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?”
“___1___.”
“Don’t you have time to be with your family at all?”
He shook his head slowly and ___12___ a sigh. “It’s not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It’s much too ___13___ to even think about letting go.”
A year later I resigned. The ___14___ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I’ve never seen him. But occasionally his aged ___15___ would come to my mind.
Until that day, ___16___ knowing why the ball-pens couldn’t stand up, the two-year-old had ___17___ the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ball-pens and kept only those water markers 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 let go of them immediately.
语篇解读: 作者通过自己的儿子以及以前一位同事的例子说明:当意识到目标无法实现时,应该学会接受失败,懂得放手的道理。
1.A. convincedB. confident
C. conscious
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