영어2 비상 홍민표 1과 변형문제 The Path Ahead

As a young ____ about to enter adulthood,

I've been thinking a ____ 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 ____ others have steered the course of their lives and have accomplished great things.

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

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

What will it be like when ____ get old?

Will getting around and doing ____ be difficult?

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

When she was just 26 ____ old, Moore dressed like an 80-year-old woman and handicapped herself 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 ____ thus set to work designing products and services that would simplify life for our senior citizens.

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

Would I do the same ____ help others in need?

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

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

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

When he was just 15 years old, Goddard realized the importance ____ setting concrete 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 knew ____ to complain that they hadn't accomplished things when they were younger.

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

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

So ____ are my life goals?

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

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

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

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

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

First of all, I want to become a genetic engineer and develop tools and methods ____ 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 ____ set the goal earlier, but I still have plenty of time to accomplish this.

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

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

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

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

By this, I mean that people like ____ who are lucky enough 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 ____ passed 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 clinic in her ____ capital, Mogadishu.

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

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

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

____ they left in shame.

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

I am beginning an ambitious ____ journey.

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

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

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

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

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

This is the ____ of my life of service.