完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the suc

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father      36      me to her with these words: “ I would like you to meet the fellow who is ­­­­­    37     for being the worst boy in this country and will probably start throwing rocks at you no     38     than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me,     39     my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are     40    . This is not the worst boy at all,     41     the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet(释放的途径) for his enthusiasm.
That statement began a(n)     42     between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my     43     as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She     44     my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more     45     and my brother and I could be better     46    .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand     47     and told me that she believed that I could bee a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I     48     it, and I saw how it had improved our lives. I accepted her     49     and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of _ 50     that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the     51     beneficiary (受益者). My father became the     52     man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power _53     has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is     54     strengthened by faith, it bees an irresistible(不可抗拒的) force which poverty and temporary defeat can never     55     .
You can municate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.
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