Bear in mind：__4__But there are few real reasons we ever need to delay (延迟) making a big one when it presents itself. Remember, life is always uncertain and time waits for no one.

　　Making a big decision doesn't have to be so difficult. There are no right or wrong answers or right or wrong ways to live your life. __5__ Your inner wisdom (智慧) has the answers. So get busy asking the person who knows best - you.

　　A．What is the risk of not doing it?

　　B．How long have I been thinking about this?

　　C．Not all decisions need to be made immediately.

　　D．We always want to know what we need to do next.

　　E．You don't have to ask other people what they think.

　　F．Ask yourself: What do I want five, even ten years from now?

　　G．Think about the amount of work, effort and time you'd have to put in.

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　　"It was said she was married to an officer in India long ago and she had a life of physical adventure as exciting as her poetry. Her husband could cross rivers, using crocodiles (鳄鱼) as stepping stones. He died when she was only thirtynine. Unwilling to exist without him, she took her life, leaving a son in England."

　　I stared at the paper, __1__ reading, and I couldn't help thinking.

　　They say, crocodiles are lazy animals as a rule, but they can __2__ like lightning when they want to. And they don't mind hurrying __3__ they're hungry. There used to be lots in Indian rivers, living on fish mostly; but what's a little fish __4__ a fifteenfoot crocodile? They ate people, fisherman or anyone else delicious enough to get too near; women doing the __5__， or children playing at the water's __6__. A hungry crocodile's mouth __7__ over a meal with a sound like a gunshot. A big fellow can __8__ in a man in two bites.

　　That woman's husband crossed rivers __9__ from one crocodile's back to the next. I believe it. It had to be done __10__ before the creature could see what was happening. It wasn't __11__ a brave, active man; and no doubt he improved with practice. He could never look __12__ while crossing.

　　The wife used to watch him - I felt __13__ of that. She lived __14__ the adventure - the __15__ excitement of it all. Their real life was with tigers, snakes ... It's no wonder she wrote __16__ poetry.

Then he __17__. I imagined how she felt. Was there another man __18__ him in India, in the world? She was still young, hardly a sittingroom widow (寡妇). "I must __19__， too，" She said to herself. So she did what she felt she had to do. A __20__ probably, to her head.