To Be Lucky, Be Prepared

I remember the exact moment I learned the principle of preparing for luck.

I was on the wrestling team, Now, if there’s one thing I can tell you about any sport, it is that wresting is probably the sport that has the least  1  . There are only two people out on the mat, so you cannot  2  it on your teammates or your coach. And guess what? There is no  3  because we do the whole thing indoors, so you can’t say, “It was raining” or “It was snowing.” It makes  4  to say wrestling is the sport with the least luck.

On our team were two world champions; one of them had been world champion five times. We  5  had five people who were national champions. One of them was a guy  6  the name of John.

John had never been  7  in my high school wrestling competition that I could remember,  8  he was a national champion. There was nobody locally who could touch him.

One day, we   9  a match with our biggest opponent（對(duì)手）. John went out on the mat, and about a minute and 30 seconds into the match he tried to make a particular  10  . He rolled over, and his opponent  11  him halfway through his roll. He was pinned  12  !

The match was over.

I remember on the bus on the way home, one of our teammates tried to  13  John by saying, “Oh, he just got lucky.” And John said, “That’s so stupid. The opportunity presented itself,  14  he exploited it.”

We used to have this big sign in our wrestling room that the coach had  15  there. “Luck is what happens when opportunity  16  preparation.”

John’s opponent was prepared to exploit this opportunity. The probability of  17  John was not strong, and he knew it. But he paid attention to the   18  opportunity to present itself, and he defeated and pinned a five-time national champion.

In other words, the real  19  is “Be prepared!” It’s not just finding the opportunity; you have to be prepared to  20  it.

1．A．luck                      B．risk                     C．difficulty             D．opportunity

2．A．a(chǎn)ccuse                  B．blame                  C．doubt                  D．keep

2,4,6
 
3．A．stress                   B．injury                  C．weather               D．standard

4．A．judgment               B．progress              C．sense                  D．way

5．A．a(chǎn)lso                      B．even                    C．only                    D．once

6．A．under                    B．for                      C．in                       D．by

7．A．hurt                      B．chosen                C．trained                D．defeated

8．A．a(chǎn)lthough                B．because               C．unless                 D．until

9．A．went for               B．waited for            C．fought for           D．played for

10．A．sign                    B．step                    C．task                    D．move

11．A．  fixed                  B．threw                  C．caught                D．carried

12．A．a(chǎn)ccidentally         B．fortunately           C．unfairly               D．instantly

13．A．calm                   B．comfort               C．convince             D．forgive

14．A．so                       B．or                       C．a(chǎn)nd                     D．but

15．A．set                      B．put                      C．left                     D．used

16．A．meets                  B．suits                    C．gets                    D．fits

17．A．striking               B．beating                C．knocking             D．controlling

18．A．equal                   B．exact                   C．rest                     D．right

19．A．message              B．passage               C．decision              D．suggestion

20．A．receive             B．follow                 C．seize                  D．save

1—5  ABCCA    6—10  DDBAD      11—15  CDBCB     16—20  ABDAC

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