The manager, _____ his factory's products were poor in quality, decided to give his workers further training.
A. knowing B. known
C. to know D. being known
We live in an age _____ more information is available with greater ease than ever before.
A. why B. when
C. to whom D. on which
In autumn, leaves turn yellow and _____ the trees.
A. fall from B. fall down
C. fall off D. fall out
The world will be different, and we will have to be prepared to _____ the change.
A. adapt to B. adopt to
C. apply to D. devote to
The small factories _____ the fall of the prices.
A. benefited B. benefited from
C. benefited to D. benefited in
I do not know why I came to the decision to become a loser, but I know I made the choice at a young age. Sometime in the middle of fourth grade, I stopped ___________. By the time I was in seventh grade, I was your ____________ degenerate (颓废): lazy, rebellious, and disrespectful. I had lost all social ____________. I terminally (不可救药的) followed, what was fashionable.
Not long after that, I dropped out of school and ____________ my downward spiral. Hard physical labor was the ____________ for the choices I made as an adolescent. At the age of twenty-one, I was ___________ lost and using drugs as a way to deal with the fact that I was uneducated and ___________ in a dead-end job carrying roof materials up a ladder all day.
But now I believe in do-overs, in the __________ to do it all again. And I believe that do-overs can be made at any point in your life, if you have the right __________. Mine came from a ____________ source.
It was September 21, 2002, when my son Blake was born. It's funny that after a life of __________ responsibility, now I was in charge of something so __________. Over the years, as I grew into the title of Dad, I began to learn something about myself. ____________, Blake and I were both learning to walk, talk, work, and play for the first time. I began my do-over.
It took me almost three years to learn ____________ to read. I started with my son's books. Over and over, I practiced reading books to him ____________ I remembered all the words in every one of them. I began to wonder if it was possible for me to go back to school. I knew I wanted to be a good role model, ___________ after a year-and-a-half and a lot of hard work, I passed my GED test on my son's fourth birthday. This may not sound like ____________, and I am not trying to get praise for doing something that should have been done in the first place, but all things considered it was one of the ___________ days in my life. Today, I am a full-time college student, studying to become a sociologist.
Growing up, I ____________ heard these great turn-around stories of triumph over shortcomings. But I never thought they applied to me. Now I believe it is a (an) ____________ anyone can make: To do it all over again.
1.A. playing B. dreaming C. schooling D. trying
2.A. normal B. typical C. apparent D. ordinary
3.A. graces B. directions C. positions D. occupations
4.A. started B. expanded C. continued D. prevented
5.A. consequence B. destruction C. entertainment D. reward
6.A. willingly B. hopelessly C. desperately D. reluctantly
7.A. stuck B. buried C. trained D. spoiled
8.A. ambition B. purpose C. interest D. chance
9.A. advice B. goal C. schedule D. motivation
10.A. confusing B. surprising C. frightening D. upsetting
11.A. sharing B. shouldering C. avoiding D. recognizing
12.A. fragile B. brilliant C. plain D. sensitive
13.A. On the contrary B. On the whole C. In a way D. In a word
14.A. what B. why C. when D. how
15.A. until B. unless C. if D. after
16.A. yet B. so C. for D. or
17.A. much B. enough C. nothing D. something
18.A. funny B. boring C. best D. worst
19.A. seldom B. directly C. immediately D. always
20.A. choice B. assumption C. contribution D. adjustment
