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 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。
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