Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the controlling string and the clumsy tail kept them in tow(牵引), facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They flew beautifully even as they fought the forced restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”

　　Yet freedom from control simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic gentle wind. It flew ungracefully to the ground and landed in a twisted mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”. Free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to settle down lifeless against the first roadblock.

　　How much like kites we sometimes are. There always exist misfortunes and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Prohibition is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us pulled at the rules so hard that we never fly fast to reach the heights we might have obtained. If we keep all the commandment(戒律), we will never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

　　Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the prohibitions are actually the steady force that helps us climb and achieve.

【2017年高考英语一轮复习讲练测：必修4.5《Theme parks》（测）（原卷版）】相关文章：

★ 2017届高考英语二轮复习课时训练：21（含解析）

★ 2017年高考英语二轮复习精品资料：专题14 阅读理解（教学案）（原卷版）

★ 【北师大版】2014届高考英语一轮复习指导课时作业：Unit 10 A卷 Word版含解析

★ 2014年牛津译林版高中英语总复习（第1轮）同步练习 M3《Unit 3 Back to the past》

★ 2017高考四川省广安市英语阅读理解一轮系列训练：7（含解析）

★ 【浙江专用】2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(二十七)选修6Unit 2《Poems》

★ 四川省2016届高考英语一轮复习课时作业（28） Module 4 Carnival 外研版必修5

★ 【人教版】2014届高考英语一轮复习指导考点针对练：必修1 unit3《Travel journal》

★ 【北京专用】2014届高考英语一轮复习方案课时作业：必修4 Unit 4 Body language

★ 2017届高考英语二轮复习课时训练：7（含解析）