题目内容：

For most people, graduation day is exciting. My graduation day, _______ was not.

I remember that weekend two years ago. My family and my friends had come to watch our class walk across that _______. But like everyone in my graduating class, I had watched the economy _______from bad to worse during my senior year. We graduates had _______ but very limited prospects(前景). Numerous applications were _______ and I knew that the next day, when my lease(租约)ended，I would no longer have a place to _______ “home”.

The weeks _______ were not easy. I drove to California to find work. But what I thought would _______ me a week dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself _______ I was before.

Days _______ like weeks, weeks like months and those many months seemed _______. The most ______ part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn’t seem to make any _______.

Then I began to write. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer – a little brighter. Something about writing gave me _______.

I put my frustration into a children’s _______, one story of which was about a(n) ______, a little fish, who, fighting in a “river”, _______ to give up his dream. I kept on writing. And then one day, _______ any sort of writing degree or contracts in the writing world – just a lot of hard work and perseverance – I was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things began to be in _______ soon. I was offered a second book deal. Then a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.

The lesson of the story: Work hard, give it time and don’t give up. Often our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream. All we need is the _______ to push beyond the “river”.

1.A. therefore    B. however    C. otherwise    D. besides

2.A. period    B. moment    C. stage    D. line

3.A. go    B. become    C. keep    D. appear

4.A. exams    B. papers    C. documents    D. degrees

5.A. successes    B. surprises    C. wonders    D. failures

6.A. live    B. call    C. stay    D. move

7.A. ahead    B. early    C. before    D. ago

8.A. give    B. pay    C. take    D. spend

9.A. who    B. where    C. what    D. how

10.A. followed    B. floated    C. fell    D. felt

11.A. meaningless    B. helpless    C. endless    D. hopeless

12.A. interesting    B. surprising    C. amazing    D. frustrating

13.A. effort    B. progress    C. sense    D. affect

14.A. hope    B. dream    C. future    D. strength

15.A. story    B. magazine    C. book    D. journal

16.A. hero    B. poet    C. writer    D. actor

17.A. replied    B. responded    C. returned    D. refused

18.A. without    B. except    C. through    D. among

19.A. sight    B. action    C. place    D. order

20.A. love    B. courage    C. sympathy    D. kindness