题目内容：

    “Never give up!” It is my rule of life. It has brought me success. I learned the rule from my father’s ___story.

My father was ____ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then ____ in the field till sunset(日落). And then he did his homework ___ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no _____! At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where ____people can become rich.

“ ___ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope. So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to ____money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire(雇佣) me because I spoke ___ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, ___ dishes and sweeping the ___. Life was ____for the first few years. I worked from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was ____. I couldn’t afford the schooling(付起学费).”

My father ____ working hard, and reached his goal. “Alan,” he often says to me, “ if you want something, you have to work for it and never give up.   

Things do not come ___ in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

1.A. life B. fashion C. danger D. history

2.A. famous B. lucky C. rich D. born

3.A. taught B. worked C. studied D. slept

4.A. until B. between C. for D. after

5.A. experience B. energy C. time D. money

6.A. kind B. poor C. strong D. lazy

7.A. What B. How C. Why D. When

8.A. discover B. make C. collect D. spend

9.A. little B. good C. much D. wonderful

10.A. giving B. running C. washing D. receiving

11.A. floor B. street C. classroom D. car

12.A. comfortable B. cheerful C. nice D. hard

13.A. possible B. good C. impossible D. important

14.A. kept B. finished C. minded D. stopped

15.A. really B. easily C. quietly D. slowly