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On a cold winter day, I waited in line to see my hero, Jack Canfield, the author of
TheSuccessPrinciples
During his talk, Jack__
1__his wallet, pulled out a hundreddollar bill, and said, "Who wants this?"
__
2__shot up in the audience; people leaned forward to see whom Jack would__
3_.But I jumped up,
ran up the__
4__to the stage, and grabbed the bill.As I was launching myself in the air, thoughts__
5 _
through my mind-was I about to be humiliated (羞辱) in front of 800 people?Would they__
6__security
guards and take me from the stage?__
7__my desire for bold action was louder than any__
8__voice.
As I got the bill from his hand, he said, "That's it!We can't wait for the__
9__to come to us.We must
take action to__
10__what we want!"
After his talk, I managed to formally meet Jack and boldly asked for his__
11__email address.Over
the next months, I sent him emails__
12__my vision and dreams with him.He kindly emailed back lots of
encouragement.But my life got__
13__with other things.I stopped emailing Jack.
A year later, my dreams had worn away.I thought Jack would inspire me into action, like a giant
__
14__that would show me the way.
I emailed him, and then again-but got no__
15__.As I sat down at my computer to check my emails,
I__
16__woke up.What was I doing?I was waiting!Now I remembered the crowd, most likely__
17__
that hundreddollar bill, while they sat__
18__to their chairs.
Usually we all have a "Jack" for whom we wait-whether it's a person, a place or a thing.We__
19__
believe the gifts of life are just around the corner, and that everything will come in a(n)__
20_way.So we
don't try.We give up.But as Wayne Gretzky said:"You'll always miss 100% of the opportunities you don't
take!" So I stopped waiting and started my writing career.
Now what are you waiting for?
( )1. A. stretched out ( )2. A. Cheers ( )3. A. offer ( )4. A. path ( )5. A. raced ( )6. A. ask ( )7. A. And ( )8. A. careful ( )9. A. opportunities ( )10. A. attract ( )11. A. professional ( )12. A. disclosing ( )13. A. quick ( )14. A. arrow ( )15. A. news ( )16. A. gradually ( )17. A. desiring ( )18. A. lost ( )19. A. sincerely ( )20. A. difficult |
B. reached for B. Shouts B. greet B. road B. started B. call B. So B. doubtful B. times B. accept B. secret B. describing B. busy B. gate B. notice B. suddenly B. claiming B. glued B. honestly B. impressive |
C. stuck to C. Heads C. like C. steps C. appeared C. demand C. But C. meaningful C. results C. restore C. public C. presenting C. full C. exit C. response C. immediately C. begging C. opposed C. falsely C. early |
D. handed in D. Hands D. choose D. route D. existed D. order D. Or D. helpful D. aims D. create D. personal D. sharing D. loose D. entrance D. reaction D. slowly D. worshiping D. devoted D. correctly D. natural |