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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 (嘲笑的)
__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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