You heard about the sign posted on a farmer's fence? On the other side of the      resides the biggest, meanest looking     you can imagine．The sign is intended to strike     into the hearts of would-be trespassers．It reads, "Don't attempt to     this field unless you can do it in 9．9 seconds．The bull can do it in 10 flat!"
Don't try to cross that field unless you are         !And isn't that the way it is in life? We have to be ready when the      arises or else we will have little chance of     ．
Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms Shelton believed in     ．Students remember how she     in on the first day of class and began writing     of an eighth-grade caliber on the chalkboard．They     protested that the words were not on their     and they couldn't learn them．
Their teacher         that the students could and would learn these words．She said that she would        teach down to them．Ms Shelton ended by saying that one of the students in that classroom could go on to       ．maybe even be president some day, and she wanted to prepare them for that day．
Ms Shelton spoke those words many years ago．     did she know that someday one of her students - Jesse Jackson - would take them      ．She believed that if they were well prepared, they could achieve      goals．
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "People only see what they are prepared to see．"      that's true, then it is also true that they only become what they are prepared to become． And a lot of          is just about getting ready．

A．fence B．river C．village D．hill

A．tiger B．farmer C．bull D．goat

A．curiosity B．fear C．desire D．courage

A．cut B．cover C．enter D．cross

A．accompanied B．armed C．prepared D．guarded

A．opportunity B．challenge C．hope D．problem

A．luck B．victory C．wealth D．success

A．determination B．readiness C．honesty D．diligence

A．hurried B．moved C．walked D．broke

A．words B．poems C．proverbs D．questions

A．strangely B．quietly C．rudely D．quickly

A．range B．level C．interest D．requirement

A．admitted B．announced C．insisted D．complained

A．never B．instead C．still D．always

A．position B．career C．service D．greatness

A．Little B．Seldom C．Much D．Once

A．easy B．seriously C．completely D．back

A．final B．proper C．high D．straight

A．Although B．If C．Whether D．Unless

A．fan B．fact C．truth D．life