题目内容：

At the age of nine, I was taking swimming lessons at a pool. The day had arrived when I was to be tested to see if I could   _____ to a higher level class.

Fifteen of us were to  ______swimming from one side of the pool to the other and back. I watched as my   ___ , one by one, tried and failed. Then it was my turn to  ____ , I mean, my turn to attempt to pass the test. I was about halfway when I got ____ . I immediately stopped and _____ the side of the pool, ending my test. Our instructor, a college student, was standing   ___ me. “Why did you stop?” he yelled, in a less-than   ______voice. “I got water in my nose,” I   _____ . That’s when this college student   _____ me one of life’s great lessons,   ____  he probably never realized that. Bending down, he shouted, “So?”  “So?” The  _____ shocked me. It had just seemed  _____ to me that the answer to pain was to remove the thing causing the ____. My nine-year-old brain had not understood the fact that a valuable_____is worth achieving, however difficult to get there. Recognizing that, I was _____ nothing would keep me from completing the test. In fact, I did it rather   ______on my next attempt. Seeing me  _____ the test, almost all the others did so as well.

Life is a journal, and the road won’t  _____ be easy. We have to focus on the final destination, not the  ______ along the road.

1.A. skip    B. refer    C. advance    D. add

2.A. take turns    B. insist on    C. take risks    D. put off

3.A. competitors    B. classmates    C. students    D. instructors

4.A. show    B. leave    C. fail    D. observe

5.A. injured    B. blamed    C. trapped    D. choked

6.A. pushed    B. pressed    C. grabbed    D. controlled

7.A. above    B. below    C. beside    D. beyond

8.A. surprised    B. sympathetic    C. annoyed    D. cold

9.A. explained    B. reacted    C. declined    D. urged

10.A. delivered    B. owed    C. taught    D. promised

11.A. so that    B. as if    C. in case    D. even if

12.A. problem    B. excuse    C. question    D. voice

13.A. logical    B. illegal    C. ridiculous    D. impossible

14.A. disaster    B. discomfort    C. damage    D. fear

15.A. result    B. advantage    C. goal    D. task

16.A. concerned    B. sensitive    C. embarrassed    D. sure

17.A. slowly    B. easily    C. clumsily    D. eagerly

18.A. attend    B. take    C. give    D. pass

19.A. always    B. sometimes    C. ever    D. seldom

20.A. sights    B. barriers    C. surprises    D. harvests