题目内容：

    Tom was a middle-aged leather trader (皮货商) whose repeated _______ in career made him a depressed man, often complaining that he had been _______ by others. One day he told his wife he was so disappointed with the city that he had to _______.

So his family _______ another city. It was the evening of a weekend. When Tom and his wife were busily tidying up their new home, the light suddenly went out. Tom was _______ to have forgotten to _______ candles and had to _______ helplessly in a low mood. Just then he _______ light, hesitant knocks on his door that were _______ audible (听到) in the quiet night.

"Who's it? " he ____________, since Tom was a ____________ to this city. And this was the moment he especially ____________ to be disturbed, so he went to the door and opened it violently. At the door was a little girl, ____________ asking, "Sir, do you have candles? I'm your ____________." "No," answered Tom in anger and shut the door ____________. "What a nuisance (麻烦事)!" He complained over it with his wife. "No sooner had we ____________ than the neighbor came to borrow things."

After a while, the door was ____________ again by someone. He found the same girl outside. But this time she was holding two candles, saying, "My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might need candles. She sent me here to give you these." Tom was very ____________ by what he saw. At that moment he ____________ realized what caused his failure in life. It was his coldness with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was nobody else but himself, for his eyes had been ____________ by his unsympathetic mind.

1.A.failure B.success C.trouble D.difficulty

2.A.annoyed B.cheated C.abandoned D.hurt

3.A.quit B.stop C.leave D.resign

4.A.paid a visit to B.moved to C.came across D.ran into

5.A.careful B.satisfied C.regretful D.mad

6.A.light up B.put out C.sold out D.bring along

7.A.hope B.wait C.listen D.watch

8.A.gathered B.recognized C.counted D.heard

9.A.possibly B.noisily C.rarely D.clearly

10.A.wished B.imagined C.wondered D.commented

11.A.trader B.local C.newcomer D.passer-by

12.A.fancied B.hated C.wanted D.started

13.A.shyly B.proudly C.hopefully D.coldly

14.A.friend B.housekeeper C.messenger D.neighbor

15.A.gently B.kindly C.impatiently D.sadly

16.A.turned up B.stayed up C.came around D.settled down

17.A.opened B.shut C.knocked D.closed

18.A.upset B.amused C.thrilled D.astonished

19.A.suddenly B.gradually C.particularly D.normally

20.A.widened B.removed C.clouded D.narrowed