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暑假作业19 姓名 班级学号 完成日期 家长签字 一 完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 For most people, graduation is an exciting day, but my graduation day was not. I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to ??1? ?the celebration. But just like everyone else in my class, I had watched the ??2 ??turn from bad to worse in my senior year. Almost all of us graduates had degrees, but very ??uncertain ??3? . The weeks ahead weren’t ??4? . I knew my small university town couldn’t offer me any opportunities, ??5? ?I packed up my car and drove to Southern California to find work. But what I thought would take a ??6? ?dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same ??7? ?as I was before. You know that feeling when you wake up in ??8? ? That feeling became a constant in my life. Days felt like weeks, weeks like months, and those many months felt like everlasting ??9? . And the most annoying part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn’t seem to make any ??10? . So what did I do to keep my good sense? I decided to ??11? . Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer — a little brighter. Something about writing gave me ??12? . And if you want something badly enough, sometimes a little hope is all you ??13? ! I put my ??14? ?into a children’s book. Beyond the River was the story of an unlikely hero, a little fish, who ??15? ?to give up his dream. And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world — just a lot of hard work and determination — I was offered a ??16? ?contract (合同) for my first book! After that, things slowly began to fall into ??17? . I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and was ??18? ?shortly after. Don’t give up. Even if things look ??19? ?now, don’t