单选题 The comfort zone is our living, work, and social environments that we have grown accustomed to. It determines the type of friends we make or people we associate with. It determines a life style we accept or reject.
Young people are very adaptable; they can adjust to changing comfort zones with ease. They can socialize with homeless people in the morning and be equally at ease at a formal banquet in the evening. As we age, the ability to adapt to wide-ranging comfort zones becomes more difficult. Social prejudice narrows the comfort zone range. The comfort zone can be a decision making tool.
Comfort zones are directly related to our dreams or goals, which is associate with self-fulfilling prophecy (预言). In order to grow and change, we must first be discontent with our current comfort zone . We must realize that all meaningful and lasting changes occur first in daydreaming and then they work their way into reality. The more clearly and vividly we fantasize our dream, the stronger and more real the pictures on the subconscious level will become. Once our subconscious accepts this image and its expectation, it will go to work, searching for a way to bring the dream into reality. If we feel that these things are too good for us, we will find ways to fail. If, however, we intentionally imagine the change we want, build an expectation of the change mentally and emotionally, and we will find ways to acquire dream and, when mentally ready, it will arrive faster than we ever thought possible.
For some people, problems, suffering, poverty, bad breaks are their comfort zone. They find comfort in finding fault and complaining about their misfortune. The same is true for businesses. Management and workers have grown used to seeing things go wrong and expect them too. Management finds comfort in finding fault with workers and vice versa.
Note if the comfort zone we are seeking is beyond our current income, then, we need to develop a service that has greater value than our current one. Money, power and influence are not goals; they are rewards only for personal achievement.

单选题 As one grows older, ______.

单选题 What does "be discontent with our current comfort zone" (Para. 3) mean?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 第三段前两句“Comfort zones are directly related to our dreams or goals...we must first be discontent with our current comfort zone.”。
逻辑推断题。根据本句上下文，我们得知，舒适带与我们的梦想和目标直接关联，因为它与我们的自我实现也相关联。为了成长和改变，我们一开始就不满足于当下的舒适带。D选项，我们不满足于现在的生活，与题意相符。本题也考查了单词，题干disconnect和选项中dissatisfied两词为同义替换，都为不满意的。

单选题 According to the author, daydreaming ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 第三段第三句“We must realize that...way into reality.”。
逻辑推断题。文中第三段，为了成长和改变，我们一开始就不满足于当下的舒适带。我们必须意识到，所有有意义的和持久的改变都最先出现在我们的白日梦中。所以daydreaming(白日梦)的最终目的是实现有意义的和持久的改变，选项C符合题意。

单选题 It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 第四段第一句“For some people...are their comfort zone.”。
逻辑推断题。根据第四段可知，对一些人来说，问题、折磨、贫穷、倒霉也是他们的舒适带。他们在挑错和抱怨不幸中寻求安慰。问题、折磨、贫穷、倒霉，都是举例说明不好的，消极的事情。故选项B，并不是所有的舒适带都是积极的，符合题意。