In the 1950s, a family that owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan kept a bull chained to an elm (榆树). The bull paced around the tree, dragging the heavy iron chain, led to a groove (槽) in the bark. The groove was deepened over the years. Though for whatever reason,
did not kill the tree.
After some years, the family took their bull away. They cut the chain, (leave) the link around the tree.
Then one year, agricultural catastrophe (strike) Michigan in
form of Dutch elm disease. All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm became infected
died. Everyone thought that the old elm would be the
. The farm owners considered
(go) the safe thing: pulling it out and chopping it up into firewood before it died.
(amazing), the tree did not die. It’s said that what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Or,
a plant pathologists (病理学家 ) put it , “Life breaks us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest at the broken places.”
If it (turn) cold again, they'll dive back down. But they come out again if it is warm last, how much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that it
(possible) can.
Set up your goals positively．
How you describe your goal makes a big difference．Focusing on whatyou want to“bring into your life —not what you want to avoid—wi11 make you more likely to (actual)pursue it.
Prepare for failure(in a good way)．
Moments of failure (be)unavoidable，but most of us abandon the goal entirely when slight failures and setbacks start piling up．At the moment when you fail，often the first instinct(本能)is to push the goal away. It's so
(comfort)to be in that condition of self-doubt or self-criticism and guilt．
For example，if you want to quit ______(smoke), ask why do you want to quit? Then, if you want to quit for your health ask why do you want good health? Then，if your answer is to be alive long enough
(meet)your grandchildren，ask why do you want to meet your grandchildren?
Therefore, as high school students of the Information Age, we need to learn to make use of this (value) tool to communicate and display ourselves. What’s more, opening and organizing micro blogs need various abilities such aswriting, designing, being skillful at computer and so on. Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful micro blog. As a result, we improve ourselves while
(organize) our micro blogs.
In fact, micro blog (oneself) is of little harm.
It is so dangerous that our guides will have guns (scare) the animals away if they come too near.