17.There is no doubt that failure is still a common part of everyone's life although we are all encouraged to work hard and(1)
(成功)in life.Perhaps you are afraid of failure,or even think it's shameful to fail.But once you have visited the Museum of Failure in Shanghai,you might change your(2)
(觀點). Samuel West,a Swedish psychologist,(3)
(成立)the museum.The museum displays more than 100 failed products,(4)
(其中)which some were made by the most famous and successful companies in the world. For example,in 1993,Apple released the Newton Message Pad which could be used to take electronic notes by hand.But it was(5)
(不能做某事的)to recognize handwriting very well.Apple stopped making it in 1997.Another(6)
(發明)was coffee-flavored soda from Coca-Cola Company,which was produced to satisfy people's growing love for coffee,but it turned out to be against their(7)
(意愿)and was taken off the market two years later. "In this way,I've just(8)
(設法完成)to help people understand the fact.A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."West said. This idea has been welcomed by many companies,(9)
(包括)some famous great companies in Silicon Valley.These big companies encourage failure just because they have(10)
(意識到)that nothing can be achieved without going through failure.
18."燦爛星空,誰是真的英雄?"有人說英雄是那些頂天立地,為國家民族奉獻生命的人,也有人說英雄是那些默默無聞,為身邊的人無私奉獻的人。 請根據以下要點提示,以"The Hero in My Heart"為題寫一篇不少于 110 詞的短文,介紹你心目中的英雄。短文首句已給出,不計入總詞數。 要點提示: 1)Who is the hero in your heart? 2)What is he/she like? 3)Why do you think he/she is a hero?
Everyone has his own hero whom he admires and respects for different reasons.The hero in my heart is______.