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In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent(执着)in every task I devoted myself to. I was   　21　that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small incident made me change my mind.

One day my two-­year-­old son, 　22　at a dozen of “stood” color marker-­pens, cheered excitedly, “Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ball­-pens, 　23　to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ball­-pens just lay 　24　. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said 　25　, “Mummy can’t help you.” To my 　26　, he wouldn’t listen and continued trying. I was struck by his persistence.

My son’s behaviour reminded me of George who was always 　27　in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, 　28　, there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised 　29　about him and 　30　us to look up to him as a role model.

One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight?”

“Probably can't leave till midnight,” he said.

“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety?”

“ 　31　.”

“Don’t you have time to be with your family at all?”

He shook his head slowly and +　32　a sigh. “It’s not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It’s much too 　33　to even think about letting go.”

A year later I resigned. The 　34　thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I’ve never seen him. But occasionally his aged 　35　would come to my mind.

Until that day, 　36　knowing why the ball­-pens couldn’t stand up, the two­-year-­old had 　37　the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ball­-pens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. 　38　, he already learned to let go of his previous 　39　 attempts.

In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to 　40　them and then let go of them immediately.

【回答】

21．A

22．B

23．A

24．D

25．C

26．C

27．A

28．B

29．D

30．B

31．D

32．A

33．C

34．B

35．D

36．C

37．A

38．D

39．D

40．C

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