一、From my early career as a doctor and now as an author and leadership expert, I help people learn about the power and happiness that come with the correct mindset (心态). To teach this mindset, I first teach people the effect of making excuses, which will 1 them to believe the external (外部的) false 2 and keep them from stepping into the power they have to 3 happiness and success.
Take me and my 4 to lose weight for example. When I was 25, I weighed 150 pounds. To make the 5 of my weight become smaller, I seemingly did whatever I could in a few months, but I 6 saw good results. So I started whole-heartedly believing I had a thyroid(甲状腺)problem. Later I went to my doctor, and she 7 a series of tests carefully. Then she shared with me the 8 news that my thyroid was perfectly 9 . While she was excited, I was a bit 10 . You see, I’d told myself that I had done 11 I could to lose weight. But only when my doctor helped me accurately 12 my habits did I realize that I was only making a half-hearted 13 . I was dieting from morning until afternoon, however, after 3 pm, I 14 myself some chocolate for my "hard exercise". I didn’t make enough to lose weight, 15 I wrongly contributed it to a medical 16 .
A lot of us live our lives in the same way. We 17 see external inexact reasons and believe our half-hearted efforts were real. We should 18 making excuses and change our mindset to live actively in reality. Now I have 19 my mistake and I look slim. You should also 20 to turn your excuses into good results.
1.A.warn B.inform C.cause D.invite
2.A.lessons B.methods C.events D.phenomena
3.A.create B.believe C.recover D.ignore
4.A.choice B.curiosity C.desire D.response
5.A.effect B.improvement C.standard D.number
6.A.fairly B.hardly C.mainly D.partly
7.A.found B.confirmed C.ran D.designed
8.A.great B.strange C.ridiculous D.false
9.A.unusual B.painful C.serious D.healthy
10.A.pleased B.depressed C.shocked D.scared
11.A.something B.everything C.anything D.nothing
12.A.analyze B.change C.form D.develop
13.A.task B.project C.decision D.attempt
14.A.brought B.bought C.rewarded D.offered
15.A.for B.but C.or D.as
16.A.problem B.treatment C.accident D.skill
17.A.even B.only C.yet D.also
18.A.take away from B.take up with C.get out of D.get rid of
19.A.made B.corrected C.repeated D.acknowledged
20.A.learn B.agree C.afford D.promise
