大学英语综合教程 第四册 Unit3A

[04:29.17]"What a fantastic example of a person who has never stopped learning.Incidentally,we won the third set 6-1.
[04:38.57]As we walked off the court,my 90-year-old partner chuckled and said,
[04:44.21]"I thought you'd like to know about my number-one randing in doubles in the United States in my age bracket,
[04:52.15]85 and up!"He wasn't thinking90;he wasn't even thinking85.He was thinking number one.
[05:02.13]You can do the same if you work on your weaknesses and develop your strengths.To be able to compete,
[05:10.07]you've got to keep learning all yourlife.
[05:13.55]3.Believe in yourself,even when on one else does.Do you remember the four-minute mile?
[05:21.72]Athletes had been trying to do it for hundreds of years and finally decided it was physically impossible for humans
[05:30.29]Our bone structure was all wrong,our lung power inadequate.
[05:35.54]Then one human proved the experts wrong.And,miracle of miracles,six weeks after Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile
[05:45.78]John Landy beat Bannister's time by nearly two full seconds.
[05:51.22]Since then,close to eight hundred runners have broken the four-minute mile!
[05:56.94]Several years ago my daughter Mimi and I took a crack at running the New York Marathon.At the gun,
[06:05.51]23,000runners started-and 21,244finished.First place went to a Kenyan who completed the race in two hours,
[06:17.37]11minutes and  one second.The 21,244 th runner to finish was a Vietnam veteran.He did it in three days,
[06:29.02]nine hours and 37minutes.With no legs,he covered26.2miles.After mydaughter and I
[06:39.26]passed him in the first few minutes,we easily found more courage to finish ouselves.
[06:46.00]Don't everlet anyone tell you that you can't accomplish your goals.Who says you're not tougher,
[06:53.58]harder working and more able than your competition?
[06:57.99]You see, a goal is a dream with a deadline:in writing,measurable,identifiable,attainable.
[07:06.82]4.Find a way to make a difference.In my opinion,the majority of New York cabdrivers are unfriendly,
[07:16.09]if not downright rude.Most of the cabs are filthy, and almost all of them sport an impenetrable,
[07:24.56]bulletproof partition.But recently I jumped into a cab at LaGuardia Airport and guess what?It was clean.
[07:34.88]There was beautiful music playing and no partition.
[07:39.74]"Park Lane Hotel,please,"I said to the driver.With a broad smile,he said, "Hi,my name is Wally,"
[07:48.52]and he handed me a mission statement.A mission statement!It said he would get me there safely,courteously and on time
[07:58.86]As we drove off,he held up a choice of newspapers and said, "Be my guest,"
[08:05.03]He told me to help myself to the fruit in the basket on the back seat.
[08:10.31]He held up a cellular phone and said, "It's a dollar a minute if you'd like to make a call."
[08:16.99]Shocked,I blurted, "How long have youbeen practicing this?"He answered, "Three of four years."
[08:25.48]"I know this is prying."I said, "but how much extra money do you earn in tips?
[08:32.38]"Between $12,000and$14,000a year!"he responded proudly.
[08:39.28]He doesn't know it,but he's my hero.He's livingproof that you canalways shift the odds in your favor.
[08:46.69]My mentor,Curt Carlson,is the wealthiest man in Minnesota owner of a hotel
[08:53.85]and travel company with sales in the neighborhood of$9billion.I had to get to a meeting in New York one day,
[09:03.46]and Curt generously offered me a ride in his jet.It happened to be a day.
[09:10.10]Minnesota was hit with one of the worst snow storms in years.
[09:14.71]Minneapolis-St.Paaul International Airport was closed for the first time in decades.
[09:22.16]Then,though the storm continued to pound us,the airport opened a runway for small craft only.
[09:29.94]As we were taxiing down it to take off,Curt turned to me and said gleefully, "Look,Harvey,no tracks in the snow!"
[09:39.48]Curt Carlson,70 years old at the time,rich beyond anyone's dreams,could still sparkle with excitement about being first
[09:49.64]From my standpoint,that's what it's all aboutPrepare to winNever stop learning.Believe in yourself,even when no one else does 
[10:00.30]Find a way to make a difference.Then go out and make your own tracks in the snow.