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阅读理解
Once there was a man named Colonel Sanders.
After running a restaurant for years in Kentucky, USA. he retired (退休) and found he was really poor. At the age of 65, he decided that he
must make a difference to his life. So he thought about what he could do. He
had special chicken recipe (食谱) and his friends all
loved it very much. He thought that was where he could start. Sanders decided
to sell his recipe. He left Kentucky and went to different places of America. He
told restaurant owners that he had a great chicken recipe. He would give
the recipe to them for free, and they just needed to pay a little money for
every chicken they sold, Sounds good, right?
Unluckily,
most of the restaurant owners didn't think so. Sanders heard NO over 1,000
times. However, he didn't give up (放弃). He
believed his chicken recipe was something special. He got NO 1,009 times before
he heard the first YES.
With
that one success (成功), Sanders brought new
way of eating chicken to Americans. Then he started Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
Now KFC is famous around the world.
What's
the key to his success? Maybe it's "believe, dream, try and never give
up".
