Passage 3
If there is any single element that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to study defeat and actually profit by it in his next task. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are sure indeed to fail. For it isn’t defeat that makes you fail; it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.
Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are daily incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it without humiliation, study it and learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to heal its own cause. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can arouse(喚起) within use such a compelling desire to succeed. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended(懸掛).It is this same reaction that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you use the power which defeat gives, you can accomplish with it far more than you are capable of.
11.What does the author know?
A. It’s not mentioned in the passage.
B .He knows every success in life.
C. He knows at least several cases of success.
D. He knows every success that has been achieved by man.
12.The person who was able to analyze defeat is likely ______.
A. to achieve success
B. to be a successor
C. to be ashamed of his defeat
D. to let a baby grasp a rod
13.The author ______.
A. advises you to confuse defeat with failure
B. wants you to mistake defeat for failure
C. orders you to confuse defeat with failure
D. warns you not to confuse defeat with failure
14.Defeat is valuable ______.
A. in that it provides the guide and encouragement to success
B. because it forces you to face it without humiliation
C. because it makes you fail
D. because of your own refusal to see in it the guide and encouragement to success
15.What does the author advice one to do with the power which defeat gives?
One should ______.
A. make unfair use of it B. turn it to practical account
C. explore it D. explain it 轉
If there is any single element that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to study defeat and actually profit by it in his next task. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are sure indeed to fail. For it isn’t defeat that makes you fail; it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.
Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are daily incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it without humiliation, study it and learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to heal its own cause. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can arouse(喚起) within use such a compelling desire to succeed. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended(懸掛).It is this same reaction that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you use the power which defeat gives, you can accomplish with it far more than you are capable of.
11.What does the author know?
A. It’s not mentioned in the passage.
B .He knows every success in life.
C. He knows at least several cases of success.
D. He knows every success that has been achieved by man.
12.The person who was able to analyze defeat is likely ______.
A. to achieve success
B. to be a successor
C. to be ashamed of his defeat
D. to let a baby grasp a rod
13.The author ______.
A. advises you to confuse defeat with failure
B. wants you to mistake defeat for failure
C. orders you to confuse defeat with failure
D. warns you not to confuse defeat with failure
14.Defeat is valuable ______.
A. in that it provides the guide and encouragement to success
B. because it forces you to face it without humiliation
C. because it makes you fail
D. because of your own refusal to see in it the guide and encouragement to success
15.What does the author advice one to do with the power which defeat gives?
One should ______.
A. make unfair use of it B. turn it to practical account
C. explore it D. explain it 轉