Unit 4 Sharing Language points课时作业

第一节 完形填空

　　Accomplishment is often deceptive (欺骗性的;误导的) because we don't see the pain and perseverance that produced it. So we may credit the 　1　 with brains or lucky break, and let ourselves off the hook because we 　2　 in both two. Not that we could all be concert pianists just by exercising enough discipline. 　3　, each of us has the makings of success in some effort, but we will achieve this only if we 　4　 our wills and work at it.

　　How can we acquire stick-to-itiveness (坚持)? There is no simple, fast 　5　. But I have developed a way of thinking that has 　6　 my own weak will more than once. Here are the basic elements.

　　"Won't" power. This is as important as will power. Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal, you say no to many more. Every prize has its　7　. The prize is the yes; the price is the no. Igor Gorin, the noted Ukrainian-American baritone (男中音歌手), told of his early days studying 　8　. He loved to smoke a pipe, but one day his professor said, "Igor, you will have to make up your mind 　9　 you are going to be a great singer, or a great pipe smoker. You cannot be both." 　10　, the pipe went.

　　Delayed gratification (满足). M. Scott Peck, M.D., the author of the best-seller The Road less Traveled, 　11　this tool of discipline as "a process of　12　 the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the　13　 by meeting and experiencing the pain first and 　14　 it over with."

　　This might　15　 routine daily decisions-something as 　16　 as skipping a favorite late-night TV show and getting to bed early, to be wide awake for a meeting the next morning. Or it might involve longer-term

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The secret of such commitment is getting past the pain and seeing the delight. "The fact is that many　18　efforts aren't fun," says one radio and TV commentator. "True, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But trying to turn everything we