“Never give up!” It is my law of my life. It has brought me ____. I learned the law from my father’s ____ story.
My father was ___ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to a school in the morning, then ____ in the fields till sunset. 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. 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 me because I spoke _____ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, _____ dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ____ for the first few years. I worked from 10am to 11pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t ___ the schooling.”
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.

A．disaster B．loss C．success D．pity

A．life B．fashion C．danger D．history

A．famous B．lucky C．rich D．born

A．taught B．worked C．studied D．slept

A．until B．toward C．for D．during

A．experience B．energy C．time D．money

A．kind B．poor C．strong D．lazy

A．What B．How C．Why D．When

A．discover B．make C．collect D．spend

A．little B．good C．much D．excellent

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

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

A．borrow B．need C．afford D．pay

A．kept B．finished C．minded D．stopped

A．really B．easily C．quietly D．slowly