"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can  1   ,
one day something good will happen. And you'll  2  that it wouldn't have happened if not for that  3   
disappointment."
Mother was   4  , as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job
in   5  , then work my way up to sports announcer. Ihitchhiked(搭便车) to Chicago and knocked on
the door of every station-and got  6   every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk   7   inexperienced people. "Go out in
the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a  8    ," she said.
I hitchhiked home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and   9   a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since
Dixon was where I had played high school football, I   10  . The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired.
My disappointment   11  have shown. "Everything happens for the  12  ," Mom reminded me. Dad
offered me the car for job hunting. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a
wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired a(n)  13  .
As I left his office, my  14  boiled over. I asked a1oud,"  15  can a fellow get to be a sports
announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"
I was waiting for the elevator  16  I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports?
Do you know anything about football?" Then he let me stand  17  a microphone and asked me to
broadcast an imaginary  18  .
On my way home, as I had many times  19  my graduation, I thought of my mother's words. I often
wonder what   20  my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

(     )1. A. turn on      (     )2. A. hope         (     )3. A. present      (     )4. A. right        (     )5. A. camera       (     )6. A. kept away   (     )7. A. hiring       (     )8. A. choice      (     )9. A. ordered     (     )10. A. meant       (     )11. A. could       (     )12. A. moment     (     )13. A. reporter     (     )14. A. frustration (     )15. A. Why        (     )16. A. when        (     )17. A. upon        (     )18. A. story       (     )19. A. until       (     )20. A. direction

B. get on     B. realize   B. first       B. impolite B. bicycle     B. held on      B. reading     B. step       B. enjoyed       B. happened     B. must         B. extra       B. writer     B. excitement B. What        B. while        B. beyond       B. game       B. later       B. situation

C. carry on   C. recognize   C. recent     C. wrong       C. typewriter C. turned down C. writing     C. measure     C. wanted     C. seemed     C. need       C. heart       C. announcer   C. joy     C. Whether     C. which     C. before     C. memory     C. since       C. position

D. look on     D. prove       D. previous     D. perfect     D. radio       D. left behind D. meeting     D. chance       D. chose       D. applied     D. should       D. best         D. editor       D. surprise     D. How         D. if           D. after       D. bottom       D. ago         D. approach

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