“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you ___1___, something good will happen some day.”
Mother was ___2___, as I discovered after graduating from college, I had ___3___ myself for a sports announcer. So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was ___4___ every time. In one station, a ___5___ lady told me that large stations wouldn’t employ a person without ___6___ since I just graduated. “Go out of the town and find a small station that might give you ___7___,” she said.
I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had ___8___ in the school football team. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to ___9___ its sports department. The job sounded just ___10___ for me but I wasn’t hired.
My disappointment had ___11___ as if by design. “Everything happens for the best,” Mom ___12___ me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already ___13___ an announcer. After I left his office, I asked aloud “___14___ can a fellow get to be a sports ___15___ if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” ___16___, I heard the director calling. “Do you know anything about ___17___?” Then he asked me to ___18___ an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was ___19___ and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the ___20___ Saturday.
1. A. put on B. wait on C. move on D. carry on
2. A. false B. right C. great D. strong
3. A. devoted B. designed C. found D. enjoyed
4. A. called B. received C. refused D. accepted
5. A. large B. tall C. kind D. rude
6. A. experience B. examination C. agreement D. permission
7. A. money B. chance C. time D. patience
8. A. played B. joined C. taken D. fought
9. A. own B. manage C. report D. enter
10. A. funny B. reasonable C. right D. importa