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【正文】 whether a basketball player was a positive role model, I would want to know: Does he influence people’s lives in a positive way away from the court? How much has he given of himself, in time or in money, honesty [N][5]times when it helps for a mother and father to be able to say to their kids, amp。quot。Do you think Karl Malone or Scottie [N]take the place of parents[6]taketoo farput us on a pedestal that feels more like a tightrope—so narrow that we’re bound to[N] fall off eventually. This is [N][N]putting[N] a lifesized picture of you on a wall and saying things to your picture before they go to bed. scary[7]Olympicsconfining[N]HarleyDavidson motorcycle and riding it down the street. First, the Jazz would have a fit and say it’s too you name itmeasure up tomotorcycles?amp。quot。 [8]model outweigh the bad. It’s a great feeling to think you’re a dropping out[N]look up to[9] championship[N] At some time or other, all of us have played the part of a hypochondriac, imagining that we have on the strength ofa new disease and they begin checking themselves to see if they may be suffering from it. But fear of disease is not our only fear, and neither is risk[N] of disease the only risk we run[N]. Modern life is full of all manner of[N][N]robbedmultiply[2]likehypochondria。 in both, the fear or anxiety feedson partialphysiciandefinitivesuspected disease or you don’t. It is much more difficult when anxiety [N][3]probability[N]end up[N]may well[N] inflatescausing an accident that would never have occurred otherwise[N]?[4] All of this is another way of saying that nothing we do is pletely are risks, often potentially serious ones, associated with every hobby we have, every job we take, every food we eat—in other reducetoneuroticsinform[N][5]roughlyarmoredinjurythe added cost andinconvenience worth the difference in price,[6] We cannot begin to answer such questions until we have in questionsimple number. We know, for instance, that about 25,000 people per disastersin a car is much riskier than mining? Not necessarily. The fact is that some 200 million Americans regularly ride assessratiofractionnumeratordenominatorrisky[7] By reducing all risks to ratios or fractions of this sort, we can begin to pare different sorts of versusriskinessminersturns out to be four times riskier than the former. Those ratios enable us to pare the risks of activities or [N]exposures[8][N] (963 words) facultyworld that does not exist, indeed, that cannot exist. You have spent four years supposing that failure leaves no [N]starting now, in the world to which you go, failure marks[N] you. Confronting difficulty by quitting leaves you changed[N]. Outside Brown, quitters are no heroes.[2]mediocre[N] presentationcan look back on honor grades[N]for most of what you have done. So, here grades can have meant little in [N][N][N][3]appointments, we made new ones. When your work came in beyond the deadline, [4]garrulous[N][N]responded, as though you earned a response. When you were dull, we pretended you were smart. When you were predictable[N],unimaginative and routine, we listened as if to new and wonderful things. When you [N][N][5]fantasies[N][N][6] ments that don’t deserve a hearing, paying attention even to the lazy, ill and rude. We had to do it, for the sake of education. But nobody will adequate[N]by being easy, free, forgiving, attentive, fortable, interesting, unchallenging fun. Good luck tomorrow.amp。quot。[7]mencement[8]act outparlous[N][N][N]be rid of[N]unlearn[N] (585 words)
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