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In one way of thinking, failure is part of life. In __
1__ way, failure may be a way towards success.
The "Spider-story" is often __
2__. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in
a cave from the English. He watched a spider __
3__ a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough
__
4__ in the rock. He tried six times. On the
__5__time he made it and went on to make his web.
Bruce is said to have been encouraged by this and to have gone on to __
6__ the English. Edison, the
inventor of the light bulb, made __
7__ models that failed before he found the right way to make one.
Once he was asked __
8__ he kept on trying to make a new type of battery when he had failed so
often, he replied, "Failure? I have __
9__ failure. Now I know 50,000 ways it won't __
10__."
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused __
11__? Were conditions right? Were
you in top from yourself? What can you change? So things will go __
12__ next time.
Second, is the goal you're trying to reach the right one? Try to do some __
13__ about what your real
goals may be. Think about this question. "If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?" This may help you
prevent failure in things you shouldn't be doing any way.
The third thing to keep in __
14__ about failure is that it's a part of life. Learn to " live with yourself "
even though you may have __
15__.
( )1. A. other ( )2. A. told ( )3. A. doing ( )4. A. room ( )5. A. tenth ( )6. A. save ( )7. A. hundred ( )8. A. why ( )9. A. not ( )10. A. do ( )11. A. one ( )12. A. high ( )13. A. thinking ( )14. A. heart ( )15. A. failed |
B. another B. said B. taking B. house B. sixth B. help B. hundreds B. when B. no B. make B. it B. large B. shopping B. eyes B. succeeded |
C. first C. talked C. making C. place C. eighth C. defeat C. hundred of C. what C. never C. took C. that C. right C. reading C. ears C. finished |
D. second D. spoken D. playing D. soil D. seventh D. kill D. hundreds of D. who D. nothing D. work D. this D. bright D. cleaning D. mind D. passed |