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先通讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根據短文內容和所給首字母，在空格內填入一個適當的詞，使短文意思完整。

If you lose 12 times, will you just give up? Dale Carnegie, a pioneer in public speaking and self-development, kept t 1.. And he became famous by showing people how to be successful.

Carnegie was born in 1888 in a poor farming family in the central United States. The boy didn’t see a train u 2.he was 12 years old. In his teens, he had to get up at 4 am. every day to milk the cows in his family.

When Carnegie first entered college, he felt h 3.because of his clothes and common looks. His mother encouraged him: “Why not try to be better in other things i 4.of just dress and good looks?”

Carnegie tried to be more a 5.in college. He joined the debate(辯論) team. But one after a 6., he lost 12 times. The young man was disappointed(失望的) in himself. He said later that he thought of killing himself after so many failures.

But soon Carnegie was s 7. practicing public speaking on the riverside. His hard work brought good r 8. at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech contest(比賽) and became well-known.

The young man made his own words come true: “Bthat you will succeed, and you will.” In order to s 9. his success, Carnegie opened schools and wrote books. His best-sellers(暢銷書) include How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. More than 50 million c 10.of his books have been printed in 38 languages. They are still helping people on the road to success.

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