“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you’ll
16 that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous
17 .”
Mother was right,
18 I discovered after
19 from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way
20 sports announcer. I hitchhiked（搭便车） to Chicago and knocked on the door of
21 station—and got
22 every time. In one
23 , a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t
24 hiring inexperienced persons. “Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a
25 .” she said.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local
26 to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I
27 . The job sounded just right for me.
28 I wasn’t hired.
My disappointment must have shown. “Everything happens for the best,” Mom
29 me. Dad
30 me the car to job-hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had
31 hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my
32 boiled over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” I was waiting for the elevator
33 I heard MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he stood next to me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an
34 game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words: “if you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment”. I often
35 what direction my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
| 小题1: | | A．realize | B．recognize | C．request | D．receive |
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| 小题2: | | A．disappointment | B．excitement | C．pressure | D．anxiety |
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| 小题4: | | A．studying | B．working | C．living | D．graduating |
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| 小题5: | | A．up to | B．out at | C．up for | D．down to |
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| 小题6: | | A．every | B．many | C．a few | D．some |
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| 小题7: | | A．taken down | B．broken down | C．turned down | D．put down |
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| 小题8: | | A．room | B．image | C．studio | D．stage |
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| 小题9: | | A．risk | B．avoid | C．mind | D．regret |
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| 小题10: | | A．trouble | B．chance | C．choice | D．change |
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| 小题11: | | A．adviser | B．athlete | C．photographer | D．composer |
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| 小题12: | | A．applied | B．assisted | C．approved | D．admitted |
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| 小题14: | | A．reminded | B．praised | C．demanded | D．informed |
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| 小题15: | | A．supplied | B．provided | C．prepared | D．offered |
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| 小题16: | | A．still | B．even | C．already | D．yet |
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| 小题17: | | A．distinction | B．frustration | C．impression | D．expression |
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| 小题19: | | A．visible | B．bitterness | C．imaginary | D．satisfactory |
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| 小题20: | | A．think | B．suspect | C．doubt | D．wonder |
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