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1、听写Think Positive and Feel Positive Are you confident or insecure in a difficult situation? Do you react positively or negatively? The answer may depend in part on whom youre around. A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases. For example, the researchers studied 103 college
2、 roommates. They measured each roommates tendency towards negative thinking. It was found that thinking patterns can be contagious. Students with a negative-thinking roommate became more depressed themselves. And students with more positive-thinking roommates were more likely to become more positive
3、 as well.TalkWhat Is Grit?Good afternoon, everyone. （1）Today, I would like to talk about my research project concerning the key to success. I would like to start my topic with my own story. When I was 27 years old, I left for a demanding job: teaching seventh graders math in the New York City public
4、 schools. And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests. I gave out homework assignments. When the work came back, I calculated grades. What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students. Some of my strongest performers did not have super IQ scores. Some of
5、 my smartest kids werent doing so well.Then I felt very interested in knowing the reason why the students math performance is not that closely related to their IQ scores. （2）I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of challenging settings, and in every study my question was, who is successful
6、 here and why.My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried to predict which students would stay in military training and which would drop out. (3)We went to the National Spelling Contest and tried to predict which children would advance furthest in competition. We worked with
7、 private companies, asking, which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs? And whos going to earn the most money.We went to many places, and finally one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasnt social intelligence. It wasnt good looks, physical health, and
8、it wasnt IQ. It was grit.What is grit?(4)Well, grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. (5)Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make future a reality.(6) Grit is living your life
9、 like its a marathon, not a sprint.A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools. I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. (7)It turned out that grittier kids were significantly m
10、ore likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, test scores and so on. To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, How do I b
11、uild grit in kids? How do I keep them motivated for the long run? Our data shows very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitment. (8)In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated to measures of talent. So far, the best idea Ive heard about
12、 building grit in kids is something called growth mindset. (9)Growth mindset is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort.(10) Kids with grit are much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they dont believe that failure is a permanent condition
13、. So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. But we need more. And thats where Im going to end my talk, because thats where we are. Thats the work that stands before us. We have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned. As a conclusion, we need to be gri
14、tty about getting our kids grittier.Next time, I would like to share with you my experience in building up students grit.CONVERSATION ONEW:Hello, This is Kate Smith, Im calling from ABC Company.M:Oh, hello, Kate. Great to hear from you.W:Youve already been told that youve been shortlisted for interv
15、iew.M:Oh, yes.W:Well, were very excited about meeting you. （1）OK, I just want to talk you through the procedure for the day. Someone will meet you when you arrive, and then bring you up to meet myself and Arthur Miller, the CEO.M:OK, sounds good. So will you be the only members of the interview pane
16、l there then?W:Yes, itll be just me and Arthur who will talk to you. The interview will be in three parts-first of all well ask you some general questions about yourself and your educational and professional background, and then well move on to specifics.M:Oh, um, specifics? Well er, what kind of questions will you be asking?W:Well, itll be very similar to the personal statemen
