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19.When you make a mistake,big or small,cherish it like it's the most precious thing in the world.Because in some ways,it is.
Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes,beat ourselves up about it,feel like failures,get mad at ourselves.
And that's only natural:most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad,that we should try to avoid mistakes.We've been scolded when we make mistakes-at home,school and work.Maybe not always,but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.
Yet without mistakes,we could not learn or grow.If you think about it that way,mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world:they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.
By trial and error-trying things,making mistakes,and learning from those mistakes-we have figured out how to make electric light,to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,to fly.
Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler,make speech possible,make works of genius possible.
Think about how we learn:we don't just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it.You don't just read about painting,or writing,or computer programming,or baking,or playing the piano,and know how to do them right away.Instead,you get information about something,from reading or from another person or from observing,then you make mistakes and repeat,making mistakes,learning from those mistakes,until you've pretty much learned how to do something.That's how we learn as babies and toddlers,and how we learn as adults.Mistakes are how we learn to do something new-because if you succeed at something,it's probably something you already knew how to do.You haven't really grown much from that success-at most it's the last step on your journey,not the whole journey.Most of the journey was made up of mistakes,if it's a good journey.
So if you value learning,if you value growing and improving,then you should value mistakes.They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.

56.Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?A
A.Because we've been taught so from a young age.
B.Because mistakes make us suffer a lot.
C.Because it's a natural part in our life.
D.Because mistakes have ruined many people's careers.
57.According to the passage,what is the right attitude to mistakes?C
A.We should try to avoid making mistakes.
B.We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.
C.We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.
D.We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.
58.The underlined word"toddler"in Paragraph 6probably meansD.
A.a school teenager learning to write     
B.a kindergarten child learning to draw
C.a primary pupil learning to read       
D.a small child learning to walk
59.We can learn from the passage thatB.
A.most of us can really grow from success
B.growing and improving are based on mistakes
C.we learn to make mistakes by trial and error
D.we read about something and know how to do it right away.

分析 本文属于议论文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要告诉我们错误的价值,错误可以让我们从中学到很多的东西,错误可以促进我们成长,让我们进步,因此我们要学会从错误中进步.

解答 56-59 ACDB
56.A.细节理解题.根据第三段首句中"most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad,"可知我们觉得犯错不好是因为我们大多数人都从年轻时就被教导犯错误是不好的;故选A.
57.C.细节理解题.根据最后一段第一句"So if you value learning,if you value growing and improving,then you should value mistakes."可知我们应该珍视错误,把它当做是一个学习的好机会;故选C.
58.D.词义推测题.根据文章第五段"Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler,make speech possible,make works of genius possible"可以推测此处表示"初学走路的小孩子",故选D.
59.B.推理判断题.根据文章最后一段"So if you value learning,if you value growing and improving,then you should value mistakes"可知"成长和提高是建立在错误基础之上的";故选B.

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