题目内容：

完形填空(每小题1分，满分15分)

“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of 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 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 of America. 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(雇佣) 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 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. I wanted to go to school to learn English，but it was impossible. I couldn't ___ the schooling(学费). ”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.

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