My brother and I were in Orlando Florida to witness our first Space Shuttle Launch. The Discovery was
to soar at 10:14 AM on a blue sky September day. I’d seen it
so many times on television,
now I was only minutes away from seeing it launch. And it’s the final demonstration of the
of success: Success Takes Off Like a Rocket.
Witnessing the Take Off:
Standing close to the Space Shuttle
home one unforgettable point—the Shuttle is the height of a 15-story building—it
4.5 million pounds—and NASA is trying to lift it 200 miles off the ground. On TV the accomplishments look so much
, so much easier.
Crowds of people are standing around with you to watch the Shuttle go. The countdown begins through the small
of hundreds of portable radios all tuned to the NASA station. It’s enough to get your heart beating
.
When time is up, the side booster rockets are lit up and the eight explosive bolts
. The first things you see are large white
clouds exploding away. Through the steam, you see the fire power. Then the Space Shuttle begins to inch off the pad and climb its way
. Thousands upon millions of pounds of
can hardly lift the shuttle at all. But with ever increasing ease, the shuttle picks up and roars into the sky, headed into space attaining a
of over 17,000 mph.
It is within the first two minutes to launch the Space Shuttle that the great success lesson is
. Fact: 85% of the shuttle’s fuel is consumed within the first 2 minutes just to get the 15-story super structure to its orbital
.
And that’s exactly how success
: The first steps you take towards launching a successful career are the
and will require an enormous consumption of energy—a great big push. However,
you persist through the launch period, which can seem almost
for quite some time, everything gets easier and easier and your results get bigger and bigger.
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| 小题2: | | A．rise up | B．come up | C．step up | D．go up |
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| 小题3: | | A．but | B．and | C．as | D．therefore |
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| 小题4: | | A．universe | B．world | C．nature | D．air |
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| 小题8: | | A．rockets | B．workers | C．speakers | D．actors |
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