“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of my life. It has brought me   16  . I learned the law from my father’s   17  story.
My father was  18  in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then   19  in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework   20  midnight. Life was hard, because they had no   21  !
At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where   22  people can become rich.
“   23   don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.
So , my father came to America. “ I had thought it was easy to   24  money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire（雇佣） me because I spoke   25  English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables,  26  dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was   27  for the first few years. I worked from 10a.m to 11p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t  28   the schooling(学费).
My father   29  working hard, and reached his goal.
“Alan,” he often says to me, “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come   30  in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

小题1:	A．disaster B．loss C．success D．pity

小题2:	A．life B．fashion C．danger D．history

小题3:	A．famous B．lucky C．rich D．born

小题4:	A．taught B．worked C．studied D．slept

小题5:	A．until B．towards C．for D．during

小题6:	A．experience B．energy C．time D．money

小题7:	A．kind B．poor C．strong D．lazy

小题8:	A．What B．How C．Why D．When

小题9:	A．discover B．make C．collect D．spend

小题10:

A．little B．good C．much D．excellent

小题11:

A．giving B．running C．washing D．receiving

小题12:

A．comfortable B．cheerful C．nice D．hard

小题13:

A．borrow B．need C．afford D．pay

小题14:

A．kept B．finished C．minded D．stopped

小题15:

A．really B．easily C．quietly D．slowly