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Unit 11.选词填空1. Given the chance to show his ability, he regainedconfidence and began tosucceed in school.2. It is so difficult to explore the bottom of the ocean because some parts arevery deep.3. It was about 30 seconds before Alex emerged from the water; we werequite scared.4. We often assume that when other people do the same things as we do,they do them for the same reasons; but this assumption is not always reasonable.5. There is widespread concern that the rising unemployment may pose athreat to social stability.7. It is well known that China is a country with rich natural resources anda verybig population.8. Some people believe that the earth can yield enough food to support atleast twice its present population.9. Saminherited the gift of imagination from his family, but he lacked thedriving power to take action.10. A bee that has found honey is able to transmit to other bees the information they need in order to collect the honey.2.15选10attain赢得，获得，得到fascinating迷人的，吸引人fulfill履行，执行pursue追求，致力于available可获得的可利用的qualify使合适，合格raise提升，增加passion强烈的爱好，热爱virtually实际上1 / 19classify分类归类acquire获得，取得，学到fashionable流行的especially特别的sample样品，标本prosperous繁荣的3.选词组open the door to 给···以机会in advance 预先，提前all at once 同时，一下子reap the benefits (of) 得享（某事物）的好处make the most of最大限度的利用某物over time逐渐地，慢慢地get by过活，活的去stand a chance (of)有（做成某事）的希望remind ... of 使某人想起take pleasure in乐于做某事1. My familygot by on my father's unemployment benefit after he lost his job.2. Many subway riders read books or listen to music in order to make the mostof their time on the way to work.3. In order to make sure he would be able to attend the meeting, I called him uptwo weeksin advance.5. In order to reap the benefits of the physical exercise, you have to exerciseregularly, and for at least half an hour each time.6. They all tried to talk all at once , but I couldn't hear anything they said.7. Yellow flowers in the field always remindmeof my childhood in thecountryside.8. We have been practicing for so long and so hard that our team should stand a chance ofwinning the game.9. Research on genes will open the door to exciting new medical treatments.10. Every one of you has made a contribution and I take pleasure in acknowledging what each of you has done to make this academic convention such asuccess.2 / 194.翻译苏格拉底是古希腊哲学家，被誉为现代西方哲学的奠基人。
Unit 1 信息空间:出入随愿1 美国人的内心深处具有一种酷爱探索新领域的气质。
我们渴求宽敞的场地,我们喜欢探索,喜欢制定规章制度,却不愿去遵守。
在当今时代,却很难找到一块空间,可以供你任意驰骋,又不必担心影响你的邻居。
2 确实有这样的空间,就是信息空间。
这里原本是计算机迷的游戏天地,但如今只要想像得到的各类人群应有尽有,包括少年儿童、轻佻单身汉、美籍匈牙利人、会计等。
问题是他们都能和睦相处吗?人们是否会因为害怕孩子们躲在卧室里看网上的淫秽图片而将它封杀?3 首先要解决的问题是,什么是信息空间。
我们可以抛开高速公路、前沿新领域等比喻,把信息空间看作一个巨大的房地产。
请记住,庄园是人们智慧的结晶,是合法的、人工营造的氛围,它建立在土地之上。
在房地产业中,公园和商业中心、红灯区与学校、教堂、政府机构与杂货店都能区分开来。
4 你可以用同样的方法把信息空间想像为一个巨大的、无边无际的虚拟房地产业。
其中有些房产为私人拥有并已租出,有些是公共场所;有的场所适合儿童出人,而有些地方人们最好避开。
遗憾的是,正是这些应该避开的地方使得人们心向神往。
这些地方教唆你如何制造炸弹、为你提供淫秽材料、告诉你如何窃取信用卡。
所有这些使信息空间听起来像是一个十分肮脏的地方。
正直的公民纷纷作出这样的结论:最好对它严加管理。
5 但是,在利用规章制度来反击下流之举之前,关键是从根本上理解信息空间的性质。
恶棍并不能在信息空间抢走毫无提防之心的儿童;信息空间也不像一台巨大的电视机,向不情愿的观众播放令人作呕的节目。
在信息空间这个房地产业中,用户对他们所去之处、所见所闻、所做所为都要作出选择,一切都出于自愿。
换句话说,信息空间是个出入自便的地方,实际上,信息空间里有很多可去之处。
人们不能盲目上网,必须带着具体的目标上网。
这意味着人们可以选择去哪个网址、看什么内容。
不错,规章制度应该在群体内得以实施,但这些规章制度必须由信息空间内各个群体自己来制定,而不是由法庭或华盛顿的政客们来制定。
by СÐÜLearning a foreign language was one of the most difficult yet most rewarding experiences of my life.Although at times learning a language was frustrating, it was well worth the effort.My experience with learning a foreign language began in junior middle school, when I took my first English class.I had a kind and patient teacher who often praised all of the students. Because of this positive method, I eagerly answered all the questions I could, never worrying much about making mistakes.I was at the top of my class for two years.When I went to senior middle school, I was eager to continue studying English; however, my experience in senior middle school was very different from before.While my former teacher had been patient with all of the students, my new teacher quickly punished those who gave incorrect answers. Whenever we answered incorrectly, she pointed a long stick at us and, shaking it up and down, shouted, "No! No! No!"It didn't take me long to lose my eagerness to answer questions. Not only did I lose my joy in answering questions, but I also lost my desire to say anything at all in English.However, that state didn't last long.When I went to college, I learned that all students were required to take an English course.Unlike my senior middle school teacher, my college English teachers were patient and kind, and none of them carried long, pointed sticks! The situation was far from perfect, though.As our classes were very large, I was only able to answer a couple of questions in each class period.Also, after a few weeks of classes, I noticed there were many students who spoke much better than I did.I began to feel intimidated.So, once again, although for different reasons, I was afraid to speak. It seemed my English was going to stay at the same level forever.That was the situation until a couple of years later when I was offered an opportunity to study English through an online course.The communication medium was a computer, a phone line, and a modem.I soon got access to the necessary equipment, learned how to use the technology from a friend and participated in the virtual classroom 5 to 7 days a week.Online learning is not easier than regular classroom study;it requires a lot of time, commitment and discipline to keep up with the flow of the course.I worked hard to meet the minimum standards set by the course and to complete assignments on time.I practiced all the time.I carried a little dictionary with me everywhere I went, as well asa notebook in which I listed any new words I heard.I made many, sometimes embarrassing, mistakes.Once in a while I cried out of frustration, and sometimes I felt like giving up.But I didn't feel intimidated by students who spoke faster than I did because I took all the time I needed to think out my ideas and wrote a reply before posting it on the screen.Then, one day I realized I could understand just about everything I came across, and most importantly, I could "say" anything I wanted to in English.Although I was still making many mistakes and was continually learning new ways to say things, I had finally reaped the benefits of all of my hard work.Learning a foreign language has been a most trying experience for me, but one that I wouldn't trade for anything.Not only did learning another language teach me the value of hard work, but it also gave me insights into another culture, and my mind was opened to new ways of seeing things.The most wonderful result of having learned a foreign language was that I could communicate with many more people than before.Talking with people is one of my favorite activities, so being able to speak a new language lets me meet new people, participate in conversations, and form new, unforgettable friendships.Now that I speak a foreign language, instead of staring into space when English is being spoken,I can participate and make friends.I am able to reach out to others and bridge the gap between my language and culture and theirs.by СÐÜ。
Unit 11学习外语是我一生中最艰苦也是最有意义的经历之一。
虽然时常遭遇挫折，但却非常有价值。
2我学外语的经历始于初中的第一堂英语课。
老师很慈祥耐心，时常表扬学生。
由于这种积极的教学方法，我踊跃回答各种问题，从不怕答错。
两年中，我的成绩一直名列前茅。
3到了高中后，我渴望继续学习英语。
然而，高中时的经历与以前大不相同。
以前，老师对所有的学生都很耐心，而新老师则总是惩罚答错的学生。
每当有谁回答错了，她就会用长教鞭指着我们，上下挥舞大喊：“错！错！错！”没有多久，我便不再渴望回答问题了。
我不仅失去了回答问题的乐趣，而且根本就不想再用英语说半个字。
4好在这种情况没持续多久。
到了大学，我了解到所有学生必须上英语课。
与高中老师不。
大学英语老师非常耐心和蔼，而且从来不带教鞭！不过情况却远不尽如人意。
由于班大，每堂课能轮到我回答的问题寥寥无几。
上了几周课后，我还发现许多同学的英语说得比我要好得多。
我开始产生一种畏惧感。
虽然原因与高中时不同，但我却又一次不敢开口了。
看来我的英语水平要永远停步不前了。
5直到几年后我有机会参加远程英语课程，情况才有所改善。
这种课程的媒介是一台电脑、一条电话线和一个调制解调器。
我很快配齐了必要的设备并跟一个朋友学会了电脑操作技术，于是我每周用5到7天在网上的虚拟课堂里学习英语。
6网上学习并不比普通的课堂学习容易。
它需要花许多的时间，需要学习者专心自律，以跟上课程进度。
我尽力达到课程的最低要求，并按时完成作业。
7我随时随地都在学习。
不管去哪里，我都随身携带一本袖珍字典和笔记本，笔记本上记着我遇到的生词。
我学习中出过许多错，有时是令人尴尬的错误。
有时我会因挫折而哭泣，有时甚至想放弃。
但我从未因别的同学英语说得比我快而感到畏惧，因为在电脑屏幕上作出回答之前，我可以根据自己的需要花时间去琢磨自己的想法。
突然有一天我发现自己什么都懂了，更重要的是，我说起英语来灵活自如。
尽管我还是常常出错，还有很多东西要学，但我已尝到了刻苦学习的甜头。
1.More than 3,000 cars were recalled yesterday because of a brakeproblem.(3000多辆汽车因刹车问题昨日被召回。
)2. He came to the meeting despite his serious illness.（他尽管病得很重，但还是来参加会议了。
）3. See to it that the same mistake won't happen again.（要确保同样的错误今后不再发生。
）4. Now that they’ve got to know more about each other, they get along better.（现在他们之间的了解多了一些，相处得就好些了。
）5. Then I found myself surrounded by five or six boys.（此时我发现自己被五六个男孩围住了。
）6. I send you my best wishes on this happy occasion.（在此幸福的时刻，我向你致以最美好的祝愿。
）1.I went to the dentist yesterday to have a bad / decayed tooth pulledout. （昨天我去牙科医生那儿把我的一刻蛀牙拔掉了。
）2.Salary varies significantly / greatly / tremendously, depending on theemployees’ educational backgrounds and work experience.（由于教育背景和工作经验不同，员工的薪水也大不相同。
）3.The use of information technology could lead to major progress fordeveloping countries.（信息技术的使用可以给发展中国家带来巨大的进步。
Unit 1一、英译中1.Finally,with with my mother red in the face and short of breath,we find Room 8,I unlock the door,and we all walk in.等我们终于找到8号房间的时候，妈妈已经涨红了脸，累的上气不接下气。
我打开门锁，我们都走了进去。
2.She impresses me,and I feel so ignorant that I shouldn’t even breathe the same air as her.她给我留下了深刻的印象，我觉得自己太无知了，甚至不配跟她呼吸同样的空气。
3.I don’t know why I have to be introduced to literature but the woman in the admissions office says it’s a requirement even though I’ve read Dostoyevsky and Melville and that’s admirable for someone without a high school education.我不知道为什么我非得了解文学。
可是招生办公室的那位女士说，虽然我读过陀思妥耶夫斯基和梅尔维尔的小说，虽然一个没上过高中的人能读过这些书的确令人敬佩，但这门课是必修课。
4.I’m in heaven and the first thing to do is buy the required textbooks, cover them with the purple and white NYU book jackets so that people in the subway will look at me admiringly.我乐得飘飘然了，第一件事就是去买所需要的课本，然后用纽约大学紫白相间的护封把它们套起来，这样地铁里的乘客就会向我投来艳羡的目光了。
Nuit1学外语学习外语是我一生中最艰苦也是最有意义的经历。
虽然时常遭遇挫折，但却非常有价值。
我学外语的经历始于初中的第一堂英语课。
老师很慈祥耐心，时常表扬学生。
由于这种积极的教学方法，我踊跃回答各种问题，从不怕答错。
两年中，我的成绩一直名列前茅。
到了高中后，我渴望继续学习英语，然而高中时的经历与以前大不相同。
以前老师对所有的学生都很耐心，而新老师则总是惩罚答错的学生。
每当有谁回答错了，她会用长教鞭指着我们，上下挥舞着，大喊道：“错！错！错！” 没有多久，我便不再渴望回答问题了。
我不仅失去了回答问题的乐趣，而且根本就不想再用英语说半个字。
然而这种情况没持续多久。
到了大学，我了解到所有学生必须上英语课。
与高中老师不同，大学英语老师非常耐心和蔼，他们没有哪个带教鞭！不过情况却远不尽人意。
由于班大，每堂课能轮到我回答的问题寥寥无几。
上了几周课后，我还发现，许多同学的英语说得比我要好得多。
我开始产生一种畏惧感。
虽然情况与高中时不同，但我却又一次不敢开口了。
看来我的英语水平要永远停步不前了。
几年后我有机会参加了远程英语教学课程，情况才有所改善。
它需要一台电脑、电话线和调制解调器。
我很快配齐了必要的设备并跟一个朋友学会了电脑操作技术，于是我每周用５到７天在网上的虚拟课堂里学习英语。
网上学习并不比普通的课堂学习容易。
它需要花更多的时间，需要学习者专一、自制，以跟上课程进度。
我尽力达到课程的最低限度的要求，并按时完成作业。
我随时随地都在学习。
不管去哪里，我都随身携带一本袖珍字典和笔记本，笔记本上记着我听到的生词。
我学习中出过许多错，有时是令人尴尬的错误。
有时我会因挫折而哭泣，有时我想放弃。
但我从未因别的同学英语说得比我快而感到畏惧，因为在屏幕上作出回答之前，我可以根据自己的需要花时间去琢磨自己的想法。
后来有一天我意识到我能够理解碰到的各种问题，更重要的是，我能用英语表达我想说的东西。
尽管我还是常常出错，仍处于继续学习阶段，但我已尝到刻苦学习的甜头。
Unit1A学习外语是我一生中最艰苦也是最有意义的经历之一。
虽然时常遭遇挫折，但却非常有价值。
我学外语的经历始于初中的第一堂英语课。
老师很慈祥耐心，时常表扬学生。
由于这种积极的教学方法，我踊跃回答各种问题，从不怕答错。
两年中，我的成绩一直名列前茅。
到了高中后，我渴望继续学习英语。
然而，高中时的经历与以前大不相同。
以前，老师对所有的学生都很耐心，而新老师则总是惩罚答错的学生。
每当有谁回答错了，她就会用长教鞭指着我们，上下挥舞大喊：“错！错！错！”没有多久，我便不再渴望回答问题了。
我不仅失去了回答问题的乐趣，而且根本就不想再用英语说半个字。
好在这种情况没持续多久。
到了大学，我了解到所有学生必须上英语课。
与高中老师不同，大学英语老师非常耐心和蔼，而且从来不带教鞭！不过情况却远不尽如人意。
由于班大，每堂课能轮到我回答的问题寥寥无几。
上了几周课后，我还发现许多同学的英语说得比我要好得多。
我开始产生一种畏惧感。
虽然原因与高中时不同，但我却又一次不敢开口了。
看来我的英语水平要永远停步不前了。
直到几年后我有机会参加远程英语课程，情况才有所改善。
这种课程的媒介是一台电脑、一条电话线和一个调制解调器。
我很快配齐了必要的设备并跟一个朋友学会了电脑操作技术，于是我每周用5到7天在网上的虚拟课堂里学习英语。
网上学习并不比普通的课堂学习容易。
它需要花许多的时间，需要学习者专心自律，以跟上课程进度。
我尽力达到课程的最低要求，并按时完成作业。
我随时随地都在学习。
不管去哪里，我都随身携带一本袖珍字典和笔记本，笔记本上记着我遇到的生词。
我学习中出过许多错，有时是令人尴尬的错误。
有时我会因挫折而哭泣，有时甚至想放弃。
但我从未因别的同学英语说得比我快而感到畏惧，因为在电脑屏幕上作出回答之前，我可以根据自己的需要花时间去琢磨自己的想法。
突然有一天我发现自己什么都懂了，更重要的是，我说起英语来灵活自如。
尽管我还是常常出错，还有很多东西要学，但我已尝到了刻苦学习的甜头。
新视野大学英语1读写教程课文新视野大学英语1读写教程课文篇一：新视野大学英语1读写教程课文新视野大学英语1读写教程课文unit 10 Being Honest and OpenSection APre-reading ActivitiesFirst ListeningHaving ideas about a story before you read it is an important reading skill. Please listen to a very short piece of recording.Second ListeningNow listen to the recording for the second time and try to the best of your ability to answer the following questions.1. What must you have in order to be honest?2. What are the three principles that constitute honesty?3. What two qualities help make relationships stronger?Being Honest and OpenMy grandparents believed that you were either honest or you were not. There was no middle point. They had a simple saying hanging on their living-room wall: "Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show." They didn't have to talk about it; they demonstrated this truth by their life style. They understood instinctively that integrity involves having a personal standard of morality and boundaries that does not sell out to convenience and that is not relative to the situation at hand. Integrity is an inner compass for judging your behavior.Unfortunately, integrity is in short supply today —and getting scarcer. But it is the real bottom line in every area of society and a discipline we must demandof ourselves. A good test for this value is to apply what I call the "Integrity Triangle", which consists of three key principles: Stand firmly for your convictions when confronted with personal pressure. There's a story told about a surgical nurse's assistance during her first day on the medical team at a well-known hospital. She was responsible for ensuring that all surgical instruments and materials were accounted for during an operation. The nurse said to the surgeon, "You've only removed 11 sponges, and we used 12. We need to find the last one.""I removed them all," the surgeon assured her. "We'll close now.""You can’t do that, sir," protested the nurse. "Think of the patient."Smiling, the surgeon lifted his foot and showed the nurse the twelfth sponge. "You'll do just fine in this or any other hospital," he assured her.When you know you're right, you can't concede.Always give others credit that is rightfully theirs. Don’t be afraid of those who might have a better idea or who might even be more intelligent than you are. David Ogilvy, founder of the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather, clarified this point to his newly appointed office heads by sending each of them a Russian nesting doll with five progressively smaller figures inside.His message was contained in the smallest doll: "If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants." And that is precisely what O & M became — one of the largest and most respected advertising organizations in the world.Be honest and open about who you really are. People wholack genuine core values rely on external factors — their looks or status — in order to feel good aboutthemselves. Inevitably they will do everything they can to preserve this false mask, but they will do very little to enhance their inner value and personal growth. So be yourself. Don't engage in a personal cover-up of areas that are unpleasing in your life. "Tough times never last but tough people do," as Robert Schuller says. In other words, face reality and be mature in your respo nses to life’s challenges. Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for eiching your relationships with others. Integrity means you do what you do because it's right and not just fashionable or politically correct. A life of principle, of not yielding to the tempting attractions of an easy morality, will always win the day. It will take you forward into the twenty-first century without having to check your tracks in a rear-view mirror. My grandparents taught me that.篇二：当代研究生英语读写教程课文中英对照word版Unit 1：cyberspace ：if you don't love it ,leave it信息空间：出入随愿something in the American psyche loves new frontiers. We hanker after wide-open spaces ;we like to explore ;we like to make rules but refuse to follow them .But in this age it's hard to find a place where you can go and be yourself without worrying about he neighbours . 美国人的内心深处具有一种酷爱探索新领域的气质。
一 In America, the land of equal opportunity, Asians seem better able than most other people groups to succeed, especially in the field of education. It is becoming more and more common for the top students in American schools and colleges to be the ones with the Asian faces. In one of the U.S. college entrance exams, the SAT, Asian-Americans had an average score of 1091, while white students had an average of 1068, Hispanics 922, and blacks 864. It isn’t just being Asian, however, that guarantees such amazing test scores. Filipino-Americans, for example, are not usually top academic achievers, although they do very well for themselves overall. The Asians who are usually at the head of the class are mostly those from Asian cultures most strongly influenced by Confucian ideas, such as China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. So why do these Asians usually rise to the top of the academic world? Because of their hard-working immigrant background? That might seem to be the answer, but many top students are Asians no longer from immigrant families, but from families which have lived in the U.S. for three or four generations. Another theory that some scientists have suggested is that Asians from Confucian cultures generally have a higher IQ because of having a culture with longer history of jobs that depended on brains rather than just physical strength. This theory, though interesting, is not supported by the facts, as these Asians are not as a rule academically successful in other countries around the world. The general conclusion of most is that Asians’ academic success is, in large part, due to the strong influence of the Confucian ideas of filial piety, respect for education, and hard work. These Confucian ideas together with the Western system of higher education have made the perfect environmentfor success for young Asian students. 西方大学里的亚裔学生 在美国这个人人机会均等的国度，亚洲人似乎比大多数其他民族更有可能获得成功，尤其在教育领域。美国的学校和大学里优等生都是亚洲人的脸孔，这种现象已经越来越常见了。美国大学入学考试之一的SAT考试中，亚裔学生的平均分是1091，而白人学生平均分为1068，美籍西班牙学生922，黑人学生864。 然而，仅仅拥有亚洲人的身份并不足以保证取得如此高分。比如说，菲律宾裔美国人通常并不是学习成绩最好的，虽然他们自身很努力。通常位于班级前列的亚洲人大多数来自深受儒家思想影响的国家，比如中国、韩国、日本和越南。 那么为什么这些亚洲人常常能跻身于学术界的顶端呢？因为他们勤劳的移民背景吗？这似乎是答案所在，但许多优等生不再是来自移民家庭，而是来自于在美国生活了三代或四代的亚洲家庭。科学家的另一种理论将儒家文化的亚洲人的高智商归功于他们的文化传统，因为他们从事脑力劳动的时间比单纯体力劳动的历史更悠久。 这种理论虽然有趣，但还没有事实支持，因为这些亚洲人的学业在世界上其他国家并不总是很成功。 大多数人总结认为，亚洲人学业上的成功在很大程度上是由于受到儒家思想的影响，比如说对父母的孝顺，对教育的尊重以及辛勤劳动。这些儒家思想和西方高等教育体制一道为年轻的亚洲学生创造了完美的获取成功的环境。
Asian a. 亚洲的，亚洲人的 n. 亚洲 western a. 西方的，西部的 equal a. 相等的，平等的，胜任的 opportunity n. 机会，时机 succeed v. 1. (～ in) 取得成功 2. 继任，继承 successful a. 成功的 education n. 教育，培养 entrance n. 1. 入学，进入 2. 入口，门口 average a. 平均的 n. 平均，平均数 score n. 得分，分数 v. 得（分），记（分） ★guarantee v. 保证，承诺 amazing a. 令人惊讶的 △academic a. 学术的，理论的 △ academically ad. 学术上，理论上 achiever n. 获得者 △overall ad. 大致上，整体上 a. 所有的，整体的 culture n. 1. 文化，文明 2. 修养，教养 influence v. 影响，感化 n. 1. 影响 2. 感化力 Confucian a. 孔子的, 儒家的 n. 孔门弟子, 儒家 ★immigrant n. (外来)移民，外侨 background n. 背景 generation n. 1. 一代人(或产品) 2. 产生，发展 theory n. 1. 理论，原理 2. 学说 scientist n. 科学家 suggest v. 1.提出建议 2.暗示，使想起，意思是 generally ad. 一般地，通常，大体上 general a. 1. 总的，普遍的 2. 一般的，普通的 3. 通用的 depend v. 依靠, 依赖 physical a. 1. 身体的，肉体的 2. 物理(学)的 strength n. 力量，力气，实力 ★conclusion n. 1. 结论，推论 2. 结束，终结 ★due a. 1. 由于，因为 2. 应得的 3. 应付的，到期的 △filial a. 孝顺的，子女应该做的 △piety n. 1. 孝顺，孝敬 2. 虔诚 system n. 1. 制度，体制 2. 系统， 体系 environment n. 环境，周边状况
entrance exam 入学考试 rather than 而不是 as a rule 通常，照例 in large part 在很大程度上 due to 由于，因为 together with 和，加之 二 Walt Disney. Bill Gates. Albert Einstein. Benjamin Franklin. What do these people all have in common? They are examples of common people who became successful. Success isn’t automatic. Successful people plan for success. They set goals by asking themselves three basic questions. The first question to ask is, “What is a suitable goal for me?” Not everyone’s ability is the same, so the goal should fit the person. The goal should also be reasonable. That means that the goal should not be too easy, but also should not be too difficult to reach. An easy goal may result in boredom, but a difficult goal may result in failure. The best goals are challenging but not discouraging. The second important question is, “How long will it take to reach the goal?” French philosopher and writer Baron de Montesquieu once said, “The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.” There is wisdom in these words. Some people fail because of their false expectations. They are disappointed because they think they can reach their goals overnight. As the old expression goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day!” On the other hand, a person who does not plan will not have the joy of seeing the goal accomplished. If there is a plan for when this goal can be reached, the person will be encouraged because they see the end in sight.
