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gh. She drove that message ___5___deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to schoolwalking on my own! When the Great Depression(大蕭條) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support __6__ of us. At that moment, I decided never to be____7_____again. Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1916. I was dissatisfied with the secondclass hotels for families and was ____8_____ that they charged(收費) an extra $2 for each child. That was too 9 for most American families. I told my wife that I was going to open a hotel for families that would never charge extra for 10 . There were plenty of doubters at that time. Not 11 , mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of hard time. But with my mother’ s words deeply rooted in my heart, I 12 doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest 13 system in the world Holiday Inn . In 1979 my pany had 1,759 inns(客棧) in more than fifty countries with an ine of $1 billion a year. You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you can find a 14 in life worth working for and believe in yourself, 15 can stop you. ( )1. A. quiet B. boring C. hard D. strange ( )2. A. accept B. change C. disturb D. check ( )3. A. study B. speak C. listen D. walk ( )4. A. voice B. sound C. noise D. talk ( )5. A. so B. such C. very D. quite ( )6. A. all B. both C. every D. most ( )7. A. excited B. brave C. patient D. poor ( )8. A. sad B. happy C. tired D. angry ( )9. A. expensive B. fantastic C. different D. special ( )10. A. husband B. parents C. children D. wife ( )11. A. successfully B. surprisingly C. interestingly D. importantly ( )12. A. always B. sometimes C. almost D. never ( )13. A. restaurant B. theatre C. library D. hotel ( )14. A. task B. hotel C. pany D. word ( )15. A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything We know that Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Do you want to be an astronaut? Then study hard, stay 1 and have perseverance (毅力 ). This is what Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng said