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After my brother died in an accident, my mom’s attitude toward safety greatly changed. Suddenly, everything around us was potentially 1 .

I grew up with a lot of 2 and rules that were meant to protect me. I 3 my mom was only trying to protect me. She 4 about me because after my brother died, I was her only child – and what if something happened to me?

I became a 5 worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my job – 6 big and small, real and imagined.

The funny part is you’d 7 know it by looking at my life, because I’m constantly 8 myself to do the things that frighten or worry me. In fact, I’ve developed a 9 for myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I’ve done lots of things that my 10 would have worried about: I’ve ridden a motorcycle, and I’ve traveled – a lot.

There’s something else I don’t usually talk about, 11 it’s a cornerstone in my belief. When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At her funeral I remember making a 12 . I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be “ 13 ” or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, 14 and, yes, sometimes dangerous life.

In the end I think she would have been 15 of me. Courage isn’t a natural quality of human beings. I believe that we have to 16 being courageous; using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that 17 me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I 18 thought I could do.

Even though I inherited my mother’s 19 nature, I’ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing, if we 20 it. Believing that has made my world a less scary place.

1. A. boring B. difficult C. amazing D. dangerous

2. A. orders B. restrictions C. goals D. standards

3. A. agreed B. disliked C. knew D. imagined

4. A. thought B. worried C. argued D. complained

5. A. natural B. normal C. flexible D. arrogant

6. A. diseases B. events C. disasters D. adventures

7. A. still B. never C. always D. even

8. A. forcing B. allowing C. expecting D. warning

9. A. hope B. nature C. rule D. courage

10. A. friends B. brother C. dad D. mom

11. A. so B. but C. since D. when

12. A. plan B. belief C. choice D. rule

13. A. unhappy B. quiet C. positive D. safe

14. A. exciting B. frightening C. smooth D. independent

15. A. careful B. aware C. afraid D. proud

16. A. practice B. admit C. enjoy D. remember

17. A. interest B. confuse C. scare D. surprise

18. A. regularly B. occasionally C. shortly D. originally

19. A. modest B. cautious C. quiet D. cheerful

20. A. face B. attack C. share D. govern

D

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before he got cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. 1 was “having the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were 2 . Unfortunately, the cookie kept 3 . Some of the time it was money, or power. At 4 times, it was the biggest contract (合同), the most famous address. A year and a half 5 his diagnosis (诊断) of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head 6 .

“It’s like I stopped learning 7 to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 8 he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It’s taken me this long to 9 that the cookie will 10 make me happy for long. The minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble or you start to 11 about it breaking or about someone 12 to take it away from you. You know, you have to give up a lot of things to 13 the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be 14 that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it 15 you are so busy just trying not to 16 it. Having the cookie is not what life is about.”

My patient laughs and says cancer has 17 him. For the first time he is 18 . No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf.

“Two years ago, cancer asked me, ‘Okay, What is really important?’ Well, life is important. Life. Life any way you can have it, with or without the 19 . Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being 20 . Before, who made the time?” He pauses thoughtfully. “I guess life is the cookie.”

1. A. Business B. Cancer C. Happiness D. Success

2. A. bad B. good C. special D. simple

3. A. changing B. losing C. breaking D. crumbling

4. A. early B. most C. other D. some

5. A. before B. previously C. during D. after

6. A. regretfully B. shyly

C. cheerfully D. thoughtfully

7. A. what B. why C. how D. where

8. A. Thus B. But C. Also D. And

9. A. understand B. imagine C. admit D. wonder

10. A. always B. sometimes C. never D. still

11. A. worry B. believe C. care D. know

12. A. choosing B. expecting

C. pretending D. trying

13. A. get rid of B. take care of

C. take hold of D. make use of

14. A. sure B. curious C. happy D. lucky

15. A. unless B. though C. because D. while

16. A. take B. choose C. lose D. consider

17. A. defeated B. changed C. troubled D. defined

18. A. sad B. confused C. pessimistic D. happy

19. A. cookie B. cancer C. wealth D. power

20. A. unique B. rich C. alive D. proud

轻松一刻

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.

– Thomas J. Watson (chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM), 1874-1956)

失败也许令你沮丧，但你可以从中学习。勇敢地向前走，去犯错，去犯一切可能的错。要记住，那是你可以找到成功的地方——在失败的另一边。

——托马斯·沃森

George bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of tricks.

One day George offered to take his friend Mark up in his plane. Mark was delighted to go with him.

They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air. When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking voice: “Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane.”

George was very surprised and said, “Two trips?”

“Yes, my first and my last,” answered Mark.