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自己做错了什么，如何才能改正。如果别人能够给予帮助，那就不要羞于询问。

在我十几岁的时候，我没能得到我指望得到的那份工作，于是我便打电话给对我进行面试的人询问原因。他告诉我说：“因为你迟到了10分钟。浪费别人时间的雇员我们可要不起。” 这番解释让我消除了疑虑(我并非作为一个人而遭到拒绝)，并且使我获益匪浅。从那以后我再也没有为任何事迟到过。

成功鼓励人们重复过去的行为，因而远不及失败这个老师来得好。你可以从一次极糟的晚会中学会如何举办一次成功的晚会， 从第一次不当的选房中学到下次选房时要注意些什么。即使一次看似彻底的失败也能激发新的思路，引起方向的改变。

我的一位朋友学了12年的芭蕾，却未能成为一名舞蹈家。一位芭蕾舞大师拒绝了她，说：“你永远也成不了舞蹈家。你没有舞蹈家的身材。”在这类情况下，利用失败的方法就是勇敢地审时度势，问一问：“我还剩下些什么? 我还可以做些什么别的?”我的朋友收起了舞鞋，转而搞起了舞蹈疗法，一个她不仅胜任而且对别人也有帮助的领域。

虽然我们也许会羡慕随着成功而来的自信，但我们大多数人都敬佩面对失败时的勇气。有一种失败可以称作崇高的失败---即胸怀大志，竭尽全力，而在这被证明不够时，仍勇往直前这样一种独特的英雄主义。正如拉尔夫?沃尔多?爱默生所说的：“一个人的成功是由多次失败组成的，因为他每天都在进行试验、冒险，他跌倒的次数越多，前进的速度也越快……我听说在骑术中---一个人要被摔下马背后才会成为好骑手；那样他才不再因怕坠马而老是提心吊胆，才会任意纵马驰骋。” Text comprehension II.

1. Vicky didn't know how to cope with rejection or failure because everything had always gone so well for her.

2. She now realizes she was simply not suited for that job, and has another in which she is happy and successful.

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3. Two-valued orientation makes us see success and failure as the only two possibilities.

4. That “success” in one area is frequently accompanied by failure in another. 5. Success that’s too early can mean a person lacks preparation for other things in life; success that comes too easily can mean the person will not know how to deal with real challenges; and success that's achieved at the cost of the total quality of an experience can be a barrier to enjoying life fully and to trying anything new.

6. Lowering standards, shifting blame, offering a consolation prize and saying “it doesn't matter” are “failure prevention devices” that leave the child unequipped for life in the real world.

7. She learned something from her failure that's been valuable to her in her life ever since.

8. Success encourages repetition of old behavior, whereas failure can motivate us to try something different.

9. “Noble failure” is when a person aims high, tries their best, fails and moves bravely on.

10. Emerson means that fear of failure is a barrier to progress and achievement. You might say it this way: experiencing failure can make a person more confident and effective, because once s/he loses her/his fear of failure s/he can concentrate on achieving her/his aims. Vocabulary

III. 1. afford 2. preclude 3. emphasis 4. prone 5. applied 6. distinguished 7. obsessed 8. alike 9. enquire 10. impulse 11. practically 12. prompted IV.

1. We put in a request for a little extra time to finish the project, but the board turned us (or it) down.

2. The politician enjoyed a successful career at the cost of his relationship with his family.

3. The author is of the opinion that early success may eventually prove harmful to a person’s all -round development in the long run.

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4. I took your umbrella by accident—I’m sorry.

5. The bookshop was on the brink of failure until they branched out into CDs and cassettes.

6. With this out-of-date equipment, you can’t count on good results.

7. Students sometimes get in the habit of disrupting classes with annoying comments. In such cases, teachers are advised to send to the school psychologist.

8. Ever since she started her own business, she’s been much more satisfied with her life. Word building V.

A. a. departure b. exposure c. pleasure d. pressure e. composure f. enclosure g. displeasure h. disclosure

B. 1. exposure 2. displeasure (or pleasure, if someone thinks that’s funny!) 3. departure 4. disclosure; pressure 5. enclosure VI.

A. 1. d 2. a 3. f 4. g 5. h 6. b 7. c 8. e

B. 1. feedback 2. breakup 3. takeoff 4. setbacks 5. breakthrough 6. build-up Structure VII.

1. a) their laughter and conversation sound as if they’re enjoying each others’

company.

b) Their laughter and conversation sound as if they were in the same room with us.

2. a) the secretary has been working in her office late every night this week, as

if her boss is under serious deadline.

b) The secretary has been staying in her office late every night this week, as if she had no home to go to.

3. a) you’re so pale! You look as if you’re getting sick. b) You’re so pale! You look as if you had seen a ghost. 4. a) he acts as if he has a very high opinion of himself. b) He acts as if he were the heir to the throne.

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Cloze

VIII.

1 prone 2 in the long run 3 preclude 4 obsessed 5 though 6 distinguishing 7 positive 8 beneficial 9 Even if 10 therapy Translation IX.

成功鼓励人们重复过去的行为，因而远不及失败这个老师来得好。你可以从一次极糟的晚会中学会如何举办一次成功的晚会，从第一次不当的选房中学到下次选房时要注意些什么。即使一次看似彻底的失败也能激发新的思路，引起方向的改变。 X．

1. Protecting children from the knowledge that they have failed is anything but beneficial to their growth and development.

2. Emerson does not think there is a world of difference between success and failure.

3. A mature person is one who is good at turning failure into success.

4. She was so obsessed with becoming a success in ice skating that she never prepared herself for challenges of the real world.

5. He suffered a complete nervous breakdown when he learned that his company had gone bankrupt.

6. When talking about his success, Mr. Smith is very prone to exaggeration. 7. The company started by selling radios but now has branched out into selling computers as well.

8. In fact, failure is nothing to be afraid of. Once we learn how to use it, it can make a positive contribution to our growth and development. Reading analysis XI.

Presentation of one point of view: people are generally prone to what language expert S. I. Hayakawa calls ‘the two-valued orientation.’ We talk about seeing both sides of a question as if every question had only two sides. We assume that everyone is either a success of a failure.

Presentation of a contrasting view: in fact, infinite degrees of both are possible.