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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Letting go of success

I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've _   __ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully ___   ____ today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never ___   ___ while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The __   ____ is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!

I once __   ____ a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend ___   ____  Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her ___   ____ son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He ___   ____ he was racing those cars around a great track, which in ___   ____ was an imaginary circle around a golden statue (雕像). The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable ___   ____ for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.

When his mother told him the time had come to __   ____,the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this?” __   ____ to the Oscar.

“Sure,” he smiled. “It's yours.”

The horrified mother ___   ____. “Put that back immediately!”

Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me; ___   __ it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a ___   ____ hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to __   ____, rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.

You may have learned to let go of past ___   ____ and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ___   ____? Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?

“I like the __   ____ of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. I ___   ____. After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.

1.A. discovered     B. inferred   C. hoped      D. worried

2.A. spend       B. live      C. enjoy      D. understand

3.A. struggle      B. work     C. learn     D. succeed

4.A. story        B. fact      C. idea       D. news

5.A. heard       B. told      C. knew       D. wrote

6.A. saw         B. recognized   C. met       D. visited

7.A. careful       B. small     C. lonely      D. clever

8.A. pretended     B. believed   C. insisted     D. suggested

9.A. case         B. reality     C. turn       D. need

10.A. cared        B. asked     C. looked      D. won

11.A. act         B. leave     C. play       D. wait

12.A. running       B. getting    C. pointing     D. shouting

13.A. objected       B. noticed    C. suffered     D. breathed

14.A. selling       B. keeping   C. sharing     D. earning

15.A. special       B. comfortable  C. expensive    D. necessary

16.A. rest         B. cheat     C. stop       D. sit

17.A. difficulties     B. Events   C. failures     D. achievements

18.A. time         B. future     C. body       D. brain

19.A. idea         B. meaning   C. dreams     D. thoughts

20.A. obey         B. permit     C. wish       D. agree

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