“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) 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（雇佣） 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(学费). 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. 小题1: A．disaster B．loss C．success D．pity 小题2: A．life B．fashion C．danger D．history 小题3: A．famous B．lucky C．rich D．born 小题4: A．taught B．worked C．studied D．slept 小题5: A．until B．towards C．for D．during 小题6: A．experience B．energy C．time D．money 小题7: A．kind B．poor C．strong D．lazy 小题8: A．What B．How C．Why D．When 小题9: A．discover B．make C．collect D．spend 小题10: A．little B．good C．much D．excellent 小题11: A．giving B．running C．washing D．receiving 小题12: A．comfortable B．cheerful C．nice D．hard 小题13: A．borrow B．need C．afford D．pay 小题14: A．kept B．finished C．minded D．stopped 小题15: A．really B．easily C．quietly D．slowly