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  3. Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother. I was

Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother. I was

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问题     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【C1】______me to her with these words: "I would like you to meet the fellow who is【C2】______for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no【C3】______than tomorrow morning."
    My stepmother walked over to me,【C4】______my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, "You are【C5】______. This is not the worst boy at all,【C6】______the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet (释放的途径) for his enthusiasm."
    That statement began a(n)【C7】______between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my【C8】______as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
    She changed many things. She【C9】______my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more【C10】______and my brother and I could be better【C11】______.
    When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand【C12】______and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I【C13】______it, and I saw how it had improved our lives. I accepted her【C14】______and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of【C15】______that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the【C16】______beneficiary (受益者). My father became the【C17】______man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
    What power【C18】______has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is【C19】______strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible (不 可抗拒的) force which poverty and temporary defeat can never【C20】______.
    You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.
【C2】
选项 A、distinguished
B、favored
C、mistaken
D、rewarded
答案A
解析 语义衔接题。根据空后的for可首先排除常与of搭配使用的[B]favored；[D]rewarded与for连用后面接奖励的原因，且与此处的感情色彩矛盾，故排除：由后面提到的throwing rocks at you可知，此处是说作者是一个很坏的孩子，而不是被误认为是坏孩子，故排除[C]mistaken。[A]distinguished与for连用表示“以……著称”，用在此处指“他是这个县出了名的最坏的孩子”。
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