完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Around twenty years ago I was living in York.___21__ I had a lot of experience and a Masters degree ,I could not find ___22___work.
I was ____23___a school bus to make ends meet and___24___with a friend of mine ,for I had lost my flat .I had __25__five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not __26___the job .“ Why has my life become so __27___? ”I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to ___28___a little girl, she handed me an earring __29__I should keep it ___30__somebody claimed (认领)it . The earring was painted black and said “ BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry .Then it ___31___me – I had been giving all of my ___32____to what was going wrong with my __33___rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a___34__of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to __35____ more things to the list .That night there was a phone call for ____36____from a lady who was a dir ector at a large ___37___. She asked me if I would ____38____a one –day lecture on stress(压力) management to 200 medical workers . I said yes.
My ___39__there went very well ,and before long I got a well- paid job .To this day I know it was because I changed my way of ___40___that I completely changed my life.