Question

Indeed, many failures are experienced in our lives and the effect could be extremely unpleasant. I do have a share of my experience and you might have yours too. As the sayings goes, “Experience is the best teacher.” Many people believe it’s the other way around. Experience, in fact, can be the worst teacher since it takes the first before you learn the lesson.

Often, when people around us try to comfort us that we shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves, we say “sure”, yet we are doing otherwise. We are becoming too hard on ourselves because failure is something that wouldn’t leave your mind quickly. Failure is something that can make you regret spending money, time, and effort but all go down the drain. But it is common everywhere and it usually leads us to success.

“There were once two prison men sitting behind the bars. One saw mud while the other saw stars.” In this story, those two prison men were paying the costs of their actions. However, as they faced their situation, one prisoner was completely defeated by his depression. But the other prisoner held his head up with his hopes and dreams. As you may well notice, failure happens, but people deal with it quite differently.

However, true failure comes in when you react negatively to the situation. True failure is about giving up completely. It is about being unable to recognize that if you look at the midnight skies, the stars are still shinning. See, no matter how disheartening and discouraging your fall was true failure is about not getting up and not moving on. You must accept failure as a great opportunity for you to learn. You will also be able to learn from the failures of other people. But it’s your own failure that will help you meaningfully.

1.The saying “Experience is the best teacher.” in Paragraph 1 means_____.

A. experience is really good at teaching

B. the best teacher usually experiences a lot

C. something valuable can be learned from failure

D. the worst teacher can teach you how to be successful

2.The writer tells us people’s attitudes toward failure by_____.

A. listing some true facts

B. mentioning a story

C. showing some figures

D. blaming the two prison men

3.Which of the following is TRUE about the failure according to the text?

A. We can’t live without failure

B. It is easy to get rid of failure

C. People should try to avoid failure

D. People should treat failure properly

4.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. Failure opens the door to learning

B. Experience is interesting and pleasant

C. Success is not easy for us to achieve

D. Everything comes from failure

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.A

【解析】

解题分析： 对于失败不同的人有不同的态度，客观事物不以人的意志为转移，人不能改变世界。但是我们可以改变对失败的看法。

1.】推理判断题。根据第一段说到一句谚语“经验是最好的老师” 和最后一段You must accept failure as a great opportunity for you to learn. You will also be able to learn from the failures of other people.得知你可以从失败中学到很多有价值的东西。选C。

2.】推理判断题。根据第三段“There were once two prison men sitting behind the bars.可知作者通过讲述两个狱中人对同一事物的不同看法这个故事，来阐述人们对失败的不同态度。选B。

3.】细节理解题。根据最后一段However, true failure comes in when you react negatively to the situation. True failure is about giving up completely. 真正的失败是在你反应消极，完全放弃的时候，因此要正确对待失败。选D。

4.】最佳标题。根据最后一段总结你必须接受失败是提供给你一次学习的机会。因此选A最恰当。

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