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必修五 Unit 1 高考提能练 阅读理解·组块专练——练速度 (限时：35分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2016·太原市高三第二学段测评)Youre 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 theres 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 selfimprovement 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. | 
