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We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
A．away B．off C．up D．down
A．them B．myself C．yourself D．others
A．said B．spoken C．spread D．repeated
A．as long as B．as far back as C．as well as D．as much as
A．basis B．plot C．cause D．meaning
A．lead B．improve C．affect D．change
A．encouraged B．demanded C．hoped D．agreed
A．means B．tools C．goods D．hammers
A．therefore B．somehow C．instead D．however
A．settled B．turned C．took D．got
A．passive B．active C．negative D．subjective
A．experiences B．trips C．roads D．paths
A．unexpected B．poor C．excellent D．average
A．When B．What C．How D．Why
A．complex B．advanced C．common D．primary
A．arise B．separate C．suffer D．come
A．believe B．suspect C．adopt D．receive
A．weakening B．strengthening C．abandoning D．accepting
A．As a result B．At the same time C．In addition D．On the contrary
A．anything B．something C．nothing D．all
When our restaurant business failed，we headed north in a camping truck to Texas，hoping to have a “fresh start”.
At the of Palo Duro Canyon (峡谷）State Park，I a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a ，permanent campsite in the park, and , the hosts served as a link between the park’s guests and the rangers (护林人). It was the perfect solution: a rent-free place to reorganize our lives. We entered the park and I made an for the following day.
The park was , so it took us some time to find an available site. That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks (臭鼠由）walking toward our table. We climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to our camp.
Having survived that night, we were that everything else would be all right. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our and gave us a beautiful campsite.
That evening, , we learned about the canyon . They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck violently，and we lay in the dark until the winds died away.
the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and the little money my wife by substitute teaching. Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time for building a successful
For a time after our business I thought I might lose my family as well.
Living in the tiny with no television, we sat close together reading and talking. One evening, standing under a jeweled sky，I found myself for all the hardships. We had walked the trails and climbed the canyon walls. We had become a family!
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If you want to learn a new language, the very first thing to think about is why. Do you need it for a ______reason, such as your job or your studies?_______ perhaps you’re interested in the ______ , films or music of a different country and you know how much it will help to have a _______ of the language.
Most people learn best using a variety of _______, but traditional classes are an ideal（理想的）start for many people. They_____an environment where you can practice under the _____ of someone who’s good at the language. We all lead ______ lives and learning a language takes _____. You will have more success if you study regularly, so try to develop a ______. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t got long. Becoming fluent in a language will take years, but learning to get by takes ____.
Many people start learning a language and soon give up. “I’m too _____, ” they say. Yes, children do learn languages more _____ than adults, but research has shown that you can learn a language at any ______. And learning is good for the health of your brain, too. I’ve also heard people _____ about the mistakes they make when ______. Well, relax and laugh about your mistakes ______ you’re much less likely to make them again.
Learning a new language is never ______. But with some work and devotion, you’ll make progress. And you’ll be _____ by the positive reaction of some people when you say just a few words in ______ own language. Good luck!
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Although I love my life ,it hasn't been a lot of fun as I've been ill for 28 years.
Music has always been a great love of mine and ,in my 20s,when my_ _was move manageable ,I _ _ ten years as a professional singer in restaurant .playing and singing folk songs. _ _ that was years ago and times have changed . _ _ I live with my mother on a country farm .
Two years ago, I decided that I would need to love some kind of extra work to __ __ my disability pension (残疾抚恤金）. _ __ I needed to sleep in afternoons. I was limited in my _ __I decided that I would consider _ _ to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians ,so I was _ _when I went into our local music store .I explained that I waned to sing again but using recorded karaoke music I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn't have a lot of _ _to get started ,And _ _ you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can __ __use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my_ _ ,he gave me a long use the gave me a long ,thoughtful __ _.
“This means a lot to you , doesn't it ?"be said . “Come with me.”
He led me_ _ the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand _ _on his treasure and said . “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your _ _ and I´ll record them for you .That should get you started.”
I _ _ . Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose _ _ that I could sing . I have come full circle with his help.
His _ _still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra , which I have the chance.
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Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age five with her family. While her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(an) in medicine. At 18 she married and a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a . Her husband supported her decision.
, Canadian medical schools did not women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte to Montreal and set up a private . Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte herself operating on damaged limbs and setting bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practicing without a license. She had a doctor’s license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was . The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to __her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appeared to the Manitoba Legislature to a license to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte to practice without a license until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993, 77 years after her , a medical license was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
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A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, a bar of chocolate if given the choice, , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
as high as he could, but even as his tallest he was unable to touch It. He began to up and down , as high as he could, at the of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple . Still it remained out of . Not giving up , he though , if only he had something to on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to the things inside , like his lunch box , pencil case , and Gameboy. Looking , he hoped he might find an old box , a rock , or , luck , even a ladder , but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use. He had tired everything he could think to do. seeing any other choices , he gave up and started to walk . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his , and how he really wanted that apple . The more he like this , the more unhappy he became.
,the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what get he wanted .He started to say to himself . This isn’t ,I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well.There’s more I can do to get the apple-that is unchangeable-but we are supposed to be able to our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?
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