Miracles（奇迹）will happen if you don't give up trying. Even if you have  16  for one hundred times, you may succeed when you try for the 10lst time.

  When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my 17  .  They were too soft to be able to walk. Although the news was bad, my mother didn't become  18  . She didn't believe what the doctor said  19  started to look for other ways.

  My mother kept looking for other doctors for me, and finally she  20  . The doctor and his team in the hospital did   21  they could to help me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some  22  to help me walk. One day when my mother came to pick me  23   . I crawled(爬) towards her. She was so surprised and happy that she couldn't believe  24   eyes. Crawling was not walking, but it was a good  25  . Day by day, I could walk by myself.

   When I grew up, my mother   26   told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met   27  , I could do anything successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be a very   28   person. I get best   29  in school and I am a good dancer and swimmer. Thanks to my mother's strong resolution(决心), I live a    30    life now. What the story tells us, as my mother always says, is: Never give up.

1.A. achieved     B. failed       C. suggested          D. told

2.A. legs           B. hands        C. arms                 D. eyes

3.A. patient     B. confident    C. frustrated(沮丧的)  D. proud

4.A. or             B. and         C. if                   D. because

5.A. forgot      B. changed         C. succeeded            D. worked

6.A. nothing     B. somewhere       C. anywhere             D. everything

7.A. time        B. exercise     C. medicine            D. shopping

8.A. away        B. from       C. into                 D. up

9.A. her         B. my         C. his                  D. its

10.A. advice      B. end            C. chance               D. start

11.A. hardly      B. never          C. always               D. nearly

12.A. dreams      B. experiments  C. jobs              D. difficulties

13.A. excellent   B. dangerous      C. busy                 D. special

14.A. presents    B. friends      C. books              D. grades

15.A. happy         B. sad          C. tired                D. boring

When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I started high school, I had to stop   1  school because my mother had no ___2___ to pay for my school bills.
We started working in people’s gardens to save up enough money  3  me to go back to school. After some time, I returned to school. Unluckily, my mother died the next year. Suddenly my world went  4 . I asked my headmaster  5  I could work for the school so I could pay my bills. He was a nice man and let me  6  in the school garden during the  7 . I had not been able to study well because of my mother’s  8 .   9  the end of my second year,   I  10  most of my exams and was told I would have to repeat (重复) the year. After  11  summer working in the school garden, I went back to lessons again. But suddenly I fell  12 .
Because of my illness, I was weak and couldn’t work at school. I was hopeless. My headmaster told me not to give up (放弃). And my teachers  and  classmates  helped me  a   13  . Now I’m feeling better and will finish my third year.
My life is still not  14  . A few students  15  my poor clothes. They also call me ‘farmer’ because I work in the school garden. But I know I have to do with such problems.

Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old. Mom and I lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that I could walk again if I wanted strongly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school — walking on my own!
When the Great Depression (大萧条) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support  both of us. At that moment, I decided never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I wasn’t satisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they asked me an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for many American families. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never ask extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Of course mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. But with my mother’s support and encouragement, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world — Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income (收入) of $ 1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situation. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
【小题1】According to the writer, who played the most important role in making him walk back to school again?

My mother was a housewife. She thought that successful people spent a lot more time reading than watching TV. So she asked my brother and me not to watch too much TV, but to read two books every week in our free time. She would check them with marks, though she couldn’t read the book at all.
When I went to high school, I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted cool clothes and hung out with friends. I became a C-student, but I didn’t care. One night I complained about not having enough Italian shirts. Then my mother gave me all the money and said I could get the money left to buy shirts if I finished buying all the things the family needed. I was pleased with that, but after I bought those things, there was no money left. I got to know how difficult it was for my mother to do all these. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again. Finally, my dream came true and I became a doctor.
My story is really my mother’s story----a woman with little education greatly changed my life as a parent. So I believe there is no job more important than parenting.
【小题1】What did the writer’s mother do?