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NO.29 限时：14分钟 得分：_________ ：___________Vicky is a beautiful, talented and very bright young woman. All through school she made high grades, did well at sports and was much 36 by boys. At college she was voted “ Most 37 to succeed”. After graduation she got a job in a large store. Within months she was 38 for a management training program and made assistant buyer. Vicky’s future looked 39 . But after two years — during which other assistants buyers moved up the ladder — she still hadn’t been 40 . Vicky was puzzled but not 41 . “ The store must have something else 42 for me,” she decided. She was right. “ I’m sorry,” the manager finally told her, “ but you just aren’t working out the 43 we hoped. We’re going to have to let you go.” Vicky left the office, went straight home to bed and stayed there for three weeks. She cried a lot, ate little and 44 slept. The girl most likely to succeed had suffered a complete nervous 45 . “ It was panic,” Vicky told me later. “ Everything had always gone so well for me that I had no experience in dealing with 46 . I just felt my life was over. I was a 47 . Vicky’s experience is an extreme example of a common 48 . In a society that places so much 49 on “ making it”; we assume success is always good, failure always bad. We don’t ask “ What kind of success? 50 at what price? And we fail to recognize that what looks like failure may, in the long run, prove 51 . When Vicky was able to think 52 about why she was fired, 53 , she realized she was simply not suited for a job that 54 dealing with people all the time. In her new 55 as copy editor for a publishing firm, she works independently, is happy and once again “ successful”. 36．A．envied B．admired C．acquired D．inspired 37．A．possible B．probable C．maybe D．likely 38．A．praised B．allowed C．appointed D．received 39．A．bright B．dark C．unknown D．clear 40．A．raised B．admitted C．promoted D．lifted 41．A．exhausted B．discouraged C．encourage