题目内容：

完形填空（共1小题）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was eighteen, I couldn’t wait to get my first job, which meant I made the first step toward adulthood．

But it was difficult to get a work permit．One  ork permits．Although I had night blindness, my vision was clearer during the day, which helped me walk    by myself．Then the doctor began the      ．He looked into my eyes with a bright light．“I  suggest your parents take you to an eye specialist,” he said, “I     you have a retinal(视网膜)   disease．If you do, you’ll never     a day in your life…”

My parents did take me to specialists．After much time and money spent seeking an     result, it was determined that I had an eye disease that slowly       a person of sight．But still, during daylight, I could walk without     ．I could read, but not for hours．My eyes began to    and words slipped off the page when I read more than a few pages．However, no matter how tired my eyes became, I never gave up reading．I knew the     of great writers as well as the most popular music stars．Their words were powerful, which     me to try writing．Soon writing brought me a lot of       each time I completed a paper．

Then an important phone call from an editor changed my life．An article I     appeared in a local newspaper．The newspaper, to my    , continued to print my work．Next, a book series published several of my essays．I got interested in writing and     up with each acceptance．On the pages, readers never knew of my blindness     I chose to present it．For me, finding my voice through writing gave me the pride and satisfaction I     so many years ago．Now, I have numerous essays and articles in   ．

Should I be thanking that misguided doctor? By falsely predicting that I could never work a day, he fueled my       into success．He set the bar too     and focused on what I wouldn’t be able to do．Yet I proved what I could do．

1.A．station       B．company        C．clinic           D．lab

2.A．silently      B．proudly        C．suddenly         D．easily

3.A．operation     B．treatment      C．examination      D．argument

4.A．suspect       B．acknowledge    C．confirm          D．advocate

5.A．rest          B．work           C．live             D．sleep

6.A．urgent        B．obvious        C．accurate         D．ordinary

7.A．reminds       B．robs           C．warns            D．informs

8.A．assistance    B．medicine       C．allowance        D．balance

9.A．dance         B．shine          C．widen            D．tear

10.A．houses       B．habits         C．names            D．addresses

11.A．asked        B．permitted      C．forced           D．encouraged

12.A．pleasure     B．worry          C．trouble          D．stress

13.A．admitted     B．penned         C．wanted           D．described

14.A．shame        B．admiration     C．delight          D．disappointment

15.A．gave         B．lit            C．came             D．put

16.A．although     B．after          C．since            D．unless

17.A．feared       B．sought         C．brought          D．rejected

18.A．mind         B．use            C．time             D．print

19.A．imagination  B．personality    C．motivation       D．responsibility

20.A．low          B．far            C．long             D．close