Failure is mother of success, as the Chinese saying goes. I know it is not easy as parents to see our children failing. However, there is great value in “failure”.
I remember many years ago when I was a student leader, I organized a camp with my committee, which turned out to be a disaster. We scheduled activities too close together, and didn’t assign(分配) enough time for meal and bath.
My leaders, who I thought were thoroughly angry with us, led us lead, nevertheless. They kept us in check, and had a few talks with us during the camp and we readjusted the schedule. They gave us the freedom to lead and also the freedom to fail.
Many years down the road, I was a guest speaker at a similar camp. Again, it was a disaster for different reasons. The student wrote a schedule, and the leaders rewrote it. The student came up with a menu, and the leaders changed it. While at the camp, the leaders amended (修改) the schedule further. The poor committee couldn’t attempt to lead without being ignored by their leaders.
To be sure, I learned more from my failed camp than the one at which I was a guest. Having the skills to plan a camp at 16 set the foundation (基础) for future skills to plan a project and see it through at the workplace.
As parents, many of us have much about how success arises from failure. The history of silence is filled with such stories: an experiment that went hopelessly wrong eventually led to something right.
Most successes are achieved through persistence(坚持), and often only after persevering through failures, sometimes many times over. We only succeed because of a failure.
12.In the first paragraph the author want to say that _______.
A. children are more likely to fail than adults
B. Parents should allow children to make mistakes
C. parents should know how to lead their children to succeed
D. parents should help their children know the value of failure
13.Why did the author fail to organize a successful camp?
A. Because he didn’t arrange enough activities
B. Because he didn’t prepare meals for campers.
C. Because he didn’t arrange the time reasonably
D. Because he didn’t take advice from the leaders.
14.It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s leaders ______.
A. were disappointed with the students[]
B. were not good at giving advice
C. were strict with the students
D. were patient with the students
15.By attending the two camps, the author learned that ______.
A. leaders should care much about students’need.
B. students should be given enough freedom
C. students should make a schedule by themselves
D. students should ignore leaders’orders.