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今日朗讀
One foot in front of the other
閱讀難度：★★★☆☆（個人情感）
Words: about 330; Time: 5.5 minutes
語篇導讀： 練習了很久卻沒有掌握的鋼琴曲讓“我”十分懊惱。可是當“我”冷靜下來，不斷琢磨，終於有所突破。
Hitting heavily on the keys in frustration (沮喪), I turned away from the piano, trying to fight the tears that were already welling up in my eyes. After an hour of practicing, I still couldn’t get the rhythm (節奏) quite right on a Mozart piece that I had to present to my piano teacher the following day. It was frustrating to have spent such a long time on a piano song and still be unable to play the piece correctly. To me, the piece had at first seemed easy. But, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t seem to play it the way that it was supposed to be played.
I decided to take a break. For the most part, after a little bit of work, I could usually learn the song pretty quickly. However, it was always that one song, which might have appeared simple but was difficult, that always got to me. These types of songs always made me doubt myself as a pianist.
After having dinner, I decided to come back to the piano. Placing my fingers on the keys, I chose to play the piece slowly and carefully, paying attention to hitting the correct notes instead of trying to play the piece quickly. Using this new method of practicing, I exercised a great deal of patience, something that I often had trouble with. Instead of thinking how hard the rhythm was, I thought about how I could improve myself, little by little. Finally, I could slowly see myself getting better.
However, I didn’t even get the rhythm right until a week later. I also learned an important lesson — sometimes, baby steps are the best way to reach a goal. I’m an impatient person who likes to think that I can get somewhere by leaps and bounds (非常迅速). But, in the case of piano, I couldn’t move forward and improve until I slowed down, believed in myself, and took it one step at a time.
From: mag.amazing-kids.org
---選自《英語週報》2017-2018學年上《高一人教課標綜合》第8期
【啟示】 古人常說，欲速則不達。有些時候，慢慢來反而會比較快。
語音要點：
後語：堅持是一種信仰，專注是一種態度！每一次您的轉發，就是對我們的認同和鼓勵！親們，喜歡就積極轉發吧，您的每一次轉發，都是我們持續的原創動力。原創的路上感恩有您一路同行！！！
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