영어2 비상 홍민표 1과 변형문제 The Path Ahead

As a young person about to ____ adulthood,

____ been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do with my life

and how I ____ do something meaningful with my time.

I've come to the conclusion that the best way to find direction is to look at ____ others have steered the course of their lives and have accomplished great things.

I'm going to read as much as I ____ about inspirational people, and I'll record my reflections here.

Hopefully, the exercise ____ help me organize my thoughts and choose a specific path for myself.

What will it be like ____ I get old?

Will getting ____ and doing things be difficult?

The ____ designer Patricia Moore once asked herself these very questions as a young woman.

When she was just 26 years old, Moore dressed like an 80-year-old woman and handicapped ____ with weights and blurred glasses to find answers.

After traveling around North America like that for three years, she understood the difficulties the elderly face in our modern society and thus set to work designing products and services that ____ simplify life for our senior citizens.

I admire Moore in that she dedicated herself to a particular problem and really sacrificed in order to find a ____.

Would I do the ____ to help others in need?

I certainly don't want to get to the end of my life and say, “I wish I had done more to help ____.”

Moore's dedication has given me ideas about how I might be of ____ to others.

I came across these ____ from a famed explorer John Goddard a few weeks ago.

When he was just 15 years old, Goddard realized the importance of ____ concrete life goals.

So he wrote down 127 specific aims and, during his ____, accomplished 109 of them.

____ asked about his motivation for writing this “Life List,” he said that all the adults he knew seemed to complain that they hadn't accomplished things when they were younger.

“They had ____ life slip by them,” he said.

“I was sure that if I ____ for my future, I could have a life of excitement, fun, and knowledge.”

So ____ are my life goals?

Are some of my goals more of a ____ than others?

There's no question that I have a bunch of things I want to ____ in life, but where do I even start?

Like Goddard, I ____ to be specific about goals, and I should write them down.

More importantly, I ____ to be brave enough to dare to do the things on my list, and this will certainly require me to leave my comfort zone.

Well, first things ____. It's time to write out my list.

First of all, I ____ to become a genetic engineer and develop tools and methods that might be used to treat rare diseases.

I know the goal in and of itself is daunting and involves much effort and many complicated ____.

I wish I had ____ the goal earlier, but I still have plenty of time to accomplish this.

Anyway, I'm glad that I came up with the very first goal on my life ____. So what's the next step?

The most practical thing would be to think about successive objectives leading to the ultimate ____.

For example, I ____ study biology in university and then, during the summers, I could do a work-study program at a genetic research lab.

By the time I finish that, I will have ____ the basics of genetic engineering.

I believe that the luckiest people in the ____ owe a debt to those who are not so fortunate.

By this, I mean that people like me, who are lucky enough to receive a good education, have loving parents, and live in a relatively safe country, ought to get ____ into the world and actively help the poor and the sick.

Dr. Hawa Abdi proved herself to be a ____ of action when she passed up a life of luxury to help the ill and the dispossessed in her country.

In ____, when Somalia's government collapsed, Abdi was running a successful medical clinic in her country's capital, Mogadishu.

She could have escaped and ____ comfortably overseas, but she decided to stay and make a difference.

She established a hospital and ____ on her family's land.

One day, rebels tried to take over her hospital, but “____ Hawa” outstared the rebels.

Soon, they left in ____.

She picked herself up from this ____ to continue healing, feeding, educating, and caring for her people.

I am beginning an ambitious life ____.

By the end, I will have experienced many setbacks and obstacles which ____ have helped me grow.

The lesson I should learn from Dr. ____ story is that each obstacle must be met with courage and determination.

There are people right ____ in my country, right now, who also need help.

I believe I have certain skills and abilities that are unique to me, and that can benefit society if I develop them ____.

Through education, I need to refine ____ skills for the good of the maximum number of people.

This is the beginning of my life of ____.