练习材料：

L50-1: New Year resolutions

The New Year is a time for resolutions.

Mentally, at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of 'dos' and 'don'ts'.

The same old favorites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity.

We resolve to get up earlier each morning, eat less, find more time to play with the children, do a thousand and one jobs about the house, be nice to people we don't' like, drive carefully, and take the dog for a walk every day.

Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment.

If we remain inveterate smokers,

it is only because we have so often experienced the frustration that results from failure.

Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out.

We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our bad old ways.

Aware of these pitfalls,

this year I attempted to keep my resolutions to myself.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记： resolutions/rɛzəˈluʃən    compile/kəmˈpaɪl    formidable/fɔrmədəbəl    favorites/feɪvərɪts    recur/rɪˈkɜr    monotonous/məˈnɑtənəs    frustration/frəˈstreɪʃən    schemes/skimz    error/ɛrər   

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