Question 1: Listen and fill in the blanks with no more than 3 words

Professor: OK. So, last week we looked at various --------------------- of success, and common
ways people measure success – through status, fame, money, -----------------------, and so on.
Now this week I want to expand on this and ask you to question the importance of success,
and what it really --------------- to be successful.

we learn from an early age that success is good ... something we should try to achieve
through a combination of hard work and ---------------. You all know the expression “If at
first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Well, some research-------------------- that trying really
hard to achieve something might actually be the wrong thing to do. It all depends
on----------------- your goal is achievable. To give you an example, ------------------- a short,
thirty-year-old man who smokes forty--------------------- a day. Should he give up his job to
take up basketball in the hope of becoming a major basketball star? I don’t think so! So, the
first point I’d like to make is that you need to be ------------------- about what it is you want to
achieve. Chasing an impossible dream, one that you can never reach, is a --------------- waste
of time and energy. Make sure the success you’re aiming for is achievable. If it isn’t, then
read just your goals to something more reasonable, something that you can achieve.

Question 2: Listen and fill in the blanks with no more than 3 words

I think there are two points I’d like to ------------------ here. The first is that we shouldn’t be
afraid of failure, because we can learn from it. Being successful is great, but it doesn’t
always teach you a lot. You can learn a lot more from your failures than you can from your
------------------- .Take Michael Jordan, for example. He learned from his mistakes. He
------------------- what he was doing wrong, changed his game, and improved to become
------------------basketball player in the world! The same goes for Akio Morita, the founder of
Sony -------------------. The first product he made was a rice cooker that didn’t work; burned
the rice,--------------------- cooking it! He sold fewer than one hundred of them and lost a lot
of money. But he learned from the----------------------- , and of course today everyone knows
the name Sony!

The second point I want to make about failure is that you must not permit failure
to--------------- you. Failure is something to be encouraged by. Don’t give up too easily!
Remember John Grisham ... his first book, A Time to Kill, wasn’t a success when it was
published. Only -------------------- were printed, and he ended up buying a lot of them and
selling them himself! But he didn’t give up. He continued to develop his writing, and his next
novel, The firm, was a great success and became a Hollywood movie ----------------Tom
Cruise.

Question 2: Listen and fill in the blanks with no more than 3 words

I think there are two points I’d like to ------------------ here. The first is that we shouldn’t be
afraid of failure, because we can learn from it. Being successful is great, but it doesn’t
always teach you a lot. You can learn a lot more from your failures than you can from your
------------------- .Take Michael Jordan, for example. He learned from his mistakes. He
------------------- what he was doing wrong, changed his game, and improved to become
------------------basketball player in the world! The same goes for Akio Morita, the founder of
Sony -------------------. The first product he made was a rice cooker that didn’t work; burned
the rice,--------------------- cooking it! He sold fewer than one hundred of them and lost a lot
of money. But he learned from the----------------------- , and of course today everyone knows
the name Sony!

The second point I want to make about failure is that you must not permit failure to------------
you. Failure is something to be encouraged by. Don’t give up too easily! Remember John
Grisham ... his first book, A Time to Kill, wasn’t a success when it was published. Only
-------------------- were printed, and he ended up buying a lot of them and selling them
himself! But he didn’t give up. He continued to develop his writing, and his next novel, The
firm, was a great success and became a Hollywood movie ----------------Tom Cruise.

Question 1: Listen and fill in the blanks with no more than 3 words

Professor: OK. So, last week we looked at various --------------------- of success, and common
ways people measure success – through status, fame, money, -----------------------, and so on.
Now this week I want to expand on this and ask you to question the importance of success,
and what it really --------------- to be successful.

we learn from an early age that success is good ... something we should try to achieve
through a combination of hard work and ---------------. You all know the expression “If at
first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Well, some research-------------------- that trying really
hard to achieve something might actually be the wrong thing to do. It all depends
on----------------- your goal is achievable. To give you an example, ------------------- a short,
thirty-year-old man who smokes forty--------------------- a day. Should he give up his job to
take up basketball in the hope of becoming a major basketball star? I don’t think so! So, the
first point I’d like to make is that you need to be ------------------- about what it is you want to
achieve. Chasing an impossible dream, one that you can never reach, is a --------------- waste
of time and energy. Make sure the success you’re aiming for is achievable. If it isn’t, then
read just your goals to something more reasonable, something that you can achieve.