题目内容：

Failing Successfully

Two years ago I took part in a speech competition and delivered a memorized speech. It was a hard time for me when the judge ______ the winners. At last, the moment of truth came. I got the worst.

After not being placed in the competition, I really wanted to ______ again. I realized that finding the right topic was the most important part of the whole _____. It needs to be motivational and inspirational to the ______. So I reworked my speech for the following year, ______ a different topic and spending many hours before the computer and in libraries doing research. Then I worked _____ the speech, line by line, word by word, making it ______ better.

The next year I participated in the competition again. I gave my ______ in two parts, one was about my own experience and the other was about the feelings that people usually have when giving a speech—how ______ it is, standing on a stage all alone, with everyone sitting and watching them. My speech ______ down well and I was hoping to do that a little bit better. _____, my wish didn’t come true. The competition was so fierce and again I wasn’t _____.

I was deeply disappointed, since I couldn’t accept the fact that I had ______ twice in something that I had worked so hard on. However, I knew that losing is ______ and part of life. One of the judges said to me that my speech was quite good, ______ it needed to be better if I wanted to go any further. He advised me to struggle to ______ something like some of the empty gestures. He said that I would surely succeed someday.

While I didn’t earn ______ as a result of the competition, I did gain a new viewpoint. I discovered that I could fail successfully. I think I’ll ______ to work hard and enter the next competition. Now, whenever I’m faced with a defeat, I ______ myself of what a famous person said, “The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself that it’s a slip and not a ______.”

1.A. interviewed    B. predicted    C. observed    D. announced

2.A. compete    B. suffer    C. win    D. check

3.A. range    B. condition    C. system    D. process

4.A. companion    B. audience    C. director    D. author

5.A. reviewing    B. supposing    C. picking    D. comparing

6.A. during    B. against    C. behind    D. through

7.A. increase    B. occur    C. expose    D. flow

8.A. choice    B. instruction    C. reason    D. speech

9.A. annoying    B. surprising    C. frightening    D. confusing

10.A. slowed    B. dropped    C. went    D. rolled

11.A. Angrily    B. Sadly    C. Strangely    D. Eagerly

12.A. placed    B. treated    C. settled    D. affected

13.A. decreased    B. escaped    C. struggled    D. failed

14.A. flexible    B. typical    C. appropriate    D. normal

15.A. but    B. so    C. for    D. or

16.A. assume    B. declare    C. overcome    D. acquire

17.A. awards    B. profits    C. comments    D. qualities

18.A. continue    B. agree    C. regret    D. apply

19.A. allow    B. inform    C. accuse    D. remind

20.A. fall    B. push    C. kick    D. walk