完形填空。      "Everything happens for the best." my mother said when I    1   disappointment. "If you carry on, one day
something good will happen."
     Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then
  2   my way up to a sports announcer. I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station and got
turned    3   every time.
      In one station, a    4   lady told me that any    5   station couldn" t risk hiring an unexperienced person." Find a
small station that"ll give you a   6   ,"she said.
     Then I went to Montgomery Ward, which had opened a store and wanted a person to    7   its sports
department. The job    8   just right for me. But I wasn"t hired.
     My disappointment must have shown. " Everything happens for the best." Mum reminded me. Dad    9   me
the car to drive seventy miles to Tricities. I    10   Woe Radio. The program director, Mac Arthur, told me they
had    11   hired an announcer.
      As I left his office, I asked    12   ,"How can a fellow get to be a    13   if he can"t get a job in a radio station?"
      I was waiting for the elevator   14   I heard Mac Arthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? Do
you know anything about  15 ?" Then he   16   me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast a( an)    17  
 game.
     The next autumn, my team   18   a game in the last twenty seconds. I did a fifteen-minute build-up to that
play and Mac Arthur told me I would be   19   Saturday"s game!
      On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought   20   my mother" s words,"If you carry on, one
day something good will happen."

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