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The following is a true story. It shows that potential discovered may lead to success. A young man
traveled by train. As it was running across a__
1__, passengers looked out of the__
2__idly and
aimlessly. When the train came near a bend it__
3__and then an unadorned (简陋的) house came
into__
4__. It was so obvious__
5__the deserted landscape that everybody on the train began to
"__
6__" it with their eyes wide open. Some passengers__
7__began a discussion about it.
The young man was also__
8__by the scene. On his return he__
9__the train at the nearest station
and found his__
10__to the house. Its__
11__told him that troubled by the__
12__of the train he wanted
to sell the house but__
13__would buy it.
Soon the young man__
14__three thousand dollars for the house, regarding it as a__
15__site for
advertisement. It was facing the railway__
16__where the train had to slow down and the__
17__
passengers would cast their eyes at the house to__
18__themselves. He managed to get__
19__to big
companies and tried his best to convince them of the advantage of the place for__
20__. Finally the
CocaCola Company took a lease on (租用) it to put up promotion signs. The young man was paid
180 thousand dollars for a threeyear rent.
( )1. A. ity ( )2. A. cindows ( )3. A. wroke down ( )4. A. being ( )5. A. bgainst ( )6. A. anjoy ( )7. A. ever ( )8. A. excited ( )9. A. eot in ( )10. A. gay ( )11. A. wloser ( )12. A. sound ( )13. A. nobody ( )14. A. cost ( )15. A. favorable ( )16. A. station ( )17. A. tired ( )18. A. express ( )19. A. close ( )20. A. promotion |
B. station B. houses B. turned down B. view B. on B. hear B. even B. expressed B. got out B. path B. employer B. noise B. none B. paid B. wrong B. track B. excited B. enjoy B. access B. production |
C. tunnel C. rooms C. slowed down C. use C. for C. inspect C. still C. shocked C. got off C. road C. boss C. voice C. nothing C. spent C. best C. carriage C. moved C. refresh C. down C. sale |
D. wilderness D. planes D. put down D. effect D. to D. see D. yet D. impressed D. put off D. means D. owner D. saying D. someone D. took D. just D. bend D. delighted D. seat D. up D. advertisement |