时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:03.91]1995 Passage2
[00:07.24]There are two basic ways to see growth:
[00:10.26]one as a product, the other as a process.
[00:14.18]People have generally viewed personal growth as
[00:17.21]an external result or product
[00:19.72]that can easily be identified and measured.
[00:23.45]The worker who gets a promotion,
[00:25.67]the student whose grades improve,
[00:28.30]the foreigner who learns a new language
[00:31.24]--all these are examples of people
[00:33.35]who have measurable results to show for their efforts.
[00:37.90]By contrast, the process of personal growth
[00:41.18]is much more difficult to determine,
[00:44.01]since by definition it is a journey
[00:46.58]and not the specific signposts
[00:49.01]or landmarks 1 along the way.
[00:51.33]The process is not the road itself,
[00:53.94]but rather the attitudes and feelings people have,
[00:57.58]their caution or courage, as they encounter
[01:00.30]new experiences and unexpected obstacles.
[01:04.64]In this process, the journey never really ends;
[01:08.23]there are always new ways to experience the world,
[01:11.66]new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.
[01:16.80]In order to grow, to travel new roads,
[01:20.02]people need to have a willingness to take risks,
[01:23.35]to confront the unknown,
[01:25.06]and to accept the possibility that they may "fail" at first.
[01:29.91]How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being
[01:33.65]is essential to our ability to grow.
[01:36.67]Do we perceive ourselves as quick and curious?
[01:40.60]If so, then we tend to take more chances
[01:44.04]and to be more open to unfamiliar 2 experiences.
[01:47.97]Do we think we're shy and indecisive?
[01:51.40]Then our sense of timidity can cause us to hesitate,
[01:55.24]to move slowly, and not to take a step
[01:57.92]until we know the ground is safe.
[02:00.74]Do we think we're slow to adapt to change or
[02:03.77]that we're not smart enough to cope with a new challenge?
[02:07.60]Then we are likely to take a more passive role
[02:10.82]or not try at all.
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[02:13.34]These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt
[02:16.26]are both unavoidable and necessary
[02:19.48]if we are to change and grow.
[02:22.01]If we do not confront and overcome
[02:24.53]these internal fears and doubts,
[02:27.15]if we protect ourselves too much,
[02:29.21]then we cease to grow.
[02:31.28]We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.


1 landmarks
n.陆标( landmark的名词复数 );目标;(标志重要阶段的)里程碑 ~ (in sth);有历史意义的建筑物(或遗址)
  • The book stands out as one of the notable landmarks in the progress of modern science. 这部著作是现代科学发展史上著名的里程碑之一。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The baby was one of the big landmarks in our relationship. 孩子的出世是我们俩关系中的一个重要转折点。 来自辞典例句
2 unfamiliar
adj.陌生的,不熟悉的
  • I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
  • The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。
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abel-smith
alfonzo
american automobile association
annattos
anode-balancing coil
archipel
arteriae mentalis
ash hopper
atomic club
Ban Chen
biometeorology
bolt with countersunk collar
book cover
buoyages
burn a hole in your pocket
Burukan
carcharhinids
ceropria induta
cheat sheet
clean collection
close pack
clubcorp
cocking
common pile driver
contour plane
Detroit-6-cell
diderma cingulatum rimosum
diesel engine driven centrifugal pump
dignans
disk data base
edge firing
elasmosaur
endopituitrina
escheator
evans
fall plowing
feed full and well
Fenazolo
fiber couplers and connectors
financial compensation
fluoroscopy of chest and abdomen
fumaroid
genus Talinum
Glibornuridum
Heliangelus
holders of record
horse-loaf
hyper-pre-beta-lipoproteinemia
in a ... fashion
intaglio printing ink-feeding rub-ber blanket
Jases
job groups
kasuyu
Litse Cubeb
Lofty, Mt.
low-voltage commutator
marginalizable
Max Brand
mosquito coil
noncomposed
nonplanarity
normative reference group
nosewort
obradovich
overcomable
Phosphacol
population shift
portable battery pH-meter
pre-reconnaissance party
pressed thread
protoveratrines
pseudocercospora pruni-persicicola
rail carrier
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ridge sowing
rim of the flywheel
scientific analysis
shellworks
shy breeder
single core barrel
slenderizes
social amplification of risk
solid tetrachloride
somatic nerves
specific gravity factor
spheric pair
sprounting
stationary blade groove
statistica methodology
steel tunnel liner plate
stocking-stuffers
Tarenna depauperata
tawny-moor
Thracological
took stock of
toxidermitis
tumble short of
unmineable
wearing blade
White Plains
Will never see thirty again
WNIM