Enthusiastic will take you further than any amount of experience."
How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into
opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote
Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is
the inner voice that whispers, " I can do it! When others shout, "No, you can"t."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983
Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn"t let up on her experiments. Work was
such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
Author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do
what we love as the fulltime career, we can treat it as a part-time interest, like the head of state who
paints, the nun who runs marathons, and the official who handcrafts furniture.
We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-bees" we need to turn the tears into sweat as we go
after "what can be".
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with our sense-finding pleasure in the fragrance of
a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old and the enchanging, beauty of a rainbow. It
is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lift in our steps and smoothes the wrinkles
from our souls.
B. Wake up your life
C. To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul
D. No pains, no gains.
B Years wrinkle the skin, but no give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
C. We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens"
D. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers in to friends.
B. Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.
C. We should make great efforts to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.
D Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize.
B. make less effort
C. make great effort
D. stop
B. love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six-year old child
C. love of life
D. love of beautiful rainbow
One day, a poor boy Howard Kelly who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods
from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to __1__ for a
meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve __2__ a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he
asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked __3__, so she brought him a large glass of milk. He
drank it __4__, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"
"You don"t owe me anything, " she __5__. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a __6__."
He said, "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only
felt __7__ stronger, but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up a nd
quit before this point.
Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her
to a big city, where specialists can be called __8__ to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now
__9__, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a
strange light 10 his eyes. Immediately, he 11 and went down through the hospital hall into her
room.
12 in his doctor"s gown he went in to see her. He 13 her at once. He went back to the
consultation room and 14 to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave 15 attention
to her case.
After a long 16 the battle was won. Dr. Kelly 17 the business office to pass the final bill to him
for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She
was afraid to open it because she was 18 that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she
looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her 19 . She read these words.
"Paid in full with a glass of milk.
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she 20 silently. "Thank you, God. Your love has spread through
human hearts and hands."
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In my dual (双重的) profession__1__an educator and health care provider, I have worked with many children infected with HIV. They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learned that great__2__can be found in the smallest individuals. Let me tell you about Tyler. Tyler was__3__infected with HIV; his mother was also infected. From the very beginning of his life, he was dependent on medications to__4__him to survive. When he was five, he had a tube inserted in a vein(静脉) in his chest. At times, he also needed extra oxygen to support his__5__. Tyler wasn"t__6__to give up one single moment of his childhood to this deadly disease. It was not __7__to find him playing and racing around his backyard, wearing his medicineloaded backpack and __8__his tank of oxygen behind him in his little wagon(小手推车). All of us who knew Tyler were impressed by his pure__9__in being alive and the energy it gave him. Tyler"s mom often 10 him by telling him that he moved so 11 that she needed to dress him in red. That way, when she peered through the window to check on him playing in the yard, she could quickly 12 him. This deadly disease eventually 13 down Tyler. He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, 14 did his HIVinfected mother. When it became 15 that he wasn"t going to survive, Tyler"s mom talked to him about 16 . She comforted him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon in heaven. A few days before his death, Tyler 17 to me to come to his hospital bed and 18 , "I might die soon. I"m not 19 . When I die, please dress me in 20 . Mom promised she"s coming to heaven, too. I"ll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me." | |||||||||||||||||||||
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