A lesson of life
" Everything happens for the best, " my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something
will happen. And you'll
that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment. "
After graduating from college, I
that mother was right. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I travelled to Chicago by getting
rides from drivers of passing cars and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned
every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't
hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the countryside and find a small station that'll give you a
, " she said.
I returned 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
athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I
. The job sounded just
for me. But I wasn't
.
My
must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom
me. Dad
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 already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt extremely
.I asked
, " 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
I heard MacArthur calling, " What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me
a microphone (麦克风) and asked me to broadcast an
game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: " Keep on trying until some day you succeed. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous failure. " I often wonder what
my life might have taken if I'd got the job at Montgomery
小题1: | A.good | B.bad | C.interesting | D.important |
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小题2: | A.hope | B.declare | C.realize | D.explain |
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小题3: | A.announced | B.discovered | C.suggested | D.expected |
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小题4: | A.smooth | B.short | C.comfortable | D.free |
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小题6: | A.advise | B.mind | C.risk | D.practise |
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小题7: | A.choice | B.promise | C.result | D.chance |
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小题8: | A.professional | B.natural | C.local | D.top |
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小题9: | A.volunteered | B.responded | C.registered | D.applied |
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小题10: | A.right | B.special | C.difficult | D.correct |
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小题11: | A.fired | B.identified | C.hired | D.interviewed |
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小题12: | A.astonishment | B.disappointment | C.ambition | D.appreciation |
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小题13: | A.admired | B.undersood | C.blamed | D.reminded |
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小题14: | A.offered | B.made | C.showed | D.returned |
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小题15: | A.discouraged | B.delighted | C.embarrassed | D.frightened |
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小题16: | A.anxiously | B.aloud | C.carefully | D.politely |
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小题19: | A.imaginary | B.interesting | C.important | D.intemational |
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小题20: | A.effect | B.direction | C.aim | D.pleasure |
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