2014年考研英语阅读新题型解析_大学英语阅读

2014年考研英语阅读新题型解析

　　Author and editor Norman Cousins wrote:People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.There is no doubt that if we can envision beneficial things happening,they have a way of actually occurring.

　　Stevens finally had a heart?to?heart talk with herself:I realized that I simply wasn?t a wit or an intellectual and that I could succeed only as myself.I began listening and asking questions at parties instead of trying to impress the guests.When I spoke,I tried to contribute,not to shine.Almost at once I started to feel a new warmth in my social contacts.They liked the real me better.If we are true to our instincts,most of us will find that we naturally develop certain trademarks.The discovery and expression of that uniqueness is one reason we are on this planet.Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self?confidence.

　　Many of us get interested in a field,but then the going gets tough,we see that other people are more successful,and we become discouraged and quit.But it is of ten the boring,repetitive sharpening of our skills that will ultimately enable us to reach our goal.

　　Horace Bushnell,the great New England preacher,used to say,Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do,and nobody else can do it.Some of us must find our place by trial and error.It can take time,with dead ends along the way.But we should not get discouraged because others seem more skilled.Usually it is not raw talent but drive that makes the difference.