题型：完形填空 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
浙江省温州市十五校联合体2017-2018学年高二下学期英语期末联考试卷（音频暂未更新）
A boy from a farmer's family stopped from school due to poverty, and went back farming to1the family. When he grew up to 19 years old, his father died. After that, all the family2 him including his mother and grandma in sickness.
At first, he 3a pool and wanted to feed fish. But others told him it couldn't be used to feed fish, but only to grow crops. What he could do was to cover the pool and thereafter he became a 4.
Then he heard raising chickens was a way of making money. He borrowed some money from relatives and 5 chickens. 6 a flood attacked the town, and after that all the chickens got sick and almost 7. His mother could hardly 8 it and died in the gloom.
He 9the businesses of making wine, fishing or even digging embrasures (炮眼) on the cliff for others.
When he was 35, he had no wife, no money, but only lived in a house made from earth which would 10in any storm. But he still wanted to 11 . He borrowed some money to buy a truck. But when he drove it on the road after a short while, he had an 12 and broke his leg. He became crippled. Everyone said he was 13 .
But later he became a boss, who owned a capital of 200 million. Now lots of people know his past and his business experiences. A journalist made a(n) 14with him.
“Why do you 15after so many failures?”
He was sitting in front of a broad table and just had finished a cup of water. Then he held the16cup in hand and asked, “If I loose my hand, what will happen to this cup?”
“Broken!” answered the journalist.
He 17his hand and the cup fell to the floor, with a bang sound, but not 18.
“Even if ten people were there they would believe it was broken. But, it isn't a(n) 19cup. It is made of 20.”
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