1 . We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects(缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things_______!” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe_______.
These comments may come from stories about us that have been________for years—often from_____ childhood. These stories may have no _____in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical (操作机械的) skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life. ” How did these expectations________my development? I was never _____to work on cars or be around_______. When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later,______, I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. For my strong points, I________down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking. ” For the________, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills. ”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life_______ and told him about my_______ performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “_______is it that you can solve_______ mathematical problems, but you can’t solve easy mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t_______ from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to_______. At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been _____my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. ____, if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have genetic defects that we can never get over, we can do well in almost________we choose.
1. 2. A.them | B.myself | C.yourself | D.others |
3. A.said | B.spoken | C.spread | D.repeated |
4. A.as long as | B.as far back as | C.as well as | D.as much as |
5. A.evidence | B.wisdom | C.cause | D.meaning |
6. A.lead | B.improve | C.affect | D.change |
7. A.encouraged | B.demanded | C.hoped | D.agreed |
8. A.means | B.tools | C.facilities | D.hammers |
9. A.therefore | B.somehow | C.instead | D.however |
10. A.settled | B.turned | C.took | D.got |
11. A.short | B.other | C.weak | D.latter |
12. A.experiences | B.trips | C.roads | D.paths |
13. A.unexpected | B.poor | C.excellent | D.average |
14. 15. A.challenging | B.advanced | C.common | D.normal |
16. A.handle | B.separate | C.suffer | D.come |
17. A.believe | B.doubt | C.adopt | D.receive |
18. A.weakening | B.strengthening | C.questioning | D.accepting |
19. A.As a result | B.At the same time | C.In addition | D.Instead |
20. A.everything | B.something | C.nothing | D.none |