영어2 비상 홍민표 1과 변형문제 The Path Ahead

____ a young person about to enter adulthood,

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

and how I might ____ something meaningful with my time.

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

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

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

What will ____ be like when I get old?

Will ____ around and doing things be difficult?

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

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

After traveling around North America like that for three ____ she understood the difficulties the elderly face in our modern society and thus set 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 ____ find a solution.

Would I do ____ same to help others in need?

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

Moore's dedication has given me ideas about how I ____ be of service 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 ____ of setting concrete life goals.

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

When asked about his motivation for writing ____ “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 let life slip by ____ he said.

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

So what are ____ 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 accomplish in life, but where do I ____ start?

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

More importantly, ____ need 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 first. It's ____ to write out my list.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe that ____ 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 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 ____ woman of action when she passed up a life of luxury to help the ill and the dispossessed in her country.

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

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

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

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

Soon, ____ left in shame.

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

I ____ beginning an ambitious life journey.

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

The lesson I should learn from Dr. Hawa's ____ 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 ____ I develop them further.

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

____ is the beginning of my life of service.