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One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue when remembered it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. I __1__ the first sock shop that __2__ my eye,   and a boy clerk,   not more than seventeen,   came forward. "I wish to buy a pair of socks." His eyes __3__. " Do you know that you have come into the finest place in the world to buy socks?" I had not been aware of that,   as my entrance had been __4__.      "Hold on,   lad,   I am going to buy only one pair!" "I know that,   but I want you to see how marvelously __5__ these are." There was on his face an expression of serious and holy joy,   as if he were revealing to me the __6__ of his religion. I looked at him in __7__. " My friend,   " said I,   "if you can keep up this zeal and excitement day after day,   in ten years you will __8__ every sock in the United States."      My amazement at his __9__ and joy in salesmanship will be easily understood. In many shops the customer has to wait for someone to   10   him. And when finally some clerk does    11   you,   you are made to feel as if you were    12   him. He shows no interest either in you or in the goods he is   13   to sell.    14   possibly every clerk began his career with hope and  15  . The daily work was too much and dull for him； gradually his only pleasures were found   16   of working hours. He became a  17  ,   not inspired salesman. After being mechanical,   he became incompetent,   then sour. That was the last   18  . His usefulness was over.      I have observed this melancholy (可悲的)   19   in the lives of so many men in so many occupations that I have come to the   20   that the surest road to failure is to do things mechanically.

(      )1. A. rushed into   (      )2. A. hit           (      )3. A. opened       (      )4. A. accidental   (      )5. A. various       (      )6. A. mysteries     (      )7. A. amazement     (      )8. A. occupy       (      )9. A. affection     (      )10. A. wait upon   (      )11. A. observe     (      )12. A. asking       (      )13. A. paid         (      )14. A. And         (      )15. A. sadness     (      )16. A. outside     (      )17. A. mechanical   (      )18. A. procedure   (      )19. A. improvement (      )20. A. faith       B. turned into     B. caught         B. glared         B. deliberate     B. strange         B. opinion         B. interest       B. sell           B. prejudice       B. care about     B. notice         B. inviting       B. ordered         B. However         B. enthusiasm     B. beyond         B. strong         B. approach       B. decrease       B. conclusion     C. stole into     C. fixed         C. brightened     C. considerate   C. long           C. idea           C. puzzle         C. own           C. success       C. concern about C. view           C. interrupting   C. motivated     C. Therefore     C. doubt         C. inside         C. courageous     C. stage         C. increase       C. summary       D. changed into   D. focused         D. widened         D. special         D. beautiful       D. thought         D. admiration     D. attract         D. pride           D. take care       D. see             D. punishing       D. permitted       D. Yet             D. consideration   D. dull           D. demanding       D. pace           D. decline         D. intention

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