2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：Success Is a Choice

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　　1.According to the passage, if we expect that life won't be perfect, what
could we avoid? The impulse to...
        　　2.According to the speaker, when does adversity happen? It happens...
        　　3.Why does the speaker mention Abraham Lincoln? To prove that one can
succeed...
        　　All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable
challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday. If we expect that life won’t be
perfect, we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong
enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will
encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back. Whether
it’s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some
other traumatic events in your life, these major setbacks leave you doubting
yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again. Adversity
happens to all of us, and it happens all the time. Some form of major adversity
is either going to be there or it’s lying in wait just around the corner. To
ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self delusion. But you must
recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved
greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their
spirit and left them lying in the dust. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called
on to be the voice of God. Abraham Lincoln overcame all difficulties during the
Civil War to become our arguable greatest president ever. Helen Keller made an
impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age.
Franklin Roosevelt had polio. There are endless examples. These were people who
not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about
overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.