“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I
36 disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something
37 will happen. And you’ll realize that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that
38 disappointment.”
Mother was right,
39 I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to
40 a job in radio, then work my way up to sports 41 . I hitchhiked（搭便车） to Chicago and
42 on the door of every station—and got turned
43 every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring an
44 person –“Go out in the sticks（偏远地区） and find a small station that will give you a
45 ,” she said.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.
46 there was no radio—announcing job in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to
47 its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football. I
48 . The job
49 just right for me. But I wasn’t hired.
My disappointment must have
50 . “Everything happens for the best,” Mom
51 me. Dad offered 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, my frustration
52 . 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
53 I heard MacAethur calling, “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to stand before a microphone and to broadcast a (an)
54 game.
On my way home, once again I thought of my mother’s words. I often wonder what
55 my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
| 小题1: | | A．faced | B．received | C．considered | D．met |
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| 小题2: | | A．useful | B．helpful | C．available | D．good |
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| 小题3: | | A．old | B．previous | C．original | D．early |
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| 小题5: | | A．try out | B．try on | C．try for | D．try over |
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| 小题6: | | A．player | B．announcer | C．manager | D．fan |
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| 小题7: | | A．knocked | B．arrived | C．approached | D．hunted |
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| 小题9: | | A．unpracticed | B．inpracticed | C．inexperienced | D．unexperienced |
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| 小题10: | | A．job | B．suggestion | C．chance | D．advantage |
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| 小题12: | | A．work | B．receive | C．arrange | D．design |
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| 小题13: | | A．accepted | B．agreed | C．applied | D．promised |
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| 小题14: | | A．sounded | B．became | C．got | D．grew |
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| 小题15: | | A．come | B．shown | C．disappeared | D．brightened |
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| 小题16: | | A．recovered | B．encouraged | C．hugged | D．reminded |
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| 小题17: | | A．boiled over | B．turned over | C．hit over | D．took over |
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| 小题18: | | A．after | B．as | C．before | D．when |
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| 小题19: | | A．forceful | B．close | C．imaginary | D．ordinary |
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| 小题20: | | A．side | B．action | C．approach | D．direction |
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