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培养一种积极的心态 　　阅读下面的文章，并按要求完成后面的阅读理解任务。 　　You must have a positive mental attitude to make life pay off on your own terms. Nothing great has ever been achieved without PMA 　　Recognize that your mental attitude is the only thing over which you―and only you―have complete control. Exercise that control， and direct it by using PMA. 　　Learn to close the door of your mind on all failures from your past. Clear your mind of any influence which does not support a positive mental attitude. 　　Find out what you want most in life， and go after it. Do it right now by helping others to acquire similar benefits. This way you put the principle of going the extra mile into action. 　　Determine what kind of resources you need set up a plan for acquiring them based on the idea of not too much， not too little. Don’t think small， but remember， greed more than anything else has destroyed ambitious people. 　　（A）①One good deed a day will keep old man gloom away.②You can do this with a phone call， a postcard， or a simple act of kindness. ③Form the habits of saying or doing something every day which will make someone else feel better.④Give someone a good inspirational book， for instance， and you give that person something that will work wonders in his or her life. 　　Make yourself understand that what whips you isn’t defeat， but your mental attitude toward it. Train yourself to look for the seed of equivalent benefit in every disappointment you face. 　　Ascertain what you like best to do， and do it as a labor of love with your heart and soul. Perhaps it will simple be a hobby. That’s fine. Just remember that an idle mind quickly becomes a negative mind； it’s called brooding. 　　Understand that often when you have searched in vain for a solution to a problem， you can find it by helping someone else solve his or her problem. By the time you have solved the other person’s problem， you will have the insight to solve your own. 　　Study Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Essay on Compensation” once a week u