“I really want to, but I can’t because...” It hurts every time I hear someone say it. I see it for what it is—an excuse. Every one of us has hopes, dreams and goals. We talk about how we will achieve them, but _________ it’s time to do them, we use that sentence as an overall excuse.
During my teen years, I felt stuck. I wanted to learn so many things and achieve my wildest dreams, yet I couldn’t. Living in an poor country with a lack of (缺少) water, electricity, security and opportunities (机会), we didn’t have training courses, libraries or clubs. And the Internet was slower than a snail (蜗牛) moving _________ through peanut butter (花生酱).
One day, I decided to use the resources (资源) I had to create the future I dreamed of. I set my mind on getting the Japanese Government Scholarship (奖学金). I read lots of articles and books online to improve my Japanese. _________ a few months, I was able to hold a simple conversation in Japanese.
However, my Japanese wasn’t good enough to help me win the scholarship. I realized that I would need other ways to get _________. So I set out to build a snail care website. Every day, after school, I would research snails and write detailed articles about them. I _________ my snail website for three years. I’m sure you’re expecting a spirit-lifting ending where I travel to Japan and live off (以……谋生) the website. That’s not how this story ends. The fact is, I _________. The snail website made me only a total of $60. How disappointing!
Unwilling to accept the facts, I started an online university the next year. I can tell you that I tried, but it didn’t work out completely. To be more exact, it _________ —just not the way I expected.
I’m not in Japan, but I know how to speak Japanese and have met many interesting people along the way. My snail website didn’t succeed, but I created a new one that’s even _________ with the experience I gained.
I didn’t let my _________ stand in my way, and I created my own opportunities. I strongly believe that __________ can create their own way to make the cards they’ve been given into a winning hand.
11. 12. A.quickly | B.slowly | C.happily | D.finally |
13. A.For | B.Since | C.Before | D.After |
14. A.information | B.fun | C.a pet | D.money |
15. A.shut off | B.stuck to | C.kept away from | D.fell love with |
16. A.failed | B.won | C.succeeded | D.accepted |
17. A.did | B.didn’t | C.does | D.doesn’t |
18. A.good | B.better | C.bad | D.worse |
19. A.hopes | B.dreams | C.difficulties | D.experiences |
20. A.no one | B.every one | C.someone | D.anyone |