题目内容：

    There was once a young man who liked puppets(木偶) so much that he was apprenticed(当学徒) to a master puppet-maker. ______, the young man was not very clever. His ______ and other apprentices were always telling him he had no ability for making puppets, and that he would not ______.

Even so, he enjoyed it so much that he worked day after day to ______. Although he devoted much time to doing it, they would ______ find something wrong with the puppets he made, and finally drove him out of the workshop.

He wasn’t going to ______, so the young man decided that from then on he would spend all his time making just one kind of puppet. And ______ he found a fault(瑕疵) in his puppet, he would throw it away and start again. With each ______ attempt(尝试), his puppet became a little bit better. Years passed, his puppet was much better than anything his old apprentices could make, but he ______ making improvements. Living like that, the man wasn’t making any money, and many people ______ him and thought how silly he was.

When he was an old man, his puppet was ______ wonderful. Finally one day, after years of ______, he finished his puppet, and said, “I can’t find anything wrong with it. This time it is ______.” And for the first time in all those years, instead of ______ his puppet away, he put it on the shelf, feeling ______ and happy. The puppet gave that old man more joy than any other famous puppet-lovers ever got.

1.A.Sadly B.Gently C.Luckily D.Usually

2.A.father B.teacher C.classmate D.friend

3.A.miss B.forget C.succeed D.listen

4.A.improve B.form C.connect D.remind

5.A.never B.seldom C.sometimes D.always

6.A.give up B.give out C.carry up D.carry out

7.A.whoever B.whenever C.however D.whatever

8.A.usual B.old C.easy D.new

9.A.finished B.avoided C.kept D.stopped

10.A.looked over B.cheered up C.laughed at D.stayed out

11.A.hardly B.possibly C.simply D.really

12.A.effect B.effort C.spirit D.value

13.A.modern B.perfect C.priceless D.expensive

14.A.hiding B.fixing C.covering D.throwing

15.A.talented B.surprised C.worried D.satisfied