职称英语考试

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Even Intelligent People Can Fail

1 The striking thing about the innovators whosucceeded 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, talkon a cell-phone （手机）. The innovators who left us thesethings had to find the way to success through a maze （错综复杂） of wrong turns.

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

3 "Many of life's failures," thesupreme innovator said, "are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up." Before that magical moment in October1879, 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 smartinnovators learn from it. Mark Gumz, the head of the camera maker OlympusAmerica Inc, attributes some of the company's successes in technology tounderstanding failure. His popular phrase is: "You only fail when youquit."

5 Over two centuries, the most common qualityof the innovators has been persistence. That is another way of saying they hadthe emotional ability to keep up what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founderof Disneyland, was so broke after a succession of financial failures that hewas left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the US$1.50 to gethis shoes from the repair shop. Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with onecompany and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car.

6 Failure is harder to bear in today's open,accelerated world. Hardly any innovation works the first time. But an impatientsociety and the media want instant success. When American music and moviemaster David Geffen had a difficult time, a critic said nastily that the onlydifference between Geffen Records （Geffen's company） and the Titanic （the ship that went down） was that the Titanic had better music. Actually, it wasn't. Afterfour years of losses, Geffen had so many hits （成功的作品） he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic all to himself.

1 Paragraph 2__________.

2 Paragraph 3__________.

3 Paragraph 4__________.

4 Paragraph 5__________.

A Importance of learning from failure

B Quality shared by most innovators

C Edison's innovation

D Edison's comment on failure

E Contributions made by innovators

F Miseries endured by innovators

5 People often didn't realize how close theywere to success when__________.

6 Before Henry Ford eventually developed theModel T car,__________.

7 Walt Disney was once so poor that__________.

8 The media demand that__________.

A he developed 3,000 theories

B he couldn't afford to buy a pair of shoes

C he found himself an unsuccessful man

D they quitted

E an innovation should work immediately

F failure is the mother of success

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