Letting go of success
I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've____ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully ____ today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never ____ while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The ___ is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once ____ a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend ____ Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her ____ son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He____ he was racing those cars around a great track, which in ____ was an imaginary circle around a golden statue (雕像). The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable ____ for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to ____, the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this?” ____ to the Oscar.
“Sure, ” he smiled. “It's yours.”
The horrified mother ____. “Put that back immediately!”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me; ____it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a ____ hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to____, rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past ____ and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ____? Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the ____ of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. I ____. After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.
小题1:A discovered B. inferred C. hoped D. worried
小题2: | A.spend | B.live | C.understand | D.enjoy |
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小题3: | A.struggle | B.work | C.succeed | D.learn |
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小题4: | A.story | B.fact | C.idea | D.news |
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小题5: | A.wrote | B.told | C.knew | D.heard |
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小题6: | A.saw | B.recognized | C.met | D.visited |
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小题7: | A.careful | B.small | C.lonely | D.clever |
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小题8: | A.pretended | B.believed | C.insisted | D.suggested |
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小题9: | A.reality | B.case | C.turn | D.need |
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小题10: | A.cared | B.asked | C.won | D.looked |
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小题12: | A.running | B.getting | C.pointing | D.shouting |
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小题13: | A.objected | B.noticed | C.suffered | D.breathed |
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小题14: | A.selling | B.keeping | C.earning | D.sharing |
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小题15: | A.special | B.comfortable | C.expensive | D.necessary |
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小题17: | A.difficulties | B.events | C.failures | D.achievements |
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小题18: | A.time | B.future | C.body | D.brain |
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小题19: | A.idea | B.meaning | C.dreams | D.thoughts |
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小题20: | A.obey | B.permit | C.wish | D.agree |
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