Even Intelligent People Can Fail

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The unusual things about the innovators (创新者) who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed. Turn on a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cell-phone. The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze (错综复杂) of wrong turns.

2._________

We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating a thin line to white, hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US. He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight (点亮着的) in an airless space for 45 hours. Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan, even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he turned it on, on September 4, 1882.

3.________

“Many of life’s failures,” Edison said, “are because that people did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light. But in only two cases did his experiments work.

4.________

No one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it. Mark Gumz, the head of a camera maker, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure. His popular phrase is：“You only fail when you quit.”

5._________

Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence (坚忍不拔). That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep on with what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland, was so penniless after a series of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the $1.50 to get his shoes from the repair shop. Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T Car.

221. There are 5 ________ in the passage about nanometer(纳米) technology we have just read. Please tell me the general meaning of the first one.

短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加﹑删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用（﹨）划掉。修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词的下面写出修改后的词。注意1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计。
We have just sold our house and were in the process of moving. While tidy up the
house, my mother filled a large container with colorful plant. One night, when I arrived home after school, I found something surprised: the container was filled with bones and the other dog foods! My dog Zane was not leaving his precious foods hehind! Seeing we were packing up to leave, Zane had decided that it was time of him to start packing, either. He  had taken all plants from the container and laid it out nearly on the floor, break only two plants. He had then put his own foods what he had found in the house into it.

--- We have just watched a wonderful movie! Iron man is really excellent!
--- ___________. I have never watched a better film than this one.

—Have you nearly finished?

   —  ____, we have just begun.

A. Above all       B. After all

C. On the contrary  D. On the other hand