In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent (执着) in every task I devoted myself to. I was ____ that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small ____ made me change my mind.
One day my twoyearold son, ___ at a dozen of “stood” color markerpens, cheered excitedly，“Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ballpens, ____ to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ballpens just lay ____. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said ____， “Mummy can't help you.” To my surprise, he wouldn't listen and continued trying... I was dumbfounded by his persistence.
My son's behaviour reminded me of George who was always ____ in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, ____， there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised __ about him and ___ us to look up to him as a role model.
One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight？”
“Probably can't leave till midnight，” he said.
“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety？”
“____.”
“Don't you have time to be with your family at all？”
He shook his head slowly and ____ a sigh. “It's not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It's much too ____ to even think about letting go.”
A year later I resigned. The ____ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I've never seen him. But occasionally his aged ____ would come to my mind.
Until that day, ____ knowing why the ballpens couldn't stand up, the twoyearold had ____ the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ballpens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. ___， he already learned to let go of his previous ____ attempts.
In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to ____ them and then decisively let go of them immediately.
| 小题1: | | A．confident | B．consistent | | C．conscious | D．convinced |
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| 小题2: | | A．event | B．incident | | C．accident | D．affair |
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| 小题3: | | A．pointing | B．shouting | | C．screaming | D．laughing |
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| 小题4: | | A．insisting | B．requiring | | C．intending | D．urging |
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| 小题5: | | A．flat | B．silent | | C．still | D．quiet |
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| 小题6: | | A．deliberately | B．casually | | C．unintentionally | D．enthusiastically |
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| 小题7: | | A．interested | B．busy | | C．devoted | D．buried |
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| 小题8: | | A．therefore | B．however | | C．otherwise | D．though |
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| 小题9: | | A．high | B．highly | | C．well | D．much |
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| 小题10: | | A．promised | B．demanded | | C．inspired | D．appealed |
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| 小题11: | | A．At random | B．At times | | C．At most | D．At least |
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| 小题12: | | A．let off | B．let out | | C．sent off | D．sent out |
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| 小题13: | | A．encouraging | B．comfortable | | C．painful | D．ashamed |
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| 小题14: | | A．latter | B．later | | C．last | D．lately |
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| 小题15: | | A．picture | B．figure | | C．reflection | D．image |
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| 小题16: | | A．for | B．with | | C．without | D．besides |
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| 小题17: | | A．received | B．accepted | | C．refused | D．rejected |
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| 小题18: | | A．Generally | B．Eventually | | C．Additionally | D．Obviously |
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| 小题19: | | A．useless | B．endless | | C．hopeful | D．meaningful |
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| 小题20: | | A．clarify | B．distinguish | | C．identify | D．acknowledge |
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