文章大意:本文是一篇议论文。文章作者从失败的简历开始,告诉读者不要去考虑我们做错了什么,而是要利用它们正确看待失败,把我们的失败当作学习工具,分析失败的原因,保持好的态度,把失败变成经验教训,继续前进,走向成功。
A good way to look at failure directly is by writing a failure resume (简历) or CV. Like social media, there, we usually only see our friends’ “highlight part”. When we look at others’ resumes, we get scared and think our resume doesn’t measure up. But even the most accomplished people have plenty of failure behind them — we just don’t see it.
Melanie Stefan felt this deeply as a scientist, so she wrote a different CV which of course boasted (夸耀) about her good grades, PhD, and published papers. But the way she deals with her failure CV is a model of what we all could do. “My CV does not reflect my great academic efforts — it does not mention the exams I failed, my unsuccessful PhD or scholarship applications, or the papers never accepted for publication. During the interviews, I talked about the one project that worked, not about the many that failed,” wrote Stefan in a column for Nature.
Stefan suggests keeping a draft on which you regularly log every unsuccessful application, refused proposal and rejected paper.
And that’s the point: not to consider what we got wrong, but to use that information to look at failure and realize it’s really okay, and also to use our failures for another purpose: as learning tools.
The point is to be real — with ourselves and about how the world works. Being real means taking an honest, critical, but also kind look at what we didn’t get right, and then doing our best to change what we can. Instead of focusing on how that failure makes you feel, take the time to step back and analyze the practical reasons that you failed.
So, practice being okay with failure, and turn your failures into lessons learned. And yes, sometimes we have to learn those lessons more than once, letting go of what you can’t change. And keep moving forward to success.
21. What does the underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refer to?
A.Plenty of failure. | B.A failure resume. | C.A highlight part. | D.A good way |
22. What does the second paragraph mainly tell us about Melanie Stefan?
A.All her failures in her career. | B.Benefits she got from her failures. |
C.The content of her own resume. | D.The difference between her resume and others’. |
23. What does Stefan advise us to do in our careers?
A.Regard failures as part of our life. | B.Keep a record of our failures. |
C.Value our achievements. | D.Long for failures. |
24. Which of the following best describes the author’s opinion?
A.No pains, no gains. | B.All roads lead to Rome. |
C.Where there is a will, there is a way. | D.Failure is the mother of success. |