In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent (执着) in every task I devoted myself to. I was ____ that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small ____ made me change my mind.
One day my twoyearold son, ___ at a dozen of “stood” color markerpens, cheered excitedly,“Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ballpens, ____ to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ballpens just lay ____. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said ____, “Mummy can't help you.” To my surprise, he wouldn't listen and continued trying... I was dumbfounded by his persistence.
My son's behaviour reminded me of George who was always ____ in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, ____, there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised __ about him and ___ us to look up to him as a role model.
One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight?”
“Probably can't leave till midnight,” he said.
“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety?”
“____.”
“Don't you have time to be with your family at all?”
He shook his head slowly and ____ a sigh. “It's not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It's much too ____ to even think about letting go.”
A year later I resigned. The ____ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I've never seen him. But occasionally his aged ____ would come to my mind.
Until that day, ____ knowing why the ballpens couldn't stand up, the twoyearold had ____ the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ballpens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. ___, he already learned to let go of his previous ____ attempts.
In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to ____ them and then decisively let go of them immediately.
A.confident B.consistent C.conscious D.convinced
A.event B.incident C.accident D.affair
A.pointing B.shouting C.screaming D.laughing
A.insisting B.requiring C.intending D.urging
A.flat B.silent C.still D.quiet
A.deliberately B.casually C.unintentionally D.enthusiastically
A.interested B.busy C.devoted D.buried
A.therefore B.however C.otherwise D.though
A.high B.highly C.well D.much
A.promised B.demanded C.inspired D.appealed
A.At random B.At times C.At most D.At least
A.let off B.let out C.sent off D.sent out
A.encouraging B.comfortable C.painful D.ashamed
A.latter B.later C.last D.lately
A.picture B.figure C.reflection D.image
A.for B.with C.without D.besides
A.received B.accepted C.refused D.rejected
A.Generally B.Eventually C.Additionally D.Obviously
A.useless B.endless C.hopeful D.meaningful
A.clarify B.distinguish C.identify D.acknowledge