If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know have achieved because the person was able to analyze defeat and actually profit by it in his next undertaking. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are doomed (注定) indeed to failure. For it isn’t defeat that makes you fail: it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.

  Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are routine incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you face it without humiliation, analyze（分析） it and leave why you have failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to cure its own cause. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can arouse within us such a compelling desire to succeed. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will hold more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended. It is the same reaction as should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you exploit the power which defeats give, you can accomplish with it far more than you are capable of.

 

60. The person who is able to analyze his defeat is likely ___ .

A. to be more capable of doing things

B. to be a successor

C. to be ashamed of his defeat

D. to know himself better

61. Defeat is valuable because ___ .

A. it makes you a better thinker

B. it forces you to face it without humiliation

C. it provides the guide to achievement.

D. It enables you to analyze events successfully

62. It is implied in the passage that ___ .

A. the author thinks there is only one factor which makes for success in living

B. defeat necessarily leads to success

C. people often confuse defeat with failure

D. we must face defeat courageously

63. What is the author’s attitude towards defeat?

A. One of being ashamed.

B. One of being interested.

C. One of being discouraged.

D. One of being hopeful.

64. The word “humiliation” （in Para. 2） could best be replaced by which of the following?

A. being encouraged.                                    B. being confused

C. being ashamed                                         D. being defeated

60. A第一段第二句可知，能夠分析自己受挫原因的人在以后的工作中會受益于它。選項A意為“更有能力處理好事情”，較接近此意。而選項B、D在原文中并未提及，C與原意相悖。

61. C答案在第一段最后一句：不是受挫使你失敗，是你自己沒有看到受挫帶來的指導及鼓勵作用才使你失敗。選項A、B、D都是讀者可能分析出來的受挫原因，但并非文中提到的原因，而C意為“受挫能指導人們成功”，正符合上下文之意。

62. D本題為推斷題。選項意為“作者認為只有一個因素有助于成功”。而原文并非特指哪一個。選項B原文中并無此意且有常識也可判斷其出錯。C項也錯，因文中并未說他們常把二者搞混，只是給出了一個假設條件“如果混淆了受挫和失敗”，因此，只有D才符合全文之義。

63. D本題屬于有關主旨的題目。問的是作者對待受挫的態(tài)度。從第一段最后一句及第二段第一句可排除A、C兩項，而B項中的“interested”一詞并未說明作者的確切態(tài)度，而且從文中多次用的 “profit by defeat”上可知作者對受挫的態(tài)度是肯定的，因此D為正確的答案。

64. C本題屬于推測詞義題。第二段第一句說“失敗并不值得羞愧，是成功者遇到的常事”，下文說“受挫是個不可挽回的損失，除非你不……”這屬于前后呼應，由此可推斷出humiliation與being ashamed意義應大致相同，故選C。

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