苏锡常镇二模 棒棒糖 原文.doc

The Only Owl that Matters How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop? (一种棒棒糖，外观是一层水果硬糖，中心包有巧克力软糖。它最知名的广告词是：你永远不知道到底要舔多少下才能吃到中间的软糖，所以干脆一、二、三大口咬下吧！) The first time I heard this during the Tootsie pop commercial, I was five years old. I immediately ran to the kitchen, got a Tootsie pop and began carefully counting the licks it took to get to the soft chewy middle. I sat there in front of the television, tediously(乏味冗长地) licking and counting. About after two hundred licks or so, I stopped. The temptation of the chewy center had proven to be too great, and I bit my way through the hard shell to the very center. Besides, I already knew how many licks it took to get to the center梩hree. Thats how many licks it took the owl in the commercial to get to the center, so that, to me, was the right answer. In high school, I had grown out of eating Tootsie pops in front of the television. By this time, I had begun to focus on more worldly things梥uch as keeping my grade point average decent, participating in extra-curricular activities, and preparing myself for leaving home. However, while I may have stopped eating Tootsie pops, I still held steadfastly(不变地，坚决地) to the Tootsie pop philosophy—How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop? To me, the answer was still always what the owl had told me—three licks. In my school, Model United Nations (MUN) was the most competitive, prestigious (享有声望的’s how many licks it should take me. In my freshman year, I went to the tryouts and later found out that I had not made the cut (达到标准)for any international conferences. I was devastated(被毁坏的，震惊的). But then, I brightened—if Eric, my first owl, was wrong, maybe I should just find a new owl. My new owl was Iris. Iris had achieved the chair position at the end of her sophomore year, after attending two international conferences. I began working hard again. This time, I landed a spot in an international conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. I was thrilled, no