题目内容：

For me personally, I could write for days about many different situations where adversity (逆境) __my life. Now let me tell you one experience where I almost let adversity __

We had a glass studio, which was located 50 feet from our home. A couple of years ago we experienced an ___winter; we had a lot of snow and ice. The ___of the ice and snow ___the roof on our studio, taking with it one of our sources of income. ___it did fall down, we got on the roof and tried to ___the snow and ice, but when you have 5 feet of ice and temperatures of minus 20 Celsius, it was pretty ___to do.

We had a partner come in to help us try to ___the roof by supporting. In the end, there was ___that could be done. The roof came down. We had moved a lot of our goods and tools from the studio __ we lost a lot also: glass, kilns, work benches, to name only a few of the items. It was a ___experience.

Here we were in the middle of winter with our studio collapsed. We couldn’t work as we had almost ___all the material in a building we were not using. We could have done one of two things: we could simply say that we can no longer __ our glass business. Let me tell you that this was certainly a thought that __ our mind. Or we could find a way to get our studio back up and running.

We picked the ___option. We had a large barn that we were not using. So we renovated (翻新) the barn, ___our working area and today we have a nicer studio than we __ had. If the adversity we were ___had not happened, we probably would __ be working in the old studio—a studio that was less efficient.

1.A. promoted    B. influenced    C. destroyed    D. prevented

2.A. suffer    B. win    C. escape    D. work

3.A. awful    B. awesome    C. agreeable    D. awkward

4.A. size    B. height    C. temperature    D. weight

5.A. pressed    B. limited    C. collapsed    D. struck

6.A. Unless    B. Before    C. Although    D. When

7.A. replace    B. reduce    C. recycle    D. remove

8.A. worthwhile    B. rewarding    C. tough    D. annoying

9.A. examine    B. test    C. restore    D. secure

10.A. nothing    B. enough    C. all    D. something

11.A. for    B. but    C. or    D. so

12.A. disastrous    B. valid    C. vain    D. treasured

13.A. displayed    B. arranged    C. piled    D. presented

14.A. predict    B. quit    C. instruct    D. conduct

15.A. approached    B. crossed    C. cleared    D. comforted

16.A. former    B. latter    C. easier    D. further

17.A. redesigned    B. evaluated    C. organized    D. reserved

18.A. desperately    B. hopefully    C. eventually    D. previously

19.A. cautious about    B. concerned about    C. faced with    D. aware of

20.A. ever    B. already    C. still    D. even