A lesson of life
" Everything happens for the best, " my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something
will happen. And you'll
that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment. "
After graduating from college, I
that mother was right. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I travelled to Chicago by getting
rides from drivers of passing cars and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned
every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't
hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the countryside and find a small station that'll give you a
, " she said.
I returned home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a
athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I
. The job sounded just
for me. But I wasn't
.
My
must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom
me. Dad
me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt extremely
.I asked
, " How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"
I was waiting for the elevator
I heard MacArthur calling, " What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me
a microphone (麦克风) and asked me to broadcast an
game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: " Keep on trying until some day you succeed. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous failure. " I often wonder what
my life might have taken if I'd got the job at Montgomery
| 小题1: | | A．good | B．bad | C．interesting | D．important |
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| 小题2: | | A．hope | B．declare | C．realize | D．explain |
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| 小题3: | | A．announced | B．discovered | C．suggested | D．expected |
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| 小题4: | | A．smooth | B．short | C．comfortable | D．free |
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| 小题6: | | A．advise | B．mind | C．risk | D．practise |
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| 小题7: | | A．choice | B．promise | C．result | D．chance |
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| 小题8: | | A．professional | B．natural | C．local | D．top |
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| 小题9: | | A．volunteered | B．responded | C．registered | D．applied |
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| 小题10: | | A．right | B．special | C．difficult | D．correct |
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| 小题11: | | A．fired | B．identified | C．hired | D．interviewed |
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| 小题12: | | A．astonishment | B．disappointment | C．ambition | D．appreciation |
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| 小题13: | | A．admired | B．undersood | C．blamed | D．reminded |
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| 小题14: | | A．offered | B．made | C．showed | D．returned |
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| 小题15: | | A．discouraged | B．delighted | C．embarrassed | D．frightened |
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| 小题16: | | A．anxiously | B．aloud | C．carefully | D．politely |
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| 小题19: | | A．imaginary | B．interesting | C．important | D．intemational |
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| 小题20: | | A．effect | B．direction | C．aim | D．pleasure |
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