单选题 Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
I do not know who wrote those words, / but I have always liked them as a reminder / that the future can be anything we want to make it.

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【答案解析】[听力原文] I do not know who wrote those words, / but I have always liked them as a reminder / that the future can be anything we want to make it. / We can take the mysterious, hazy future / and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, / just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone. / We are all in the position of the farmer. / If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. / If our seed is poor and full of weeds, / we reap a useless crop. / If we plant nothing at all, / we harvest nothing at all. / I want the future to be better than the past. / I don't want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors / with which history is filled. / We should all be concerned about the future / because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives.