Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten,and ,as is conventional, I wished her every success ,But part of me didn’t.
I actually wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for our learning process, Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do , First –time success is usually a fluke （侥幸）,First-time failure ,by contrast,is expected ;it is the natural order of things Failure is how we learn.
In Africa they describe a good cook as “she who has broken many bots”,If you’ve spent enough time in the kitchen to break a lot of pots ,probably you know a lot about cooking ,I once had dinner with a group of cooks and they spent a lot of time comparing knife wounds and burn scars ,They Knew how much their failures gave them.
I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column, Each week I am aware that one column I write lill be my sores , I don’t set out to write it ; I try my best every day. I have learned to cherish that column ,A good column usually means that I am discussing a familiar topic, writing in a style I am used to or saying the same things as someons else but in fancy way.
Ny younger daughter is a tze artist（杂技荡秋千演员），She spent three years putting together a show and she did it successfully for years ,There was no reason for her to change it-but she did anyway, She said she was no longer learning anything new and she was boued; and if she was bored ,there was no point in subjecting her body to all that stress
My granddaughter is a perfectionist She will feel her failures ,and I will want to comfort her, But I sill also ,I hope ,remind her of what she learned ,and how she can do better next time ,I hope I can tell her ,though ,that it’s not the end of the world ,Indeed, with juck ,it is the beginning.
小题1:Why did the author want his granddaughter to fail?A．Success is boring though beneficialB．She would learn more from failureC．It is impossible to do everything successfullyD．He wanted her to be strong enough to face hardships小题2:What’s the author’s attitude toward his daughter changing her show/A．NegativeB．WorriedC．PositiveD．Excited小题3:The author develops the article mainly byA．giving examplesB．following the time orderC．comparing different opinionsD．yxing cause and effect小题4:The writer talks about his own experience to show thatA．we cannot depend on luck to live a good lifeB．we shoule try every possible way to avoid failureC．past failures pred him from taking risks in writingD．the thought of failure will make you work even harder小题5:Which of the following can be the best title of the text?A．Learn from failureB．How to be a good cookC．My daughter and granddaughterD．A good column makes a good writer