英语专四听力讲座原文和题目

1、最新 料推荐2016 tem 4 mini- lecture text ：what is grit?good afternoon, everyone. today, i would like to talk about my research projectconcerning the key to success. i would like to start my topic with my own story.when i was 27 years old, i left a very demanding job: teaching seventh gradersmath in the n

2、ew york city public schools. and like any teacher, i made quizzes andtests. i gave out homework assignments. when the work came back, i calculatedgrades. what struck me was that iq was not the only difference between my best andmy worst students. some of my strongest performers did not have super iq

3、 scores.some of my smartest kids werent doing so well. then i felt very interested inknowing the reason why the students math performance is not that closely related totheir iq scores. 2i started studying kids and adults in all kinds of challengingsettings, and in every study 1my question was, who i

4、s successful here and why? myresearch team and i went to west point military academy. we tried to predict whichstudents would stay in military training and which would drop out. 3we went to thenational spelling contest and tried to predict which children would advance farthestincompetition.we worked

5、 withprivate companies, asking, whichofthesesalespeople is going to keep their jobs? and whos going to earn the most money? wewent to many places, and finally one characteristic emerged as a significant predictorof success. and it wasnt social intelligence. it wasnt good looks, physical health, andi

6、t wasnt iq. it was grit. what is grit? well, 4grit ispassion and perseveranceforvery long-term goals. grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the1最新 料推荐week, not just for the month, but for years, 5and working really hard to make thatfuture a reality. 6grit is living life li

7、ke its a marathon, not a sprint. a few years ago,i started studying grit in the chicago public schools. i asked thousands of high schooljuniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to seewho would graduate. 7it turned out that grittier kids were significantly more lik

8、elyto graduate, even when i matched them on every characteristic i could measure,things like family income, test scores and so on. to me, the most shocking thing aboutgrit is how little we know, how little science knows about building it. every day,parents and teachers ask me” how do i build grit in

9、 kids? how do i keep themmotivated for the long run? our data show very clearly that there are many talentedindividuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. 8in fact, in ourdata, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent. so far,the best idea ive hea

10、rd about building grit in kids is something called growthmindset. 9growth mindset is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that itcan change with your effort. 10kids with grit are much more likely to perseverewhen they fail, because they dont believe that failure is a permanent conditio

11、n. sogrowth mindset is a great idea for building grit. but we need more. and thats whereim going to end my remarks, because thats where we are. thats the work that standsbefore us. we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessonslearned.as a conclusion, we need to be grit

12、ty about getting our kids grittier. nest time, iwould like to share with my experience in building up students grit.2最新 料推荐2016 tem 4 mini- lecture task ：my questionwhy isn t iq the only difference between situations?what is the key to (1) _?my researchinvestigation of all kinds of (2) _, including:

13、- west point military academy- (3) _- private companiesmy finding: grit as predictor of successgrit is (4) _ for very long-term goals.grit is working hard for years to make (5) _grit is living your life like a (6) _my surveyhigh school juniors took grit questionnaires(7) _ kids were more likely to graduategrit-buildinglittle is known about how to build grit in students