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If you have ever been discouraged because of failure,please read on.For often,achieving what you__1__
to do is not the important thing.Let me explain.
Two brothers decided to dig a__2__hole behind their house.As they were working,a couple of older
boys stopped by to__3__.
"What are you doing?"asked one of the visitors.
"We plan to dig a hole all the way through the earth!" one of the brothers__4__excitedly.
The older boys began to laugh,__5__the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth
was__6__.After a long__7__,one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders,worms and a wide variety of insects.He__8__the lid and showed the wonderful contents to the scoffing (嘲笑)__9__.
Then he said quietly and__10__,"Even if we don't dig all the way through the earth,look what we have
found along the way!"
Their__11__was far too ambitious,but it did__12__them to dig.And that is what a goal is for-to cause us to move in the__13__we have chosen; __14__to set us to digging!
But not every goal will be fully__15__.Not every job will end successfully.Not every relationship will endure.Not every hope will come to pass.Not every love will last.Not every endeavor will be completed.Not
every dream will be__16__.
But when you__17__your aim,perhaps you can say,"Yes,__18__look at what I found along the way!
Look at the wonderful things which have come into my life because I tried to do something!"
It is in the__19__that life is lived.And I believe it is joy in the journey,in the end,that truly__20__.

(     )1. A.look forward   (     )2. A.wide         (     )3. A.watch         (     )4. A.whispered     (     )5. A.expressing   (     )6. A.unnecessary   (     )7. A.silence       (     )8. A.folded       (     )9. A.volunteers   (     )10. A.confidently   (     )11. A.idea         (     )12. A.make         (     )13. A.decision     (     )14. A.as a result   (     )15. A.achieved     (     )16. A.predicted   (     )17. A.correspond to (     )18. A.but         (     )19. A.searching   (     )20. A.regards

B. set out     B. deep         B. discuss     B. commented   B. explaining   B. impossible   B. intention   B. covered     B. hunters     B. curiously   B. thought     B. expect      B. feeling     B. in other words B. absorbed     B. grasped     B. head for     B. so           B. digging     B. proves

C. set about     C. large         C. introduce     C. lectured     C. telling       C. unbelievable   C. recreation     C. removed       C. contributors   C. immediately   C. goal         C. cause         C. chance       C. now and then   C. controlled   C. realized     C. live up to   C. and           C. arranging     C. occurs

D. give in       D. shallow       D. instruct     D. volunteered   D. arguing       D. incorrect     D. imagination   D. deleted       D. visitors     D. strictly     D. belief       D. force         D. direction     D. all the way   D. decided       D. depended     D. fall short of D. or           D. discovering   D. matters

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