文章大意:这是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者收到编辑发来的邮件,通知作者,作者的专栏被取消了。作者最初感到震惊,但并没有像过去那样悲伤、疯狂或不安。作者过去被解雇时会开始自我怀疑,但这一次就转变成了一种新的心态,认识到了自己需要成长。
1 . The email hit me like a punch in the gut. It came from my ________ and when I saw it had several paragraphs, I frowned. Quickly scanning for the vocabulary of bad news, I discovered words like “________”, “I’m sorry”, and “end”. Sure enough, my column—Science Careers was being canceled.
But despite my________ shock, I wasn’t as sad or mad or ________ as I might have been in the past. Previously, when I have been ________, I embodied (表现) the loss by ragging on and thinking________ about myself: “They” don’t value me because I don’t have value. And indeed, when I got the message about the________, my instinct was to immediately blame myself, dumping me into the familiar hopeless desert of ________.
But then, I surprised myself by quickly ________ to a new mindset. It wasn’t actually a failure, was it? Instead of letting the disappointing news start________, I was able to take a positive ________.I set out to make this not the day I was fired, but the day I was fired up and________to move my career to the next level.
Sometimes life sucks and things happen, and we cannot ________.Business decisions often impact our careers and yet have very little to do with our outputs. This decision wasn’t a ________ of me and my value. So when I heard that the column was a ________, I knew I was going to grow.
1. A.housekeeper | B.parents | C.editor | D.customers |
2. A.desperately | B.unfortunately | C.hopefully | D.thankfully |
3. A.initial | B.endless | C.various | D.regular |
4. A.moved | B.committed | C.disturbed | D.thrilled |
5. A.laid off | B.approved of | C.seen through | D.looked into |
6. A.remarkably | B.ambitiously | C.identically | D.negatively |
7. A.promotion | B.threat | C.column | D.application |
8. A.boundary | B.failure | C.tendency | D.distance |
9. A.switching | B.objecting | C.adding | D.comparing |
10. A.self-defense | B.self-respect | C.self-doubt | D.self-approval |
11. A.suggestion | B.perspective | C.assistance | D.breath |
12. A.commanded | B.allowed | C.warned | D.inspired |
13. A.discover | B.track | C.forget | D.control |
14. A.routine | B.dream | C.reflection | D.principle |
15. A.goner | B.victim | C.delay | D.rank |