完形填空 On the first day of my school life in the USA, I showed a great interest in my marketing class. My teacher, Mrs. Tolman, suggested I  __ 1 __  a national marketing club called DECA attracting many students with talent and interest in  __ 2 __. So I did. The first  __ 3 __  was to raise money for the marketing competition later in the year by selling candles. Mrs. Tolman said the competition was due in a week and that 40 percent of the  __ 4 __ would go into my personal account. At the beginning, I tried to sell some candles to my host mom. She said that if I could   __ 5 __ confidence and do a wonderful sales presentation, she would certainly buy some. I started my  __ 6 __ with a firm handshake. Then I introduced all the different kinds of candles and the special sales I could offer and  __ 7 __  her that our candles were the best choices for gifts and home decorations. Finally she bought three candles. Greatly  __ 8 __  I decided to sell my candles around the neighborhood. On Saturday morning, with great courage, I knocked at the door of my first potential  __ 9 __. 'I'm a student at Skyline High School and we are __ 10 __  money for DECA. I'm trying to sell...' 'Not today, sorry, '  the man interrupted me and __ 11 __  the door. Embarrassed, I walked away and said to myself the __ 12 __ thing that might happen was being refused like that again. I couldn't even count how many times I was __ 13 __  with reasons like 'Not today' , 'I don't have any __ 14 __ money right now' or 'I just bought some'. __ 15 __, I had to continue with the day. __ 16 __, a woman kindly bought nearly  $ 60 worth of candles. I couldn't even hide my __ 17 __  and said 'Thank you very much' to her with a bow. After a  __ 18 __  hard work, I turned in my $408 worth of sales of candles, which gave me $163 in my own account. I was __ 19 __  to find out I was the second highest seller in all classes. It was the first time that I had worked as a sales person. This experience let me know that __ 20 __ difficulties was only wasting time and a barrier in my way to success. (     )1. A. hold (     )2. A. business (     )3. A. chance (     )4. A. income (     )5. A. express (     )6. A. presentation (     )7. A. told (     )8. A. puzzled (     )9. A. buyer (     )10. A. lending (     )11. A. opened (     )12. A. worst (     )13. A. allowed (     )14. A. more (     )15. A. However (     )16. A. So (     )17. A. anger (     )18. A. week's (     )19. A. puzzled (     )20.A. overcoming B. join B. English B. way B. candles B. show B. business B. convinced B. surprised B. seller B. raising B. knocked B. uneasy B. permitted B. extra B. So B. Secondly B. embarrassment B. hour's B. surprised B. dealing with C. build C. math C. challenge C. business C. make C. club C. explained C. shocked C. business man C. returning C. burst into C. best C. refused C. little C. Therefore C. Firstly C. happiness C. year's C. calm C. accepting D. set D. sports D. choice D. expense D. expect D. interest D. requested D. encouraged D. shop keeper D. borrowing D. shut D. unhappiest D. demanded D. left D. For D. Finally D. sad D. month's D. lucky D. worrying about