If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on.For often, achieving what you __41__ to do is not the important thing.Let me explain.
Two brothers decided to dig a __42__ hole behind their house.As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to __43__.
“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 __44__ excitedly.
The older boys began to laugh, __45__ the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was __46__.After a long __47__, one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and a wide variety of insects.He __48__ the lid and showed the wonderful contents to the scoffing (嘲笑的) __49__.
Then he said quietly and __50__, “Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look what we have found along the way!”
Their __51__ was far too ambitious, but it did __52__ them to dig.And that is what a goal is for ---- to cause us to move in the __53__ we have chosen; __54__ to set us to digging!
But not every goal will be fully __55__.Not every job will end successfully.Not every relationship will endure.Not every hope will come to pass.Not every love will last.Not every endeavor will be completed.Not every dream will be __56__.
But when you __57__ your aim, perhaps you can say, “Yes, __58__ look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things which have come into my life because I tried to do something!”
It is in the __59__ that life is lived.And I believe it is joy in the journey, in the end , that truly __60__.
41.A.look forward B.set out C.set about D.give in
42.A.wide B.deep C.large D.shallow
43.A.watch B.discuss C.introduce D.instruct
44.A.whispered B.commented C.lectured D.volunteered
45.A.expressing B.explaining C.telling D.arguing
46.A.unnecessary B.impossible C.unbelievable D.incorrect
47.A.silence B.intention C.recreation D.imagination
48.A.folded B.covered C.removed D.deleted
49.A.volunteers B.hunters C.contributors D.visitors
50.A.confidently B.curiously C.immediately D.strictly
51.A.idea B.thought C.goal D.belief
52.A.make B.expect C.cause D.force
53.A.decision B.feeling C.chance D.direction
54.A.as a result B.in other words C.now and then D.all the way
55.A.achieved B.absorbed C.controlled D.decided
56.A.predicted B.grasped C.realized D.depended
57.A.correspond to B.head for C.live up to D.fall short of
58.A.but B.so C.and D.or
59.A.searching B.digging C.arranging D.discovering
60.A.regards B.proves C.occurs D.matters
40.-- Hi, Hugh.Do you still smoke?
-- _____.It’s two years since I smoked.
A.No, I don’t B.Yes, I do
C.Not too much D.Oh, yes, but I wish I didn’t
39.The country has already sent up three unmanned spaceship, the most recent _____ at the end of last March.
A.has been launched B.having been launched
C.being launched D.to be launched
38.The French News Agency _____ a statement from the Trade Minister this morning.
A.put through B.put off
C.put up D.put out
37.You can’t imagine what great trouble they have _____ the problem _____.
A.to solve; being discussed B.solving; discussing
C.to solve; to discuss D.solving; being discussed
36.-- What do you think of this dress, darling?
-- Er…sorry, dear.I _____.What did you say?
A.didn’t listen B.hadn’t listened
C.haven’t listened D.wasn’t listening
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