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When I was a boy of 12, something happened to me that taught me a good lesson. We lived on the 36 of a forest, and every evening, birds would come and 37 in the trees and sing. There wasn’t a musical 38 made by man that could produce a more beautiful 39 than the song of the birds. So I 40 that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way I would have my own private 41 .
I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, being 42 , the bird fluttered (扑腾) about the cage, but finally it 43 down in its new home. I felt very 44
with myself and looked forward to some beautiful 45 from my little pet.
The next day, my new pet’s mother flew to the 46 with food in her mouth. The baby bird 47 everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to 48 her baby.
The following morning when I went to see my pet, I found it lying in the cage, 49 . What had happened! I had taken extremely care of my pet, or so I thought.
Arthur Wayne, an expert on birds, was visiting my father at the time, hearing me 50
over the death of my bird, explained what had happened. “A mother bird, 51 her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it 52 berries (草莓). She thinks it better for her young to die than to live without 53 .”
54 since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have the 55 to live freely.
36. | A. top | B. ground | C. edge | D. way |
37. | A. rest | B. hide | C. jump | D. move |
38. | A. party | B. work | C. design | D. instrument |
39. | A. scene | B. sound | C. voice | D. band |
40. | A. knew | B. thought | C. decided | D. imagined |
41. | A. room | B. hobby | C. musician | D. property |
42. | A. excited | B. lonely | C. angry | D. scared |
43. | A. broke | B. settled | C. lay | D. sat |
44. | A. pleased | B. nervous | C. tired | D. strict |
45. | A. singing | B. dancing | C. words | D. gift |
46. | A. forest | B. sky | C. cage | D. tree |
47. | A. returned | B. rejected | C. received | D. ate |
48. | A. find | B. feed | C. love | D. teach |
49. | A. dead | B. asleep | C. ill | D. wounded |
50. | A. talking | B. looking | C. crying | D. going |
51. | A. putting | B. finding | C. leaving | D. hearing |
52. | A. nice | B. red | C. unknown | D. poison |
53. | A. food | B. mother | C. freedom | D. family |
54. | A. Ever | B. Never | C. But | D. Just |
55 | A. right | B. time | C. place | D. chance |
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Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man w
ho seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new an
d better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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