If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you   1  to do is not the important thing. Let me   2   .

       Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped to   3   .

       “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors.

       “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the earth!” one of the brothers volunteered   4 .

      The older boys began to   5   them, telling the younger ones that was   6   .

       After a long silence, one of the diggers   7   a basin full of spiders, worms and many other kinds of insects. He   8   the lid and showed the wonderful   9   to the visitors.

       Then he said quietly and confidently,“   10   we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look what we found   11   the way!”

       Their goal was far too   12   ,but it did cause them to dig. And that is what a   13   is for—to cause us to move in the   14   we have chosen ; in other words, to set us to digging!

       But not every goal will be fully   15  . Not every job will end   16  . Not every relationship will continue to exist. Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every attempt will be completed. Not every   17   will be realized.

       But   18   you fall short of your aim, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the   19   things which have come into my life because I tried to do something!”

       It is in the digging that life is lived. And I believed it is the   10   in the journey, in the end, that truly matters.

1．A．set out        B．go on             C．set about          D．set off

2．A．organize                   B．explain             C．announce                D．introduce

1,3,5

3．A．research                   B．study        C．watch                     D．discuss

4．A．excitedly            B．unhappily  C．surely                  D．unexpectedly

5．A．fight against       B．laugh at            C．shout to                  D．play with

6．A．interesting          B．useless             C．available           D．impossible

7．A．held on                     B．picked up  C．carried out              D．brought up

8．A．carried                     B．tore                 C．removed                 D．discovered

9．A．spiders                     B．worms             C．insects                    D．contents

10．A．Only if                    B．As if         C．Even if                   D．If only

11．A．in                          B．along        C．by                          D．out of

12．A．satisfactory             B．ambitious  C．exciting                  D．acceptable

13．A．goal                        B．task                 C．sense               D．result

14．A．direction          B．order        C．instruction              D．introduction

15．A．expected                 B．achieved          C．founded                  D．supported

16．A．beautifully        B．attentively C．successfully            D．honestly

17．A．dream                     B．action              C．digging                   D．case

18．A．before                    B．unless              C．when                      D．because

19．A．terrible                    B．wonderful C．strange                   D．reasonable

20．A．laugh               B．scenery            C．humor                    D．joy