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新发展研究生英语综合教程(2);博学之，审问之，慎思之，明辨之，笃行之。 Learn extensively, inquire thoroughly, ponder prudently, discriminate clearly, and practice devotedly. ;Information related to the text;Language Points;3.An elderly uncle, having posed the usual question and exposed my lack of interest in the presidency, asked, “Well, what do you want to be when you grow up?” (Para.2): An elderly uncle found me uninterested in being president after asking the same question that was frequently asked by others. Then he asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. ;4.My uncle smiled, but my mother had seen the first distressing evidence of a bump budding on a log. “Have a little gumption, Russell,” she said. Her calling me Russell was a signal of unhappiness. When she approved of me I was always “Buddy.” (Para.4): After answering my uncle’s question, he smiled, but my mother sensed a symptom of the lack of ambition on me. So she told me to be ambitious. When she called me “Russell”, it indicated that she was unhappy. When she praised me, she usually called me “Buddy.”;5.When I turned eight years old she decided that the job of starting me on the road towards making something of my self could no longer be safely delayed. (Para.5): When I was eight years old, my mother realized it was high time for me to do some job, which was the preparation for my future success. She couldn’t allow me to lose the chance by living idly any more. Make something of oneself: be successful in one’s life Now that he is determined to make something of himself and he will certainly want to win as a fighter. ;6.When I burst in that afternoon she was in conference in the parlor with an executive of the Curtis Publishing Company. (Para.6): When I got back home that afternoon, my mother was in a conversaion with an executive of the Curtis Publishing Company. 7.“But have you got the grit, the character, the never-say-quit spirit it takes to succeed in business?” (Para.9):“If you want to be successful in business, you must have