完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）When I was 14, I was hired for an after-school job selling subscr

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
When I was 14, I was hired for an after-school job selling subscriptions (征订，订阅) to my hometown paper, the Houston Post. I was sent to some of the city’s worst neighborhoods to “beg” door-to-door. Even though I was often moving around after dark in bad areas     36     for garage apartments, I was     37     for the work.
It was a     38     because people didn’t like a stranger knocking on their door,     39     a kid trying to get them to buy something. On one     40    , a man shut his door heavily in my face and     41__, “I don’t want your damn paper.” I     42     myself to knock again and was able to tell him how great the paper was. I     43     selling him a subscription. I was soon among the     44     subscription sellers and, like other successful     45    , was given responsibility for training newers.
    46     this time I started playing the harmonica and guitar. Before long I was playing in a     47     at barbecues and other events. When I     48     18, I focused my     49     on being a professional musician. I never lost     50     of this dream. I’m sure my determination came from what I     51     knocking on strangers’ doors.
That     52     helped me in many ways. Early in my music career I was locked in a legal disagreement with a former manager. He     53     me to back off, but I refused.
Having all those doors shut in my face as a kid gave me the     54    to stand up to this frightening figure. Except this time there was one     55    : I was the one saying no. And I won.
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