题目内容：

A few days ago my family and I were out for an evening walk. As we headed home, dark _____ started rolling in and we knew we probably wouldn’t make it back without getting wet. _____ enough, the rain started falling just as we______ our neighborhood. We all ____ down the street and into the house but when we got there I noticed that one of my sons was _______ I went back out in the rain and found him  _____ in an irregular pattern in front of the house. His face was one of ______as he seemed to be going in circles. This is my child that usually hates getting _____.

I shouted to him, “What are you doing?!!”

“I hate getting wet!” he _____ back.

“Then why are you running around in the _____ ? Hurry inside!”

“I’m trying to but I have to _____ the rain drops!”

He was getting more wet than any of the rest of us _____ he was trying to avoid the raindrops. As I went and put him _____ my arm and walked him inside, I realized that there is a good_______in this story.

How often do you_______life “avoiding the raindrops”? How often do you get so worried about the little _____that might happen, the failures that you miss out on the great _____ that you could be having? We can spend all of our time running around in circles trying not to fail or we can accept that failure is going to come and ______forward anyway. Any happy and successful person will tell you that the road to success is  _____with failures.

But every time you fail, you learn. Every time you learn, you improve. The more you improve, the more ______ you will be.

1.A. buses    B. clouds    C. mosquitoes    D. smoke

2.A. Sure    B. Anxious    C. Strange    D. Funny

3.A. surrounded    B. noticed    C. crossed    D. entered

4.A. paced    B. escaped    C. hurried    D. advanced

5.A. missing    B. outstanding    C. disturbing    D. charming

6.A. jumping    B. trembling    C. running    D. sliding

7.A. happiness    B. pleasure    C. excitement    D. suffering

8.A. cold    B. wet    C. hungry    D. thirsty

9.A. screamed    B. waved    C. turned    D. looked

10.A. distance    B. darkness    C. rain    D. wind

11.A. collect    B. experience    C. fight    D. avoid

12.A. because    B. though    C. unless    D. if

13.A. with    B. under    C. by    D. beside

14.A. ending    B. plot    C. lesson    D. theme

15.A. care about    B. rely on    C. sort out    D. go through

16.A. failures    B. accidents    C. emergencies    D. disasters

17.A. pains    B. dangers    C. diseases    D. adventures

18.A. float    B. wander    C. move    D. flow

19.A. equipped    B. paved    C. buried    D. covered

20.A. successful    B. generous    C. considerate    D. intelligent