In life’s journey, maturity plays a significant role in guiding individuals towards success. It encompasses 【小题1】 like wisdom, responsibility, and the ability to adapt to change. Financial maturity is about making wise decisions regarding money. It 【小题2】 understanding the importance of saving, investing, and managing finances for long-term stability. Adaptability is another key aspect of maturity. It enables individuals to 【小题3】 life’s ups and downs with resilience and flexibility,

Mature individuals often exhibit 【小题4】 features such as confidence and firmness, which command respect and 【小题5】 from others. In society, mature individuals are often seen as leaders and mentors, 【小题6】 upon their experiences to guide and inspire others. Acknowledging tiny and learning from challenges is a typical mark of maturity. Instead of 【小题7】 difficulties, mature individuals face them head-on, using them as stepping stones towards personal growth.

The impact of maturity on personal and professional development is 【小题8】. It requires self-reflection, discipline, and a willingness to learn from both successes and failures. As educators, it is our responsibility to ins till the value of maturity in our students 【小题9】 them with the skills needed to undergo the complexities of life and achieve their goals.

In conclusion, maturity is essential for success and fulfillment. Let us embrace change as a（n） 【小题10】 for growth and celebrate the growth of maturity in ourselves and others as we go through life.

Making a Mistake Can Put Your Brain on ‘Pause’

Mistakes can be learning opportunities, but the brain needs time for lessons to sink in.

When facing fast decisions, even the 【小题1】 distraction of noting an error can decrease accuracy on the next choice, researchers report in the March 15 Journal of Neuroscience.

“We have a brain region that monitors and says ‘you messed up’ so that we can correct our behavior,” says psychologist George Buzzell, now at the University of Maryland in College Park.   But sometimes, that monitoring system can backfire, 【小题2】 us from the task at hand and causing us to make another error.

“There does seem to be a little bit of time for people, after mistakes, where you’re sort of   【小题3】,” says Jason Moser, a psychologist at Michigan State University, who wasn’t part of the study.

To test people’s 【小题4】 to making mistakes, Buzzell and colleagues at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., monitored 23 participants’ brain activity while they worked through a challenging task. Concentric（同心的）circles 【小题5】 briefly on a screen, and participants had to respond with one hand if the two circles were the same color and the other hand if the circles were slightly different shades.

After making a mistake, participants generally answered the next question correctly if they had a second or so to recover. But when the next challenge came very quickly after an error, as little as 0.2 seconds, accuracy 【小题6】 by about 10 percent. Electrical activity recorded from the 【小题7】 cortex（大脑皮层）showed that participants paid less attention to the next experiment if they had just made a mistake than if they had responded 【小题8】.

The cognitive demand of noting and 【小题9】 the error seems to divert attention that would otherwise be devoted to the task, Buzzell says.

In real life, people usually have time — even if just a few seconds — to reflect on a mistake before having to make another decision. But in some activities such as driving a car or playing a musical instrument, people must rebound from errors quickly while continuing to correctly carry out the rest of the task. Those actions might push the 【小题10】 of error processing.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious 【小题1】 disease that can easily spread from one person to another. It affects the 【小题2】 and is passed on through tiny drops of saliva released when someone coughs or sneezes.

Due to better understanding of the disease and how to treat it, it is now quite 【小题3】   in the developed world. Parts of the 【小题4】, such as some parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America experience higher rates of TB. In 【小题5】 with high rates of human immunodeficiency 【小题6】 (HIV), however, the incidence of TB is also quite high, as TB spreads quickly among people with weak immune systems. Other risky 【小题7】 for catching the disease include age (being very young or old), hunger and malnutrition and having serious illnesses such as cancer or diabetes. Living in poor or unhealthy conditions or working in hospitals and other health facilities also 【小题8】 a risk to people.

There are some vaccines that can be used in young children to prevent TB but they are not effective for adults. 【小题9】 and testing of other vaccines are ongoing.