Money was a constant source of tension and stress when I was growing up. My parents were      , well-educated and hard-working, but they lived from paycheck to paycheck. When I was 13, they split up. Then my mom      to raise three kids, often relying on free lunch tickets and food stamps. As my mother      retirement age, she was filled with       over the fact that she hadn’t saved enough for her golden retirement years,       she often sighed. My father had always been       to work—we had always      he’d work less and spend more time with us      . But he is just a workaholic(工作狂).
My parents were trying so hard to make ends meet, so I couldn’t become a      on them. As a result, I       college and spent the next couple of years drifting from one minimum wage job to another. I       my broken-down car, went to work on foot, reduced my       by sharing a one-bedroom apartment with three other women, and got free food during Happy Hour at our local bar. I learned to do whatever it took to       .
One night, while I was working at a donut shop and 34 coffee for a homeless customer, I       that I was one paycheck away from being homeless myself. That was my wake-up       . Motivated by fear of an uncertain       , I opened the Yellow Pages(电话黄页),         professional dog trainers and negotiated an unpaid apprenticeship(学徒工作). Less than a year later, I was      by a dog trainer, and I loved the work. A couple of years later, I started my own dog-training school, which luckily turned out to be       . My efforts paid off.
Though I didn’t have rich parents to rely on, I discovered the power of asking for what I want.

A．clever B．careful C．greedy D．powerless

A．hoped B．struggled C．attempted D．refused

A．counted B．imagined C．mentioned D．approached

A．curiosity B．disagreement C．anxiety D．happiness

A．if B．so C．but D．because

A．addicted B．similar C．related D．familiar

A．believed B．guessed C．said D．wished

A．though B．yet C．instead D．too

A．danger B．burden C．challenge D．threat

A．dropped out of B．was admitted into C．went in D．went through

A．paid for B．cleaned out C．gave away D．fixed up

A．clothes B．dinner C．weight D．rent

A．survive B．work C．play D．pay

A．buying B．making C．tasting D．smelling

A．recalled B．promised C．feared D．realized

A．sign B．hit C．call D．period

A．future B．job C．mood D．family

A．searched B．phoned C．invited D．persuaded

A．honored B．reminded C．hired D．moved

A．hard B．tiring C．efficient D．successful