영어2 비상 홍민표 1과 변형문제 The Path Ahead

As a young person about to ____ adulthood,

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

and how I might do something ____ with my time.

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

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

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

____ will it be like when I get old?

Will ____ around and doing things be difficult?

The industrial designer Patricia Moore once asked herself ____ 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 ____ to work designing products and services that would simplify life for our senior citizens.

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

Would I do the same to ____ others in need?

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

____ dedication has given me ideas about how I might be of service to others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So what are my life ____?

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

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

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

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

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

First of all, I want to ____ 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 ____ effort and many complicated steps.

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

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

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

For ____, I could 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 ____ learned the basics of genetic engineering.

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

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

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

In 1983, when Somalia's government collapsed, Abdi was running a successful medical ____ in her country's capital, Mogadishu.

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

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

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

____, they left in shame.

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

I am beginning an ambitious life ____.

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

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

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

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

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

This is the beginning of my ____ of service.