閱讀下面短文,從短文后各題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項,并從答題卡上將該選項涂黑。
Each time I was feeling disappointed, my mother would say to me “ Tomorrow will be another day. If you can
on, some day something nice will happen. And you will come to know that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous
.”
What mother said was absolutely right, as I
after my graduation from college. I had made up my mind to try for a
in radio, then
my way up to sports announcer. I went to Springfield and knocked on the door of each station—and got
each time. In one studio, a warm-hearted woman told me that
stations couldn’t risk employing a(n)
person. “ Please go out to the faraway or lonely district and find a small station which will give you a
,” she said. I came back home to St-Louis.
While there were no radio-announcing jobs in St-Louis, my father said Wards Holding Corporation had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its
department. Since St-Louis was where I had played high school football, I
. The job sounded just
for me. But I wasn’t employed. My disappointment must have
. “Tomorrow will be another day,” Mom
me. I tried WOC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The program director, Jack Green, told me they had already hired an
.
As I went away from his office, my frustration boiled over (爆發(fā)). I asked
, “How can a young man get to be a sports announcer if he cannot get a job in a radio station?” I was just patiently waiting for the elevator
I heard Jack Green calling, “What did you say about sports just now? You mean you know something about football?” Then he stood me
a microphone and told me to
an imaginary game.
On the way to my home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words. From time to time I
what direction my life might have taken if I had had the job at Wards Holding Corporation
小題1: | A.take | B.put | C.move | D.carry |
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小題2: | A.concern | B.doubt | C.disappointment | D.a(chǎn)mazement |
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小題3: | A.recovered | B.discovered | C.recognized | D.developed |
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小題4: | A.job | B.plan | C.trip | D.research |
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小題6: | A.put off | B.broken away | C.turned down | D.fed up |
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小題8: | A.selfish | B.confident | C.inexperienced | D.independent |
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小題9: | A.tip | B.reward | C.challenge | D.chance |
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小題10: | A.sports | B.food | C.clothes | D.radio |
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小題11: | A.hesitated | B.a(chǎn)pplied | C.refused | D.a(chǎn)greed |
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小題12: | A.right | B.important | C.boring | D.funny |
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小題13: | A.disappeared | B.hidden | C.shown | D.died |
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小題14: | A.warned | B.reminded | C.recognized | D.demanded |
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小題15: | A.a(chǎn)thlete | B.a(chǎn)ctor | C.a(chǎn)nnouncer | D.a(chǎn)rtist |
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小題16: | A.a(chǎn)loud | B.secretly | C.silently | D.equally |
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小題17: | A.while | B.where | C.a(chǎn)fter | D.when |
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小題18: | A.within | B.before | C.beyond | D.beneath |
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小題19: | A.play | B.perform | C.broadcast | D.present |
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小題20: | A.say | B.wonder | C.dream | D.learn |
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