Let's discover the reasons why successful people believe that opportunity lies in every failure.
Disappointment or failure shows that you are trying
The best way to gauge（衡量）your progress at something is to see how many times you failed. In case you haven't failed yet, chances are that you haven't tried hard yet.
Look at all successful men and women throughout our history, they all had one thing in common. That's to say they failed not once but several times before they achieved success. Let's take an example of Thomas Edison: he failed a lot of times to find right filament（灯丝）for his light bulb. Henry Ford had a stronger relationship with failure, which inspired him to quote this unforgettable saying “failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”
Achievement lies in looking at failure as an opportunity
Just like every successful person had one thing in common, similarly all unsuccessful persons throughout our history had one thing in common --- their inability to use failure as an opportunity and a tool. If you feel your one failure is your ultimate （终极的）failure, and that feeling of sinking down is known as an ultimate failure, you are pushing yourself away from your expected success. Achievement is all about finding out what mistakes you made, what is the main cause of that failure, and how you are going to make up for it. Success requires willpower, passion, hard work, intelligence, determination, but all of the above, success requires failure. Use your failure as an opportunity to learn, to become wiser and to reconsider your relationship with failure, the true key to success. 1. According to the writer, why do people keep themselves away from their success? A. Because they don't set long-term goals. B. Because they haven't got enough time.
C. Because they can't deal with failure properly. D. Because they are disappointed in themselves.
2. Why does the writer take the example of Thomas Edison? A. To explain the reasons for failure. B. To prove the importance of failure. C. To take pride in Thomas Edison.
D. To introduce the process of making a light bulb. 3. What can you learn from the passage? A. Failure can build up your confidence. B. Successful people seldom failed. C. Failure is more important than success.
D. Successful people use failure as a tool. 参考答案1. C 2. B 3. D
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