Vocabulary work
一
1. Accordingly
2. Credits
3. Ideal
4. Honorable
5. Conceive of
6. Defect
7. In short
8. Premise
9. Objective
10. Concept
11. Triumph
12. Induce
13. Vicious
14. Venture
15. As the case may be
16. verified
二
1. ideal
2. objective
3. negative about
4. honorable
5. external
6. as the case may be
7. premise
8. prevailed upon
9. defects
10. accordingly
11. is not consistent with
12. constructed
13. conceive of
14. verify
15. induce
16. vicious
三
1. This medicine is for external use, not to be taken orally.
2. It never occurred to him that people could deliberately do harm to others purely out of malice.
3. At the reception, an atmosphere of warm friendship prevailed there.
4. Many women can identify with the movie’s heroine, who struggles to gain respect and fulfill her ambtions.
5. He claimed credit for the success of this project even though he had contributed very little.
6. Women are often the first to fall victim to rising unemployment at a time of recession.
7. What he does isn’t consistent with her says.
8. I will start working or pursue graduate studies, as the case may be.
四
1. Set up
2. Set aside
3. Set back
4. Set out
5. Set about
6. Set off
7. Was going on
8. Went out
9. Go by
10. Has gone without
11. Go after
12. Went through with
13. Go over
14. Go into
15. Went off
16. Are going in for
Cloze
1. As
2. In
3. Confirm
4. Stupid
5. Way
6. Rather
7. That
8. Out
9. Longer
10. How
11. From
12. Sales
13. To
14. Continued
15. More
16. Still
17. Not
18. Self-image
19. Certain
20. From
21. From
22. come
Passage Translation
If you set out to do some business but failed, do not lose your confidence. There are great differences between that “I failed three times” and that “I am a failure”. As long as you try to learn from you failure instead of holding a negative view about yourself or identifying with failure, you are very likely to succeed in the future. Have you ever thought that those who have failed again and again are always the victims of bad self-image? They failed often because of not external reasons but internal reasons. Countless examples verify that if those people could be prevailed on to change their view and set up positive self-image, their performance would change miraculously. Success can come at any time, whenever you are thirty, forty or when it seems that you have failed all your life. Success in early years is sweet, but the late one is more tasty.
