高三英语二轮复习学案-名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选：A Lesson in Failure.docxVIP

高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 A Lesson in Failure（答案在最后） 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选A Lesson in Failure 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 挫折与成长 四星 1168 【文章梗概】儿子抱怨学术交流时被合作同学孤立，被导师否定，正给人陷入了自我怀疑和自我否定的处境。母亲以他曾经所取得的成绩肯定儿子的学术能力，鼓励他遇到困难不退缩，在我的鼓励下，孩子经历重大挫折后仍然坚持试验，最终找到失败原因并修正实验，从而获得了成功。 The text said I think I made a mistake in coming here. My twenty-year-old son Aaron is a biology/pre-med major at Morehouse College in Atlanta and at the time of the text was a rising junior. But the “here” referenced in his text wasn’t Morehouse; it was Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He was there for a ten-week summer internship. Why? What’s wrong? I texted back. I’m frustrated… I’m wasting my time here. I wrote back. Let’s talk about it. But he responded, It’s gonna have to wait till later. I remember how helpless I felt as I ended the exchange. Okay. Keep the faith, son. Things happen for a reason. From previous conversations, I fully understood his angst. Aaron’s experiments exploring the connection between fructose and hypertension weren’t going well. He couldn’t figure out what he was doing wrong. His repeated requests for in-house assistance left him feeling incompetent and further confused. His feelings of isolation and his inability to bond with the other research students compounded the already precarious state of his emotions. Plus, I suspected a recent encounter at a science conference had chipped away at my son’s self-esteem. A couple of attendees implied that students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCSs), like my son, were not as intellectually gifted as those who attended other institutions of higher learning. The emotion I heard in Aaron’s voice every time he mentioned the incident suggested the instigators had succeeded in making him doubt his ability and his academic choices. When my son finally called, I did my best to encourage and reassure him. I reminded him of his proven capabilities and past achievements. He’d scored in the 95th perce