. The restaurant specializes in a four-course meal featuring duck in each course. Catch a free concert in the hotel’s “salon” or sip a hand-crafted cocktail at the bar.

Snowpine Lodge: Alta, UT

The ski-in/ski-out Snowpine Lodge, located on the slopes of Alta Ski Resort just 40 minutes south of Salt Lake City, offers an excellent, cozy retreat. Having undergone a $50-million dollar decoration, the lodge now offers incomparable luxury and impressive facilities such as ski boot warmers, a fully stocked game room, and farm-to-table dining featuring slope views.

21．Which place best suits people who prefer Mediterranean cuisine?

A. Dive Motel & Swim Club.         B. Hotel Joaquin.

C. Hotel Orania.                  D. Snowpine Lodge.

22．What can you do both in Dive Motel & Swim Club and in Snowpine Lodge?

A. Warm your ski boots.  

B. Enjoy pool benefits anytime.

C. Enjoy a view from a specific perspective. 

D. Enjoy farm-to-table food.

23．Who is the text intended for?

A.Hotel managers.    B. Diners.   C. Sportsmen.   D. Travel lovers.

B

If you have ever seen the art of Jonathan Green, it is not likely that you will soon forget it. His paintings are bold and colorful, lively and cheerful. Green depicts a way of life that is rapidly disappearing. It is a way of life that he remembers with fondness from his childhood in the South Carolina Sea Islands.

Jonathan Green was born in 1955 in Gardens Corner, South Carolina, a region of the state known as the Low Country. The second of seven children, Green was raised by his maternal grandmother, Eloise Stewart Johnson. As he grew up, he was immersed in Gullah culture--a culture that placed great value on tradition, family, and community. Although Green had to travel to other parts of the world before he could fully appreciate his rich heritage, the basic elements of his culture eventually found their way into his unique form of artistic expression.

After Green graduated from high school, he joined the military. It seemed like a good opportunity for him to see the world and to receive an education. When he completed his military service, Green attended the Art Institute of Chicago. While he was in school, he worked part-time as a security guard at an art museum. This allowed him to study the work of the masters. He imitated their work at first, learning what made them so well respected. Then, Green found his own style and direction and began painting South Carolina's Gullah Islands, the world he knew best.

Jonathan Green's artwork is filled with everyday images of Gullah life as he remembered it growing up. His paintings show people hanging laundry out to dry, picking oysters, telling stories, and attending weddings and funerals. Water is found in many of his paintings because it plays an important role in the lives of people who live along the coast and on the islands.

Human beings are also found in nearly all of Green's work, indicating the importance of family and community to the culture. The faces of the people in his paintings are usually without features. This can be interpreted as Green's way of showing how the everyday lives and experiences of people are universal.The Gullah way of life is changing as children grow up and move away to larger towns and cities. Jonathan Green knows that his artwork cannot change what is happening to the area where he grew up. But his paintings can raise awareness of what is in danger of being lost and preserve the memories of a rich and colorful way of life.

24.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Green’s way of depicting is rapidly disappearing.

B. Joining the army broadened Green’s horizons.

C. Green’s artwork raised the awareness of changing the area .

D. Green imitated the masterpiece to show respect for the masters.

25. What are you most likely to see in Green’s paintings?

1. A landscape of a beautiful village. 
2. A realistic portrait of a mother telling story.
3. A fisherman casting a net.
4. A cute dog biting a bone.

26.What does the underlined word “immerse” mean ?

1. Participate.    B. Devote.    C. Contribute.   D. Expose.

27. This passage is ___________.

1. a profile    B. an auto-biography    C. a review      D. an initiative

C

A good night's sleep can make you feel better. Researchers say that quality sleep may even add years to people's lives.

Men who sleep well could live almost five years longer than those who do not. Women could benefit by two years. Researchers also found that young people who had better sleep habits were less likely to die early. But quantity of sleep was not in itself enough to achieve the possible health benefits. Quality of sleep is also important.

Good sleep was based on five different factors. These were: ideal sleep duration of seven to eight hours a night; difficulty falling asleep no more than two times a week; trouble staying asleep no more than two times a week; not using any sleep medication; and feeling well rested after waking up at least five days a week.

The findings suggested that about 8% of deaths from any cause could be attributed to poor sleep patterns. Dr Frank Qian is an internal medicine resident physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, America. He said: "We saw a clear dose-response relationship. So the more beneficial factors someone has in terms of having higher quality of sleep, they also have a stepwise lowering of all causes. "

The researchers included data from 172,321 people. They had an average age of 50. 54% of them were women. They participated in the National Health Interview Survey between 2013 and 2018. The survey looked at the health of the US population. It included questions about sleep and sleep habits.

People were followed for an average of 4.3 years. During this time, 8,681 died. Of these deaths, 2,610 (30%) were from cardiovascular disease. 2,052 (24%) was from cancer. And 4,019 (46%) were due to other causes. Among men and women who reported having all five quality sleep measures (a score of five), life expectancy was 4.7 years greater for men. And it was 2.4% greater for women. This was compared with those who had none or only one of the factors.

More research is needed to determine why men had double the increase in life expectancy compared with women who had the same quality sleep.

There is a limitation of the study. The sleep habits were self-reported and not objectively measured or checked.

28.Who is most likely to have a good sleep?

1. Alice, who falls asleep as soon as she touches the pillow after taking a     

sleeping pill every day.

2. Betty, who falls asleep quickly and has a nightmare at least 3 times a week.
3. Candy, who feels refreshed after sleeping tight weekdays.
4. David, who counts sheep and has a sound sleep every day. 

29.What can we learn from the passage?

1. The sleep habits in the study were reported by the test subjects.
2. Quantity of sleep was enough to achieve the health benefits.
3. Men had double the life span compared with women.
4. Poor sleep pattern caused 8% of deaths from all causes of cancer.

30.How did the researchers come to their findings ?

1. By referring to another study.
2. By consulting the authoritative agencies.
3. By interviewing the professionals.
4. By conducting data analysis.

31.What is the writer’s attitude to the the finding of the study?

1. Ambiguous   B. Objective   C. Indifferent   D. Doubtful

D

Nowadays some companies are attempting to grow seafood from cells in a laboratory rather than harvesting it from the oceans.

With massive problems with overfishing worldwide and growing demand for shrinking supplies of seafood, the way fish currently makes its way to our plates isn't a long-term viable option. Between 1961 and 2016, the average annual increase in global food fish consumption outpaced population growth. Those are figures not sustainable for us, the fish or the environment as a whole.

Cellular seafood could be the answer. Just don't make the mistake of calling it lab-grown fish. ''None of us in the industry would call it lab-grown seafood, '' says Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods. ''Finless Foods isn’t lab-grown. We experiment and create our science in the lab, but don't produce there. Our products come from a production base much like a farm as a production base for animals.''

Finless Foods is a tech company in San Francisco. Beginning in 2017, it's been working to bring to market a species of cultured bluefin tuna (蓝鳍金枪鱼) created using cellular technology. Shortly after that, the company produced its first pound of bluefin tuna meat for a cost of about $19,000. Since then, however, it's been the first battle to bring that price down.

Selden terms what Finless Foods is doing as ''cell-based seafood''. ''We're growing seafood from real seafood cells,'' Selden explained. ''We take cells from a fish once, and then grow them endlessly from that. We do the same process that happens inside of a fish and make it happen outside of a fish. ''

The goal of cellular seafood isn't to entirely destroy the current seafood industry. Instead, it's intended to augment it—and perhaps to help reduce some of the more harmful aspects of current fishing practices like overfishing and illegal fishing. And when it comes to certain sea species, this laboratory-based approach could help create a plentiful supply of certain fish without endangering the survival of certain overfished species as a whole.

32.What is the main function of the second paragraph?

A. Warning us of the shrinking seafood supplies.

B. Stressing the significance of cellular seafood.

C . Analyzing the reasons for global overfishing.

D. Showing the environmental effect of seafood.

33.What is the top priority of producing cellular seafood ?

A. Cutting down the high cost of production . 

B. Enriching the nutrient content.

C. Reducing harmful health effect. 

D. Simplifying the production process.

34.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Cellular seafood isn’t lab-grown food because it is processed in a production base wholly.

B. Finless Foods does the same process inside a fish as a fish does.

C. Finless Foods can create a new range of fish.

D. Cellular seafood can strengthen the current seafood industry.

35. What is the best title for the text?

A. Seafood in Cells.  B.Cheaper Seafood.

C.Insufficient Seafood Supplies.  D.Current Seafood Industry.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How to Choose the Right Career?

Choosing the right career can be difficult, and consequently you will find many of us can hardly find a suitable job in our daily life. ____36____

Evaluating your interests

Assess your hobbies. It is very easy to turn your hobbies or something you love doing into a future career. Many hobbies are related to real world needs and positions. Consider what you like to do and how that might fit into a career. Remain humble as you work toward your goal.

____37____

Consider what skills you are good at. If you are particularly good at certain skills, such as fixing things or making things, this can provide you with a great future career, since skilled labor is often in demand and you will find it fairly easy to find work. ____38____ People who interact with others well can easily get careers as social workers or in marketing and similar business positions.

Considering your current state

Explore yourself. Figuring out what you should do with your life may sometimes require you to get to know yourself better. If you want a career that will really make you happy, you have to have an impressive awareness of what you want and what you enjoy. ____39____

Thinking about your future

Examine your future financial security. One of the most important things to consider is if the career path you're choosing will provide you with an acceptable level of financial security. In other words, will you be able to make enough money to support yourself and your family? Meanwhile, you are supposed to pay special attention to your future job stability, ____40____ Accordingly, you will need to consider if the career you choose is stable enough for you and your desires for the future.

Admittedly, the combination of the above four steps proved extremely effective when choosing the future career. Once you get started, you'll find it quite beneficial and even enjoyable!

A．Assessing your skills

B．Assessing your personality

C．Therefore, having a defined career direction will help you achieve your goal.

D．Job markets changes a lot as society needs different things at different times.

E．For some people, this means taking some time off to decide what's vital to them.

F．If you have a good command of communicating with others, there are jobs for you as well.

G．However, with serious self-planning and self-reflection, you can set yourself on path towards a fulfilling career.

第三部分 语言运用(共两节,满分30分)

第一节 (共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)

阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

After a tearless farewell with my daughter, we left her new dorm room. But soon in the campus we saw her running against the August heat. I quickly 41._____ down the car window and Sarina didn’t miss a step as she turned and happily waved goodbye. I was in 42.______ why the tears hadn't come when we parted on her first day in university.

Our first 43. ______, the day she left my body, was a nightmare of pain and suffering. 44.______, our togetherness following the birth was so sweet that I felt her small body still seemed to be 45._____ to mine. In the years to come, the sound of her feet running around our house was like the gentle 46. _____ that reminded me that my little girl was here and that someday she would run the 47. ______ I couldn't follow.

Last year Sarina turned 16 and decided to 48. ______ art in college: She was 49.______ about college life with so much to expect, but I was uneasy because it would be a long plane ride away from home. I tried to imagine what separation would be like, but I couldn't. Separation, although on the 50. ______,still felt distant.

Until the next morning when I awoke in a house 51._____ of her footsteps, the tears 52. ______ came and wouldn't stop. I understood that Sarina had left the house, and I 53.______ the memory of her running. When the tears stopped, I was 54. _____ that with our love and support, she had the 55._______ to run to an unfamiliar distance, to glance back, yet to keep moving forward.

第二节 (共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)

阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

56. _______ (misunderstand)as a big enemy of health for years, fatty food isn’t the real driver of poor health . In recent years, quantities of evidence 57._______ (support)that people who take excessive sugar are more likely to suffer from poor health than 58. _______taking it properly. So the recommendation of the American Heart Association is that we 59. _______ (limit)ourselves to a proper amount of sugar 60.________(consume). Besides, keeping a balanced diet together with consuming 61._______(moderate) is a key to health, which provides us 62._______ necessary nutrition. Apart from eating slowly, a 63. ________(consist) eating habit also plays

64. ______ important role in health. All in all, we are 65. ______we eat！

第四部分 写作(共两节;满分40分)

第一节 (满分15分)

66. 上周末你参加了学校组织的“认识我们身边的植物”活动。请为校英文报写篇报道，内容包括：

1．活动的过程(先分班集中学习观测常识然后实地考察)；

2．收获与感想。

实地考察：a field trip

注意：

1．写作词数应为80左右；

2．请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

第二节 (满分25分)

67. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

    My teenage son, Jordan, always complained about having to be home earlier than all his friends. He would tell me that he was already seventeen, but still had a curfew(宵禁). He believed he was practically an adult. I pointed out that he was not an adult as he was still in high school.

    "You don't trust me!" he yelled. Before I continued, he rolled his eyes, slammed the door and walked away. I sighed. How could I make Jordan see that I only wanted to keep him safe?

    I decided to go for a walk, hoping the December air would clear my head. I opened the front door and nearly stepped on her: a small black cat, just like a meatball. "Hi, Meatball," I said, bringing her into my arms. I walked back in, touching her neck gently. Meatball seemed happy enough to come in the house, but after an hour or two, she sat by the door, meowing to go back outside.

    "Why won't she just stay in with us all the time?" Nathan, my youngest son asked.

    I explained to him that she was happy here but she liked being able to come and go as she pleased.

    "That must be nice"，Jordan muttered from the other room, complaining why the cat, not him, could come and go. He even asked me to give Meatball a curfew.

    Meatball became a regular.

One night, temperatures were unusually low. Meatball stood at the door, meowing to go outside.

I shook my head at her, afraid that she might freeze to death. She stared at me and meowed again. I patted her head, "I know you're not happy, but it's for your own good."

    "Mom's not being mean to you," Nathan told the cat. "She's just trying to keep you from turning into a frozen meatball." We both laughed at his joke.

    The next morning, I couldn't find Meatball. I asked the kids if anyone had seen her.

注意：

1．续写词数应为150左右；

2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

武汉市部分重点中学2022—2023学年度下学期期中联考

英语答案

1—5 BACCB    6—10 ACBAB 11—15 BCABA   16—20 CACBA

21-23 BCD   24-27 BCDA  28-31 CADB   32-35 BADA

36-40  G A F E D

41-45 ACDAB    46-50 DCBCD    51-55 BBCAD

56. Having been misunderstood   57. have supported    58. those    59. (should)limit

60. consumption    61. moderately   62. with     63. consistent    64. an    65. what

66.

Getting to Know the Plants Around Us

Last week, with the purpose of learning more about the importance of ecological balance, all students in our school participated in the field trip themed as Getting to Know the Plants around Us .

The meaningful activity began with a 30-minute instruction in each classroom, where students were instructed about basic principles of scientific observation. Then, the enthusiastic participants were led to a tiny forest to identify different kinds of tree species. Observing plants attentively, each student eagerly shared their findings .

The activity proved an incredibly great success as not only did it facilitate students' development but also it deepened their insight into the plant world.

67.

Jordan nodded, "I let her out last night." My mouth dropped open. "She was outside all night?" I was so furious, "It was freezing and she could die!" Jordan choked back his words, stunned. I grabbed my coat and rushed outside. Jordan followed, fear welling up in his eyes. Several minutes later, the poor thing was found, shaking and curling into a tiny ball. I picked her up, unsure whether she was alive or dead. Jordan was scared, "We need a vet! Now!"

As I drove to the animal hospital, Jordan sat in the back, holding Meatball inside his coat. I could hear him talking to the cat, apologizing repeatedly. Luckily, the vet saved Meatball Seeing her eyes open, Jordan stroked her head, all tears. Then, surprisingly, he turned to me. He apologized for what he had done. "I know you just want to keep me safe," he murmured. I felt a lump in my throat. He rubbed Meatball's back, "Looks like we are both going to observe the curfew. It's for our own good."

录音原文：

Text 1

M: I have finally passed my driving exam! The driving lessons cost so much money! It cost more than the old car I bought.

W: Congratulations! Yes, old cars are quite cheap — it’s the cost of repairs that is the most expensive thing.

Text 2

W: How do you feel today after cutting all that wood?

M: My shoulder aches. I think I did too much yesterday.

W: Take it easy today. Watch some movies and I’ll cook a nice meal for you.

Text 3

M: It’s going to rain all day according to the weather forecast.

W: Well, and it’s too windy tomorrow, so that ruins our plan to go hiking. I was hoping today would be sunny!

Text 4

M: I believe Tom is home from university tomorrow. I’d like to see him.

W: He’ll arrive at about 8:00 or 9:00 a.m., but he needs to rest. We’ll have dinner at 5:00 p.m. Would you like to join us?

M: Great.

Text 5

M: I think I’d be an excellent candidate for the job. I’ve had lots of experience working in sales — and I’m really good with people, like you.

W: I’m not good with numbers though, which is a big part of the job. But that is one of your strengths.

Text 6

M: OK, take the liquid and carefully pour it into the test tube. You must be very careful in case it burns a hole in the table.

W: Isn’t this a bit risky, sir? My dad is also a teacher and he says science can be dangerous.

M: Not if we take care and do it correctly. Now, once you have poured all of the liquid in, wait for it to react.

W: That’s strange — there’s a lot of smoke coming out of the tube!

M: Don’t worry — that’s supposed to happen. Just keep watching with your teammates. What else do you notice?

W: The color is changing! I love science!

Text 7

M: Is that a new bike, Lucy? It looks nice with a bright color.

W: Well, my sister bought it from a friend, but she hardly ever used it. I borrowed it so often that last month she just said I could keep it.

M: That was very generous of her. My brother would never lend me anything, let alone give a bike to me.

W: My sister doesn’t value too much of such thing.

M: That’s a good way to be. The less you own, the less you have to tie you down and worry about.

W: That’s right. How long have you kept your bike?

M: A couple of years now. It’s always been a good one. It never gives me any trouble.

W: That is the main thing you want from a bike. You need it to be reliable.

Text 8

M: This French cave is one of the best in the world in terms of ancient history.

W: When you say “ancient”, how far back in time are we talking? 500 years?

M: Try again.

W: 1000 years?

M: Most experts believe the cave paintings you see on the wall are around 17,000 years old.

W: What?! Are you serious? That’s incredible. I’m so glad we came to visit this cave. Staying at the hotel all day was becoming a bit boring, to be honest. I love getting close to history in this way.

M: Me too. As soon as I heard we were staying in this area, I immediately thought of these caves.

W: I didn’t realize you had heard of it. What else do you know?

M: Well, the cave was first discovered in 1940, opened to the public in 1948, then closed again in 1963. Because I’m a university professor, the staff here allow us to get in.

W: Wow! Thank you for taking me.

Text 9

W: You’ve traveled a lot, haven’t you, Stuart? I’m about to go traveling myself for the first time. What advice would you give me?

M: Well, there are lots of things I can tell you. Is there anything specific you want to know?

W: I do worry about getting lost. If I land in another city, in another part of the world, how can I find my way around?

M: When I arrive somewhere for the first time, I always try to get a map of the area from the airport or the hotel I’m staying at. And I get someone to write down where I am staying, so I can show it to people if I’m lost.

W: Have you ever found yourself somewhere strange, with no map or directions?

M: Oh, many a time. The thing to do then is ask for directions. But don’t just ask one person, because some people don’t like to admit they don’t know. Ask several people.

W: Who are the best people to ask?

M: It depends. Obviously, tourists might not be familiar with the area, and children might not know some places. Delivery people are good, because they drive around different places all the time.

W: What if there’s no one around?

M: Try to remember places like towers or tall buildings, near where you want to go. They can help you find your way.

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Today I want to talk about the importance of being prepared. There is a famous saying that goes: “If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.” It’s famous because it is so true. Let me share with you a story that happened to me recently that proves this.

Over the summer, I had to get the main bedroom of my house rebuilt. Last week, I organized for a building examination for 11:00 on Monday. Well, at 10:55, I was still in the shower. I had forgotten all about it! When the examiner knocked on the door, I rushed out of the shower. However, I hadn’t taken the time to upgrade all the paperwork. I was totally unprepared — not to mention completely embarrassed! By 11:05, the examiner had left. He couldn’t wait around for me to get ready as he was scheduled for another job somewhere else. I made him angry by wasting his time. Unfortunately, I had to book another appointment — and I had to pay twice!

The point I am trying to make is, please, whatever you do in life, always be prepared!