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Preparing for tomorrow
Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms.Shelton believed in readiness.Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of eighth-grade on the 36 .They quickly protested that the words were not on their 37 and they couldn’t learn them.
Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these 38 .She said that she would teach them something that should be given.Ms.Shelton 39 by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on to 40 , maybe even be president someday, and she wanted to prepare them for that day.
Ms.Shelton spoke those words many years ago. 41 did she know that someday one of her students—Jesse Jackson—would take them 42 .She believed that if they were well prepared, they could 43 high goals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “People only see what they are 44 to see.” If that’s true, then it is also 45 that they only become what they are prepared to become.And many things in life are just about getting ready.
“I want to be doing something more 46 with my life than what I am doing now,” a young man once said to me.He 47 what he was doing was just not that important.Other people have said things to me such as, “I only 48 I had a meaningful relationship.” And, “I’d really like to get a better job, but I just don’t see 49 .”
You fill in the blanks.What is it you would like to 50 that isn’t happening? Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet 51 .Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that which you 52 .
Think of today as another chance to 53 yourself for the exciting future you are looking for.Today is not wasted.If you desire more from 54 , then you can use today as training.For you will experience only what you are prepared to 55 .Something wonderful can happen.And you can use today to get ready for tomorrow.
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Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.
Here is an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.
Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of mean excitement. Later we might tell our family of friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.
Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?
In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.
There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s started ,it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.
【小题1】According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our ______.
A.self-respect | B.financial rewards |
C.advertising ability | D.friendly relationship |
A.lying | B.stealing | C.cheating | D.advertising |
A.telling the truth to the clerk |
B.offering advice to the clerk |
C.asking the clerk to be more attentive |
D.reminding the clerk of the charged item |
A.We’ll be very excited. |
B.We’ll feel unfortunate. |
C.We’ll have a sense of honor. |
D.We’ll feel sorry for the clerk. |
A.How to Live Truthfully |
B.Importance of Peacefulness |
C.Ways of Gaining Self-respect |
D.Happiness through Honorable Actions |
— Susan, will you please go and empty the rubbish?
— ______?
A. What for B. What is it C. How is it D. How come
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