“Never give up!” It is my law of my life. It has brought me ____. I learned the law from my father’s ____ story. My father was ___ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to a school in the morning, then ____ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework ____ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no ____! At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States. It was the land of gold, the land where ___ people can become rich. “____ 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 ___ money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire me because I spoke _____ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, _____ dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ____ for the first few years. I worked from 10am to 11pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t ___ the schooling.” My father __ 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____ 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．toward 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