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If you were to begin a new job tomorrow， you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses。 Success or 1 in your work would depend， to 2 great extent。4 the utmost importance is your attitude。A person 5 begins a job convinced that he isnt going to like it or is 6 that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success。On the other hand， a person who is secure 7 his belief that he is probably as capable 8 doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt 9 it possesses a certain strength of purpose。The chances are that he will do well。 10 the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength。Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness。A book。 This book has been designed to help you capitalize 12 the strength and overcome the 13 that you bring to the job of learning。But insgroupstomeasure your development， you must first 14 stock ofswheresyou stand now。 15 we get further along in the book， wefor developing and strengthening 17 skills。 18 begin with， and your study habits， you should pause 19 examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to your success or failurein school: your 20 ， your reading and communication skills，However。 如果你明天将开始一份新的工作，你本身肯定有一些优势和劣势。在你的工作中，成功或者失败在很大程度上取决于你是否能扬长避短。最重要的是你的态度。如果一个人开始从事一份工作，相信自己不会喜欢它，确信将因此饱受痛苦，那么他的缺点就暴露出来了，这只会阻碍他成功。另一方面，一个人如果确信自己能像其它人一样确信自己能够胜任这份工作，并有很强的目的性愿意去尝试，那么他就又可能做的很好。 ? 具有某一工作的必要技能是一个优势，缺乏这种技巧显然就是一种劣势。若薄记员不懂加法，木匠不能用锯锯出一条直线，那么他们就不能成功。 ?设计这本书的目的是为了帮助你充分利用自己的优势并克服你的找工作时所带着的劣势。但是为了衡量你的进步程度，你首先必须判断你现在在什么水平上。随着书中内容的进一步深入，我们将详细论述发展和加强学习技能的具体过程。但是，首先，你应该从三方面来检测自己的优势和劣势，这对于你在学校里成功与否至关重要。这三方面是：态度，阅读和交际能力，学习习惯。? 参考答案及解析: 　　1.【答案】C 　　【解析】本句的意思是：“成功或失败在很大程度上取决于你是否能扬长避短。”improvement改进;victory胜利;achievement成果，成就。这三个词都不合题意，只有C.failure“失败”最合适。 　　2.【答案】A 　　【解析】to a great extent是固定短语，意思是“很大程度上”，符合题意。类似的说法还有：to a large extent,to some extent, to an extent, to a certain extent, to that extent, to the extent of…。the, some, certain都不能与great exte