Until that day, 16 knowing why the ballpoint pens couldn’t stand up, the two-year-old son had 17 the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ballpoint pens and kept only those marker-pens for his“game”. 18 , he already learned to let go of his previous 19 attempts.
In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to 20 them and then decisively let them go immediately.
【文章大意】作者自小就被父母和老师教育: 做任何事都要执着, 但一次两岁的儿子试图将圆珠笔竖起来, 结果却没能成功, 这让她想起一个名叫George的朋友, 他是个工作狂, 心中只有工作, 没有家人, 结果妻子与他离婚。这让作者意识到生活中有许多自己不能做的事, 该放手时就放手, 这样生活才能有乐趣。作者欣慰地看到自己的儿子在玩笔的游戏中已经学会了这一点。
1. A. confident B. consistent
C. conscious
D. convinced
【解析】选D。前后照应题。因为小时候, 父母和老师教育“我”做每件事时都要执着。所以“我”一直相信(I was convinced)执着是成功的唯一途径。
2. A. event B. incident
C. accident
D. affair
【解析】选B。词义辨析题。event多指重要、有意义的大事件; incident指平常小事; accident指意外事故; affair泛指事件, 事务。此处语境指儿子玩记号笔, 应为平常小事。
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