题目内容：

Walt Disney invented a special word to replace persistence and determination, and he named it as sticktoitivity. The ______ of people are so afraid of failure that they don’t know the Japanese have a fascinating way of looking at ______ . Their saying “Fall seven times; stand up eight” is a(n)______ explanation to sticktoitivity!

A good friend of mine has a business on which he has ______ diligently for over five years. He knows that his business has the potential (潜能) to increase sales ten times.  ______ , to do so, he has to probably break the mold (打破常规) that ______ him unchanged, and create a different blueprint. He ______ gives up his dream, and he is a(n)  ______ of sticktoitivity!

The basketball star Michael Jordan ______ sticktoitivity in one of his shoe advertisements, “‘I’ve missed more than nine thousand shots in my ______. I've lost almost three hundred games. I’ve been trusted to get a shot for twenty-six times but I  ______ . I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is ______ I succeed.”

We also know some examples of ______ people who demonstrated (证明) that they understood “sticktoitivity.” For example, Steven Spielberg ______ high school in the first year. He was persuaded to come back and was ______ in a learning disabled class. He lasted a month and dropped out of school forever. Who could ______ that he would become a most famous director in the US at that time?

Have you ever defined “success” or “failure” on your own terms? I ______ recommend doing so. It certainly creates a sense of understanding in your life. Sometimes ______is learning how to fail. Sometimes success is ______ the obstacles leading to failure. Remember, the only failure is learning ______ from the experience. So it’s important for you to stand up on the eighth time!

1.A. number    B. majority    C. population    D. group

2.A. situation    B. energy    C. ability    D. failure

3.A. wonderful    B. different    C. difficult    D. exciting

4.A. studied    B. researched    C. worked    D. acted

5.A. Therefore    B. However    C. Anyway    D. Otherwise

6.A. helped    B. noticed    C. made    D. raised

7.A. never    B. seldom    C. often    D. sometimes

8.A. memorial    B. example    C. celebrity    D. purpose

9.A. reflected    B. mentioned    C. used    D. stated

10.A. life    B. chance    C. career    D. event

11.A. win    B. miss    C. play    D. fall

12.A. why    B. when    C. where    D. because

13.A. strange    B. lucky    C. clever    D. famous

14.A. gave up    B. got to    C. dropped out of    D. kept away from

15.A. sent    B. placed    C. brought    D. moved

16.A. tell    B. look    C. read    D. notice

17.A. hardly    B. partly    C. highly    D. perfectly

18.A. opportunity    B. luck    C. truth    D. success

19.A. realizing    B. overcoming    C. causing    D. understanding

20.A. anything    B. something    C. nothing    D. everything