I PrepareThe quotation in Mencius: “Thus,when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his minds, hardens his nature,and supplies his incompentencies.”tells us that an important factor for success is .
A. preparations
B. opportunities
C. failures and frustrations
I ExploreFrom the quotation“Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration”, we can know the secret of success is .
A. hard work
B. good method
C. taking actions
I ExploreThe saying fromLao Zi:“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” implies .
A. nothing is difficult if oneputs hisheart into it.
B. things are done from the beginning and accomplished step by step.
C. one can accomplish difficult things as long as he perseveres.
I Analyze & I ApplyRead the following passageand match theunderlined sentencewithcorrect expression of exampleessay.1.When failure knocks you down,will you have the guts to get up and get going? Or will you give up? Achieving success can be difficult, while giving up seems better than going on.But the principle of rising after each fall to try again applies to all struggles.2.History informs us that stories of success are also stories of great failures.3.Take the young Winston Churchillas an example.He did not exhibit signs of greatness as a child.He hated mathematics, andat Ascot School,he had to be frequently caned by the principal.At Harrow, he failed the entrance examination.He also failed the entrance test to Sandhurst Military College twice and scraped through on the third attempt.He was undeterred by these failures and went on to become the greatest Prime Minister England ever had.Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors throughout the history of mankind, invented the first electric light bulb, after he tried thousands of kinds of materials and experienced thousands of times of failures. Once a journalist interviewed Edison, and asked him, 4. “Mr. Edison, you’ve conducted 5,000 experiments, and you failed 5,000 times. Give it up.”But Edison responded, “I didn’t fail 5,000 times. I succeeded 5,000 times. I succeeded in showing what doesn’t work.”Eventually, Edison lit up the world with his invention.Of course, success is not achieved overnight. 5. Just like Winston Churchilland Thomas Edison,every time they failed, they learnedfrom failuresand keptgoing.6. As a famous proverb goes, “failure is the mother of success”.7. So don’t quit.A second effort or a third or a fourth pays off.Match theunderlined sentencewithcorrect expression of exampleessay.1.A. example2.B. quotation3.C. statement4.D. conclusion5.E. direct speech6.F. question7.G. explanation