“Never give up!” It is my law(法則) of my life. It has brought me
16 . I learned the law from my father’s
17 story.
My father was 18 in a poor village
in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to school
in the morning, then 19 in the fields till sunset. And
then he did his homework 20 midnight. Life was hard,
because they had no 21 !
At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States
of America. It was the land of gold, the land where
22 people can become rich.
“ 23 don’t I go to
America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.
So , my father came to America. “ I had thought it was
easy to 24 money in America,” he told me. “But
when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire（雇傭） me because I spoke 25 English.
Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, 26 dishes
and sweeping the floor. Life was 27 for the first
few years. I worked from 10a.m to 11p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn
English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t 28 the
schooling(學費).
My father 29 working
hard, and reached his goal.
“Alan,” he often says to me, “If you want something,
you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come 30 in
life.” That is what I learned from my father.
1. A．disaster B．loss C．success D．pity
2. A．life B．fashion C．danger D．history
3. A．famous B．lucky C．rich D．born
4. A．taught B．worked C．studied D．slept
5. A．until B．towards C．for D．during
6. A．experience B．energy C．time D．money
7. A．kind B．poor C．strong D．lazy
8. A．What B．How C．Why D．When
9. A．discover B．make C．collect D．spend
10. A．little B．good C．much D．excellent
11. A．giving B．running C．washing D．receiving
12. A．comfortable B．cheerful C．nice D．hard
13. A．borrow B．need C．afford D．pay
14. A．kept B．finished C．minded D．stopped
15. A．really B．easily C．quietly D．slowly
