泛讀教程2

《泛讀教程2》由西安交通大學出版社出版。

Learn from Failure

It was a few minutes before air time and the talk-show host was aboutto begin his radio program. He poured himself a cup of coffee and then，turning to me， said something surprisingt“You know， this job never gets any easier，” said this knowledgeableman who for years presided over an extremely popular call-in show. “Everytime I go on the air， I have to overcome a fear that I‘ll fail； that the show won’t be any good.”

He paused. “But I‘ve found out something interesting about failing.And that is， you can build on success but you really learn only from failure. “

A few days later， a letter arrived that seemed， in a way， to continue this line of thought. Written by a young man I know quite well， the letter concerned itself with the idea that adversity might offer， in the long run，more rewards than getting what you thought you wanted. My correspondent wrote ：

“What I guess I’m learning from my difficult situation is a deeper sense of who I am. And what I‘ m capable of when it comes to handlingdisappointment. I think at least I hope I’ll come out of this a strongerperson.”

Then last week， in what seemed a curious completion of the philosophy lurking beneath both these remarks， I came across this unattributed uuotation in a book on mountain climbing， “Today is a new day， you‘ll get out of it just what you put into it. If you have made mistakes， even serious mistakes， you can make a new start whenever you choose. For the thing we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”

Few among us can claim the distinction of not knowing the sting of falling down， of “failure”： the promotion not gotten； the honor not won； the job lost； the praise denied.

Unit 1 Job Hunting

Text A The More One Learns, the More One Loses

Text B Tips on Job Hunting

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading A CV Example

Unit 2 The Other Side of the World

Text A What Do You Say after You've Said "Hello"?

Text B Pets Are Almost Like Family

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading The "War" over the Traffic Police

Unit 3 Science

Text A Can Babies Be Designed?

Text B Computer and Chess

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Top 10 mysteries in Space

Unit 4 Sports Heroes

Text A Li Ning

Text B Michael Jordan

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Lance Armstrong

Unit 5 Food We Eat

Text A Holiday Eating——Food for Thought

Text B Working Dinner

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Food Shock

Unit 6 Unusual Families

Text A Confessions of a Stepmother

Text B Come to Our House

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Foster Adoptions

Unit 7 Environmental Protection

Text A Pollution Is a Dirty Word

Text B Waste Deep

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading 40 Ways to Save the Earth

Unit 8 World Rivers

Text A River and Civilization

Text B The Huang He

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading The Mississippi River

Unit 9 Focus on China

Text A A Year without "Made in China"

Text B North American Hospitality ——Underdone

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Learn to Get Along with China——A prominent American's letter to his grandchildren

Unit 10 Father and Son

Text A Rooftops

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Unit 11 Movies

Unit 12 Automobiles

Key to Some of the Exercises

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