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阅读下面的短文,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 Sometimes the targets we set 1. (us) are just too high. We thi...
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阅读下面的短文,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Sometimes the targets we set 1. (us) are just too high. We think that we will be better people in the future. Just as we are easily taken over by the planning fallacy (谬见), 2. (believe) that we can complete a large project for work in an afternoon, we think in the future we will be better-organized and more self-disciplined.
One of the most 3. (fame) examples of the planning fallacy is that of the Oxford English Dictionary. In 1860 plans were in place to complete it within three years. In 1879 there was a new deal to publish in within a decade, 4. after five years they only got so far 5. the word “ant”. It was finally completed in 1928, by 6. time it was considered out of date and revisions began at once.
The same thing happens when it comes to 7. (change) our lifestyles. We read about a new idea and that optimism fires up all over again. At the University of Toronto Janet Polivy has been studying what she calls “false hope syndrome”.
She found that people set themselves unrealistic targets which they undoubtedly failed to reach, leaving them feeling even 8. (bad) about themselves. Some of the students she studied 9.(try) and failed for 10 years to make the same change in their lives, but each year they 10.(convince) that this time it would work.
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