完形填空。      Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through
Europe. I had been    1   a couple of times, but I could hardly    2   to know my ways around the continent.
    3  , my knowledge of foreign languages was    4   to a little college French. 
     I    5  . How would I, unable to speak the language,    6   familiar with local geography or transportation
systems, conduct interviews and do    7  ? It seemed impossible, and with considerable    8   I sat down to
write a letter rejecting the    9  . Halfway through, a   10  ran through my mind: you can"t learn if you don"t
try. So I   11  the assignment. There were some bad   12 . But by the time I had finished the trip, I was an
experienced traveler. And ever since, I have never hesitated to head for even the most   13  places, without
guides or   14  advanced bookings, confident that somehow I will   15 .
     The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition   16 . But each time you try something,
you learn, and as the learning   17 , the World opens to you.
     I"ve learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a(n)   18 . And I know I"ll go on doing such
things. It"s not because I"m braver or more daring than others. I"m not. But I"ll accept worry as another
name for   19  and I believe I can   20  wonders.

(     )1. A. aboard        (     )2. A. claim         (     )3. A. Somehow       (     )4. A. accustomed    (     )5. A. resigned      (     )6. A. only too      (     )7. A. operations    (     )8. A. regret        (     )9. A. request       (     )10. A. reaction     (     )11. A. accomplished (     )12. A. exchanges    (     )13. A. remote       (     )14. A. still        (     )15. A. do           (     )16. A. astonishing  (     )17. A. comes up     (     )18. A. airplane     (     )19. A. goal         (     )20. A. work

B. abroad           B. declare        B. However          B. added            B. hesitated       B. more than       B. experiments     B. doubt           B. job              B. thought        B. received        B. conditions      B. accessible       B. ever          B. manage            B. frightening    B. shows up         B. motorboat       B. opportunity   B. own

C. away               C. hope          C. Instead           C. limited             C. trembled        C. apart from       C. research         C. terror           C. trust            C. meaning           C. accepted         C. trips            C. interesting     C. even         C. make                 C. fascinating    C. piles up          C. surfboard          C. struggle      C. win

D. out                     D. deny             D. Moreover              D. suited                  D. suspected           D. far from              D. business             D. disappointment       D. assignment         D. conflict               D. resisted              D. experiences                       D. crowded           D. yet                D. fit                        D. exciting           D. steps up             D. balloon                 D. challenge        D. achieve