四、完形填空。
In my early years at school, I had trouble with some subjects. I used to be a naughty boy in class and get really
poor
1
grades. It came as no surprise that I would get an F and that would make me really
scared
2
. So what I used to do was
cover
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those grades up—I would turn the F into a B just to
please
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my parents. Well, it didn’t work out. Later, I knew I had to
accept
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that failure and learn from it, and something good really came from it. I started doing better with my grades. That F turned into a B naturally, and that B turned into an A.
Since we were little, we have been always taught to believe failure is really a
shame
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and that we must feel sorry and guilty when we fail. So we work hard to
achieve
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commonly-believed success and stay away from failure.
However, this is a completely
wrong
8
idea. Life is full of ups and downs. From being a kid to
growing
9
into an adult, you will fail at many things in life. So it is
impossible
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to pay no attention to it. It is OK when failure happens. In fact, it only tells you about yourself. You get to learn about your
true
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abilities, what you are good at, and what you are not.
Whenever you
face
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a failure, never think that you are never going to get over from this. You must
come up with
13
ways to better yourself. Did you know it took Thomas Edison 10,000 tries to
perfect
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the light bulb? Bill Gates failed many times. Even his first company was a complete failure. J. K. Rowling was
refused
15
many times before her Harry Potter took off. All of these prove that you must learn from your failures, not run from them!
As Winston Churchill puts it, success is not final, failure is not fatal. And it is the courage to continue that counts.
(
C
)1. A. smart B. wonderful C. poor D. special
(
A
)2. A. scared B. relaxed C. excited D. amazed
(
D
)3. A. give B. show C. take D. cover
(
A
)4. A. please B. treat C. discover D. surprise
(
B
)5. A. manage B. accept C. suggest D. describe
(
C
)6. A. wisdom B. pride C. shame D. choice
(
D
)7. A. connect B. develop C. express D. achieve
(
A
)8. A. wrong B. strange C. popular D. usual
(
B
)9. A. running B. growing C. looking D. breaking
(
C
)10. A. necessary B. important C. impossible D. meaningless
(
B
)11. A. new B. true C. creative D. powerful
(
D
)12. A. create B. miss C. forget D. face
(
C
)13. A. care about B. put out C. come up with D. show off
(
B
)14. A. repair B. perfect C. paint D. decorate
(
D
)15. A. punished B. expected C. mentioned D. refused