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出題大学 広島経済大学
制限時間10分 6 p.21
The composer Mozart is famous for showing a talent for music
when he was just a small child. However, ( 7 ) Mozart produced
in his early years is not considered to be particularly outstanding.
He didn't produce his first true masterpiece* until he was 21; pretty
s young to be sure, but Mozart ( 1 ) already been composing for
years by this time.
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The figure of 10,000 hours has been suggested as the amount
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of serious practice or study needed to truly master a skill. That
is nearly two hours a day, every day, for 14 years. Natural ability
is, of course, an important factor in success, but even someone as
talented as Mozart couldn't become a "great" composer until he had
put in* 10,000 hours of hard work. The same can be said of golfer
Tiger Woods and computer genius Bill Gates.
Most people in developed countries can expect to have a healthy
life of at least 70 years, or 613,608 hours. Although that seems like a
ot of hours, most people spend about a third of them asleep. Take
way all the hours we "lose" moving from place to place, eating, etc.,
well as the time spent at work or school, and the amount of free
me we have starts to look quite limited.