题目内容：

If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain.

Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to________. “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors. “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the________!” one of the brothers volunteered ________ .

The older boys began to ________, telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was________. After a long silence, one of the________picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and many other kinds of insects. He ________the lid and showed the wonderful________to the scoffing（嘲笑的）visitors. Then he said quietly and ________, “Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look at what we have found________the way!”

Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is________a goal is for — to cause us to move in the ________we have chosen, in other words, to keep us________! But not every goal will be fully ________ . Not every job will end ________. Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be ________. But when you fall________of your aim, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things________ my life because I tried to do something!” It is in the digging ________life is lived. And I believe it is the joy in the journey, in the end, that truly ________.

1.A. watch        B. work            C. rest             D. laugh

2.A. house          B. road           C. wall              D. earth

3.A. calmly         B. excitedly       C. patiently       D. impatiently

4.A. stare          B. think          C. laugh            D. smile

5.A. important      B. impossible     C. difficult         D. interesting

6.A. diggers       B. watchers        C. visitors         D. passers-by

7.A. moved          B. pushed          C. broke           D. removed

8.A. jars           B. scenes         C. pictures         D. contents

9.A. properly       B. happily        C. carefully         D. confidently

10.A. in            B. along           C. to               D. out

11.A. where         B. how           C. what            D. which

12.A. direction     B. way             C. life              D. sight

13.A. thinking     B. digging        C. moving          D. living

14.A. made          B. prepared       C. kicked          D. achieved

15.A. successfully B. pleasantly     C. surprisingly      D. hopelessly

16.A. come true     B. treasured      C. made              D. realized

17.A. out          B. lost            C. short            D. behind

18.A. breaking into B. coming into     C. turning to       D. holding to

19.A. when          B. where           C. which             D. that

20.A. appears       B. happens        C. matters           D. Exists