2014届高考英语二轮专题复习精选：完形填空89.docVIP

2014届高考英语二轮专题复习精选：完形填空 1.完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 Each time I was feeling disappointed, my mother would say to me “ Tomorrow will be another day. If you can 36 on, some day something nice will happen. And you will come to know that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous 37 .” What mother said was absolutely right, as I 38 after my graduation from college. I had made up my mind to try for a 39 in radio, then 40 my way up to sports announcer. I went to Springfield and knocked on the door of each station—and got 41 each time. In one studio, a warm-hearted woman told me that 42 stations couldn’t risk employing a(n) 43 person. “ Please go out to the faraway or lonely district and find a small station which will give you a 44 ,” she said. I came back home to St-Louis. While there were no radio-announcing jobs in St-Louis, my father said Wards Holding Corporation had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its 45 department. Since St-Louis was where I had played high school football, I 46 . The job sounded just 47 for me. But I wasn’t employed. My disappointment must have 48 . “Tomorrow will be another day,” Mom 49 me. I tried WOC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The program director, Jack Green, told me they had already hired an 50 . As I went away from his office, my frustration boiled over (爆发). I asked 51 , “How can a young man get to be a sports announcer if he cannot get a job in a radio station?” I was just patiently waiting for the elevator 52 I heard Jack Green calling, “What did you say about sports just now? You mean you know something about football?” Then he stood me 53 a microphone and told me to 54 an imaginary game. On the way to my home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words. From time to time I 55 what direction my life might have taken if I had had the job