A.French billionaire used to have a rough time when he was young. Later he  21   himself in the field of drawing sales. Within ten years, he had  22   a young media tycoon(大亨) in France. He died of cancer in 1998.

     A French newspaper published his  23   after his death, in which he claimed: “I was a poor guy. Before I reach the threshold(门槛) of heaven, I leave my secret of how to become  24   to the world. Anyone who can answer the question ‘What do the poor  25   most?’ will have discovered my   26    of  becoming rich. He will have my  27   . My deposit(存款） of one million francs in the private safe of my bank will be the prize for his  28    in uncovering the riddle（难解之谜） of   29   .”Many people  30    to the publicized will. The answers, as one might imagine, were  31   . The majority of them thought the poor were missing money most. Some stated that what the poor most  32   was opportunity. Still others thought that the poor needed skills to make money. The rest of the answers claimed that poverty could be attributed to the   33    of help, love, attractiveness, name-brand clothes, and   34   who is in government.

     On the first anniversary of the billionaire’s passing, his lawyer and representatives   35   his private safe in the bank; the secret of getting rich was   36   . The billionaire believed that the most absent among the poor was the   37   of getting rich.

     It was a nine-year-old girl who   38   the nail on the head. Why did she regard “ambition ” as the thing the poor lacked most? The day she was officially   39   the one million francs, she said: “Every time my elder sister brought her boyfriend home, she always  40   me not to be ambitious. So, I thought perhaps ambition was something that brought what you wanted.”

21. A.introduced    B.guided    C.persuaded    D.established

22.A.visited       B.assisted   C.become      D.recognized 

23. A.story        B. will      C.book        D.finding

24.A.rich         B.positive   C.successful    D.determined

25.A.save         B.expect    C.lack         D.achieve

26.A.cost         B.secret     C.reason       D.effort 

27.A.position      B.ideas     C.dreams       D.congratulations

28.A.wisdom      B.skill      C.courage      D.honesty

29.A.privacy      B.adventure  C.poverty      D.mystery

30.A.applied      B.responded  C.admitted     D.contributed

31.A.various      B.incorrect   C.creative      D.related

32.A.cared       B.valued     C.needed       D.shared

33.A.presence     B.absence    C.rejection     D.dependence

34.A.even        B.still       C.so           D.yet

35.A.collected    B.discovered  C.locked       D.opened

36.A.discussed    B.explored   C.revealed      D.hidden

37.A.idea        B.ambition    C.luck         D.opportunity 

38.A.missed      B.lost        C.hit          D.decided

39.A.awarded     B.received    C.returned     D.donated

40.A.agreed      B.warned     C.promised     D.supported

I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've      that the best way to do it is (to) let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully      today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never      while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The      is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!

I once       a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend      Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her      son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He      he was racing those cars around a great track, which in      was an imaginary circle around a golden statue. The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable      for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.

When his mother told him the time had come to      , the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this？”      to the Oscar.

“Sure,” he smiled. “It's yours.”

The horrified mother       . “Put that back immediately！”

Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me;       it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a       hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to     , rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.

You may have learned to let go of past       and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the      ？Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?

“I like the       of the future better than the history of the past，” said Thomas Jefferson. I      . After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.

1.A.discovered　               B. inferred                  C. preferred             D. worried

2.A.spend                           B. live                         C. affect                    D. enjoy

3.A.struggle             B. work                       C. succeed                D. concentrate

4.A.story                             B. fact                        C. idea                       D. figure

5.A.wrote                           B. told                        C. knew            D. heard

6.A.saw                      B. recognized   C. met              D. visited

7.A.careful                B. small                        C. lonely                    D. clever

8.A.pretended                  B. believed                 C. insisted                 D. suggested

9.A.fact                      B. case                        C. turn             D. need

10.A.cared                         B. asked                       C. won                       D. looked

11.A.act                              B. leave                       C. play                        D. wait

12.A.running            B. getting                     C. pointing                D. shouting

13.A.shouted                     B. noticed                  C. suffered                D. breathed

14.A.selling               B. keeping                   C. earning                 D. sharing

15.A.special              B. comfortable          C. expensive  D. necessary

16.A.rest                            B. cheat                       C. stop                       D. sit

17.A.difficulties                 B. events                     C. failures              D. achievements

18.A.time                           B. future                      C. body             D. brain

19.A.idea                            B. meaning                  C. dreams                  D. thoughts

20.A.obey                          B. permit                    C. wish              D. agree