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Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.

My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very_______life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would ________ my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”

At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never_______again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving ________, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I didn’t want to be bad enough. She drove that message _______deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school-walking on my own!

When the Great Depression（大蕭條）hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support _____ of us. At that moment, I decided never to be__________again.

Over the years, I experienced various（不同類別的） levels of business success. But the real turning point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1916. I was unhappy with the second-class hotels for families and was __________ that they charged（收費）an extra（額外的） $2 for each child. That was too_______for most American families. I told my wife that I was going to open a hotel for families that would never charge extra for ______. There were plenty of doubters at that time.

Not______, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of hard time. But with my mother’ s words deeply rooted（扎根） in my heart, I________doubted（懷疑） we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest______system in the world - Holiday Inn . In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns（客棧）in more than fifty countries with an income of $1 billion a year.

You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you can find a_______in life worth working for and believe in yourself, _______can stop you.

1.A. quiet B. boring C. hard D. strange

2.A. accept B. change C. disturb D. check

3.A. study B. speak C. listen D. walk

4.A. voice B. sound C. noise D. talk

5.A. so B. such C. very D. quite

6.A. all B. both C. every D. most

7.A. excited B. brave C. patient D. poor

8.A. sad B. happy C. tired D. angry

9.A. expensive B. fantastic C. different D. special

10.A. husband B. parents C. children D. wife

11.A. successfully B. surprisingly C. interestingly D. importantly

12.A. always B. sometimes C. almost D. never

13.A. restaurant B. theatre C. library D. hotel

14.A. task B. hotel C. company D. word

15.A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything

1.C 2.B 3.D 4.A 5.A 6.B 7.D 8.D 9.A 10.C 11.B 12.D 13.D 14.A 15.A 【解析】本文講述了在單親家庭生活的作者，小時候與母親相依為命，在母親的支持、呵護和鼓勵下，努力成長的故事。雖然成長過程中有些坎坷，但母親一直鼓勵他做一個自信努力的人，母親的鼓勵讓...

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