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.

任务配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：

resolution n.决心 New Year resolution 新年决心

mentally adv.思想上 connected with or happening in the mind

compile v.编写 to make a book,list,record,etc,using different pieces of information,music etc

formidableadj.难对付的 difficult to deal with and needing a lot of effort or skill

do's and don'ts 规定

recur v.再次发生

monotonous adj.单调的 boring because of always being the same

regularity n.规律性

attainment n.达到

beyond attainment 达不到的

inveterate adn.根深蒂固的

frustration n.沮丧

scheme n.计划

pitfall n.问题

a thousand and one 许许多多

year in year out 年复一年

carry out 实行，执行

练习感悟：

Never leave the things until tomorrow you can do today.