“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of life. It has brought me _________. I learned the law from my father’s _________ story.

My father was _________ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, and then _________ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework _________ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no _________!

At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where _________ people can become rich.

“_________ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.

So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to _________ money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire(雇用) me because I spoke __________ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, __________ the dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was __________ for the first few years. I worked from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t __________ the tuition(学费).”

My father __________ working hard, and reached his goal.

“Alan,” he often says to me, “if you want something, you have to work for it and never give up.

Things do not come __________ in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

【1】A.disaster B.loss C.success D.pity

【2】A.life B.fashion C.danger D.history

【3】A.famous B.lucky C.rich D.born

【4】A.taught B.worked C.studied D.slept

【5】A.until B.towards C.for D.during

【6】A.experience B.energy C.time D.money

【7】A.kind B.poor C.strong D.lazy

【8】A.What B.How C.Why D.When

【9】A.discover B.make C.collect D.spend

【10】A.little B.good C.much D.excellent

【11】A.giving B.running C.washing D.receiving

【12】A.comfortable B.cheerful C.nice D.hard

【13】A.borrow B.need C.afford D.receive

【14】A.kept B.finished C.minded D.stopped

【15】A.really B.easily C.quietly D.slowly