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Unit 1
There are many paths to greatne.Some people go down in history for their1)political leadership.Other are remembered for spectacular scientific 2)or writing 3)characteristics.They are relentlely 5)_ and persistent;they have both intellectual skills and the ability to work well with other people;and they love their work.In fact, 6 these people, work is more like an obseion than a job.Of course, many of the questions about greatne 7), unanswered.What roles so genetics and environment 8)9)will be remembered as great and which people, though famous today, will be 10)also poible that our 11)_who is great is not always fair or accurate.For example, the of 12)women are not recognized as often as they should be.Finally, we can’t even be 13)_really good to be great.Maybe the happiest people are the normal ones.Normal people aren’t endowed 14)what it takes to be great, but they also don’t have to worry 15)__ the burdens of history.Unit 2
Gratitude is defined as the art of showing 1)____ for every kindne, great and small.Usually,2)__gratitude costs very little, but its rewards can be great.When gratitude is owed but not given, however, as when we 3)_ to recognize a generous act on someone else’s 4)_feelings, and even resentment.Sometimes, truly deep gratitude calls for personal sacrifice.One 5)mother of world war II soldier who traveled from her home6)family who had 7)____ her son from Nazis.She was driven to 8)_this unselfish generosity which this family had shown her son.But gratitude can 9)_ be shown by very simple acts.We can start 10)_making sure that, in one way or another, we thank the family members and 11)_In sum, the 12)to gratitude is thoughtfulne, or 13)___ pains to consider the feeling of others as well as out own.Being generous and 14)_make the world a more pleasant place.For all of these 15)_ gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much..Unit 3
Traditional western ways of thinking can often lead to an 1)__ when we are confronting a truly difficult problem.This happened to Dr.Edward Jenner when he was trying to 2)_ up with a vaccine for the deadly disease known as smallpox.Jenner wasto solve the problem he faced by changing the 4)_within which he looked at it.Rather than focusing on people who had smallpox, he 5)carefully at those who seemed never to get the disease.This change in6)__ is an example of what is known as “lateral thinking.” The term means choosing not to approach a problem head-on, but instead looking at it
7)__.In lateral thinking, being able to take in and8)__ all kinds of ideas, no matter how unlikely theymightseem, is of the9)_from smokers who want to give 10)___ their habit, to archers who need to relax in order to perform 11)_their best.This idea does not 12)_thatsolutionswhich comefrom verticalthinkingarealways deeply13)14)_you get stuck struggling with a problem head-on, thinking laterally can help you to shift your point of view and perhaps see a 15)_you wouldn’t other wise notice.Unit 4
A recent educational experiment showed that the difference between “gifted” children and regular ones may have as much as to do with 1)__as with intelligence.An elementary school teacher was
2)_them to do outstanding work, even though their true IQs were well within the normal range.It seems that her belief in her students’ intelligence was enough to turn them 4)___exactly how such beliefs are expreed.It __have to do with how a teacher talks tothe cla: many positive, supportive expreions and few expreions of impatience, annoyance, or communication, including 8)_probably plays a role too.But one thingis clear: labels and expectations 9)____ as not, have a negative effect.The labelswe put on different social groups are usually not 11)____.In fact, they are often sexist or racist.Of 12)____ , there is good and bad in all kinds of people.But we 13)____to accept some ideas about certain groups more readily than about others.The school experiment shows that such labels have a
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Unit 5
When I came to prison, my reading skills were 1)____ and my penmanship was worse.But because I wanted to 2)____ some of the more well-read inmates, I decided to do something about it, I began by copying 3)_the dictionary.You know the dictionary had all kinds of information.It’s something like an encyclopedia in 4)__.But the most important result 5)__ studying dictionary was that it gave me the word 6)__ I needed to read 7)__.Soon, I could pick up8)_checked 9)all kinds of books from the prison library, both non-fiction and literature.I love to read so much that I could I always find myself 10)_in something when “lights out” came.I was so 11)_for knowledge that I would then lie on the floor and read by the faint 12)the guard coming back down along the corridor.Many people say that no true 13)_prison.But I felt that I learned more there than I could have in any college, even if no degree was 14)__where I could be left alone and allowed to read for up to 15 hours per day?
Unit 6
what does a young child’s ability not to eat a marshmallow 1)__ to do with succe in life? Quite a lot, as it turns out.The 4-year-old who is able to 2)__more self-control than will serve him or her well as an adult.This ability to control one’s 4)__part of what is called Emotional Intelligence.The children who demonstrate it will grow up to be better adjusted and
5)_succeful.Those kids who don’t have it are le likely to succeed when it comes to meeting challenges and 6)_with life’s frustration.In the past, our concept of intelligence was mainly limited 7)__the kinds of skills that 8)___ one to do well in school.But Emotional Intelligence 9)_ what it means to be smart by focusing on how the mind 10)_understanding of Emotional Intelligence can be every 11)help corporations manage employees, and help solve many social problems.These ideas are not very controversial, but some other13)_such a 14)__ and abstract idea would be reduced to a simple numerical measure in the 15)_ of an “EQ”.
