文档介绍：成败： Passage 1
In one way of thinking, failure is also part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The “spider-story” is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times to span the gap. On the seventh time, he made it and went on to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart (become encouraged or more confident) and to have gone on to defeat the English. Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. Once he was asked why he kept on trying to make a new type of battery when he had failed so often. He replied, “Failure? I have no failures. Now I know 50,000 ways it won’t work.”
So what (如此那又如何)? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top form yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?
Second, is the goal you are trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question, “If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?” This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.
The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it’s part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t win them all.”
1. This passage deals with ___________ .
A. failure and success B. two sides of failure
C. the “spider-story” C. the invention of light bulb
2. In the first paragraph, the author talks mainly about .
A. the value of failure B. how people fail
C. famous failures D. how not to fail
3. Robert Bruce was put in the passage to show that .
A. failure must come before success B. failure isn’t all bad
C. nature will help us if we let it