2014高考英语完形填空15.docVIP

完形填空 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后个题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother. I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father__1__me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is___2 for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___3 than tomorrow morning.” My stepmother walked over to me, ___4 my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are ___5 .This is not the worst boy at all, ___6 the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm.” That statement began a(n) ___ between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my ___8 as a bad boy . My stepmother changed all that. She changed many things. She ___9 my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county srat, where my father’s career could be more ___10 and my brother and I could be better___11 . When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand___12 and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her ernthusiasm,I___13 it had already improved our lives. I accepted her ___14 and began to write for local newspapers .I was doing the same kind of___15 that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the __16 beneficiary (受益者).My father became the _ man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president. What power __18 has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is ___19 strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible（不可抗拒的）force which poverty and temporary defeat can never ___ . You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work