题目内容：

When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to discourage me from becoming a brewer(酿酒师). He’d spent his life in local breweries, _______ making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him.

So I did as he asked. I went to business school and got a highly paid job at a business-consulting firm. _______, after working there five years, I was haunted by _______. Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?

I remembered that some time before, my dad had been cleaning out the attic and _______ some old beer _______. “Today’s beer is _______ water that can hold a head,” he’d told me.

I agreed. Americans pay good money for _______ beer, I thought. Why not make good beer for Americans using my family way?

I decided to quit my job to become a brewer. When I told Dad, I was hoping he’d put his arm around me and get _______ about continuing tradition. Instead he said, “Jim, that is the _______thing I’ve ever heard!”

________ Dad objected, in the end he became my new company’s first ________, coughing up(支付) $40,000 when I opened the Boston Beer Company in 1984. Going from my fancy office to being a brewer was like mountain climbing: exciting, liberating and ________. All my safety nets were gone.

Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest ________ yet: no one had ever heard of it. I needed a name that was ________ and elegant, so I called my beer Samuel Adams, ________ the brewer and patriot(爱国者) who helped to found the Boston Tea Party.

The only way to get the word out, I realized, was to sell direct. I filled my briefcase with beer and ________ every bar in Boston. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager won the top prize for American beer. The rest is history. It wasn’t supposed to ________ this way —whatever does? —but in the end I was ________ to be a brewer.

My advice to all young entrepreneurs is simple: life is very long, so don’t ________ to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you ________.

1.A. barely    B. easily    C. sufficiently    D. adequately

2.A. Though    B. Otherwise    C. Still    D. Anyhow

3.A. fear    B. doubt    C. regret    D. desire

4.A. came across    B. picked out    C. put down    D. brought about

5.A. receipts    B. cans    C. recipes    D. labels

6.A. exactly    B. particularly    C. roughly    D. basically

7.A. inferior    B. superb    C. fake    D. sour

8.A. miserable    B. amused    C. excited    D. concerned

9.A. dumbest    B. smartest    C. toughest    D. rudest

10.A. As soon as    B. As much as    C. As far as    D. As long as

11.A. employer    B. customer    C. investor    D. salesman

12.A. inspiring    B. relaxing    C. pushing    D. frightening

13.A. opportunity    B. decision    C. obstacle    D. defeat

14.A. respectable    B. honorable    C. recognizable    D. understandable

15.A. after    B. by    C. as    D. for

16.A. hit    B. got    C. called    D. promoted

17.A. make out    B. reach out    C. set out    D. work out

18.A. appointed    B. destined    C. considered    D. intended

19.A. hesitate    B. need    C. wait    D. rush

20.A. delay    B. dream    C. plan    D. prepare