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    "Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened without that previous disappointment."

    Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked（搭便车）to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station and got turned down every time.

    In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring an inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance," she said.

    So I returned to my hometown--Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired.

    My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director named Peter MacArthur told me they had already hired an announcer.

    As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked aloud, "How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"

    I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he asked me to broadcast an imaginary game before a microphone.

    On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words. I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

    60. What would be the best title for the passage?

    A. No pains, no gains.               B. All roads lead to Rome

    C. Practice makes perfect       D. Where there is a will, there is a way.    

    61. According to the passage, the author     .

    A. managed to get a job at Montgomery Ward.

    B. found a job in Chicago after graduation from college.

    C. finally worked as a sports announcer at WOC Radio in Davenport.

    D. thought he had to find other jobs first if he wanted to be a sports annoucer.

    62. Who is most likely to affect him in finding the job?

    A. his father    B. his mother     C. a kind lady.    D. Peter MacArthur

    63. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 probably means the author     .

    A. felt calm   B. felt confused    C. became stressed     D. became mad

    DCBD　

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