橙子的ScalersTalk第六轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day 2

练习材料：[Day 2778 2022-05-04]

L50-1: New Year resolutions

The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally, at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of 'dos' and 'don'ts'. The same old favorites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity. We resolve to get up earlier each morning,eat less, find more time to play with the children, do a thousand and one jobs about the house, be nice to people we don't' like, drive carefully, and take the dog for a walk every day. Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remaininveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced thefrustration that results from failure.Most of us fail in our efforts atself-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have timeto carry them out. We also make the fundamental errorof announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slipback into our bad old ways. Aware of these pitfalls, this year I attempted tokeep my resolutions to myself.

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