17.If you talk to any person that has achieved his goals-despite great difficulties,one thing remains the same.
That person never failed to stay (41)D.The goal was already in sight,and the wish to(42)Athat goal never waved.
This story is an example of this:
When she looked(43)D,Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog.Her body felt (44)C because she had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.
She was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.Now,at age 34,her (45)B was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California.
On that fourth of July morning in 1952,the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so thick that she could (46)D see her support boats.She struggled on,(47)A the freezing cold water of the sea,hour after hour.
Alongside Florence in one of the boats,her mother and her trainer offered (48)C.They told her it wasn't much farther,(49)Ball she could see was fog.They urged her not to give up.She never had thought of that until then-with only a half mile to (50)A,she decided to(51)C.Still warming her frozen body several hours later,she told a reporter,"Look,I'm not (52)Bmyself,but if I could have seen (53)AI might have succeeded."It was not(54)Bor the cold water that beat her.It was the fog.She was unable to see her goal.
Two months later,she tried again.This time,(55)C the same thick fog,she swam with her goal clearly(56)Bin her mind.She knew that (57)A behind that fog was land and this time she (58)Cit!
Let this (59)B forever be kept in your mind.Never take your eyes (60)C your goal,even when you can't see it.
41.A.careful | B.able | C.proud | D.focused |
42.A.reach | B.set | C.see | D.break |
43.A.back | B.below | C.away | D.ahead |
44.A.soft | B.sensitive | C.numb | D.flexible |
45.A.direction | B.goal | C.result | D.role |
46.A.even | B.almost | C.mostly | D.hardly |
47.A.against | B.for | C.behind | D.by |
48.A.assessment | B.commitment | C.encouragement | D.adjustment |
49.A.and | B.but | C.or | D.so |
50.A.go | B.stay | C.remain | D.turn |
51.A.re tire | B.pause | C.quit | D.leave |
52.A.caring | B.excusing | C.permitting | D.scolding |
53.A.land | B.sunshine | C.farther | D.fog |
54.A.excitement | B.tiredness | C.loneliness | D.fear |
55.A.considering | B.besides | C.despite | D.from |
56.A.figured | B.pictured | C.put | D.brought |
57.A.somewhere | B.nowhere | C.anywhere | D.everywhere |
58.A.took | B.got | C.made | D.set |
59.A.impression | B.lesson | C.task | D.time |
60.A.out | B.beside | C.off | D.on. |