영어2 비상 홍민표 1과 변형문제 The Path Ahead

As a young person about to ____ adulthood,

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

and how I might do ____ meaningful 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 lives and have accomplished great ____.

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

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

What ____ it be like when I get old?

Will getting around and doing things be ____?

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

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

After traveling around ____ 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 would simplify life for our senior citizens.

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

____ I do the same to help others in need?

I certainly don't want to ____ to 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 words ____ 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 ____ and, during his life, accomplished 109 of them.

When 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 ____ when they were younger.

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

“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 ____ of a priority than others?

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

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

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.

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

____ of all, I want 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 ____ steps.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ____ 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 ____ when she passed up a life of luxury to help the ill and the dispossessed in her country.

In 1983, when Somalia's ____ collapsed, 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 ____ and make a difference.

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

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

Soon, they ____ in shame.

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

I am beginning an ambitious ____ journey.

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

The lesson I should ____ from 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, ____ 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 ____.

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

This is the beginning of my ____ of service.