I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've that the best way to do it is (to) let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He he was racing those cars around a great track, which in was an imaginary circle around a golden statue. The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to , the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this?” to the Oscar.
“Sure,” he smiled. “It's yours.”
The horrified mother . “Put that back immediately!”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me; it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to , rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ?Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. I . After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.
1.A.discovered B. inferred C. preferred D. worried
2.A.spend B. live C. affect D. enjoy
3.A.struggle B. work C. succeed D. concentrate
4.A.story B. fact C. idea D. figure
5.A.wrote B. told C. knew D. heard
6.A.saw B. recognized C. met D. visited
7.A.careful B. small C. lonely D. clever
8.A.pretended B. believed C. insisted D. suggested
9.A.fact B. case C. turn D. need
10.A.cared B. asked C. won D. looked
11.A.act B. leave C. play D. wait
12.A.running B. getting C. pointing D. shouting
13.A.shouted B. noticed C. suffered D. breathed
14.A.selling B. keeping C. earning D. sharing
15.A.special B. comfortable C. expensive D. necessary
16.A.rest B. cheat C. stop D. sit
17.A.difficulties B. events C. failures D. achievements
18.A.time B. future C. body D. brain
19.A.idea B. meaning C. dreams D. thoughts
20.A.obey B. permit C. wish D. agree
—Sorry, Bill, I can't go straight on and spend more time with you in Huangshan. ——_______
A. It was just like you. B. Isn't it as bad as that?
C. You're really a wet blanket. D. Accidents will happen.
The job interview is a challenge _______ the ability and talent of each interviewee is tested.
A. when B. where C. that D. which
--- This is the same watch ______ I left on the playground yesterday.
--- How can it be possible? I bought _____ the other day.
A. that; one B. that; it C. as; one D. as; that
John received an invitation to dinner, and with his work ________, he gladly accepted it.
A. finished B. finishing C. having finished D. was finished
---We are informed that the Weifang International Kite Festival starts at 7:00.
---Oh, I didn't expect it was so early! I ________ to go out for dinner with my friends first.
A. was planning B. am planning
C. have been planning D. have planned