题目内容：

    Whenever I felt disappointed I often thought of what my mother had said to me, "Everything happens for the best. If you______, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened but for that previous______. "

As it______, mother was right. In 1932, I ended my college life. ______ that, I had decided to try for a job in radio, and then could work my way up to a sports ______. I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every______－but got turned down every time. In one studio, a ______ lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring a person who lacked ______. "Go to ______ town and find a little station that will give you a chance," she said. I then ______ to Dixon. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted an athlete to ______ its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I ______. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't ______.

My disappointment must have ______. "Everything happens for the best, " Mom ______ me. Then I ______ WOC Radio in Davenport. The program director named Peter MacArthur told me they had already ______ a contract with another announcer.

As I left his office, my disappointment ______ over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow become a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”

I was waiting for the lift when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports? You know something about football?” Then he stood me before a ______and asked me to broadcast a live game.

I often ______ what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward and if I didn't persist.

1.A. look on B. get on C. carry on D. stay on

2.A. successes B. results C. lives D. disappointments

3.A. carried out B. turned out C. figured out D. looked out

4.A. Before B. After C. Since D. Although

5.A. hostess B. athlete C. announcer D. performer

6.A. firm B. school C. store D. station

7.A. beautiful B. strict C. kind D. cruel

8.A. money B. experience C. appearance D. knowledge

9.A. busy B. distant C. big D. small

10.A. turned B. saw C. walked D. added

11.A. buy B. manage C. sell D. show

12.A. applied B. refused C. agreed D. appealed

13.A. employed B. fired C. fitted D. satisfied

14.A. disappeared B. shown C. fallen D. responded

15.A. recited B. persuaded C. advised D. reminded

16.A. tried B. visited C. passed D. poured

17.A. assigned B. signed C. designed D. resigned

18.A. appeared B. disappeared C. boiled D. removed

19.A. radio B. station C. studio D. microphone

20.A. doubted B. intended C. wondered D. expected