Letting go of success I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've____ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully ____ today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never ____ while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The ___ is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures! I once ____ a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend ____ Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her ____ son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He____ he was racing those cars around a great track, which in ____ was an imaginary circle around a golden statue (雕像). The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable ____ for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night. When his mother told him the time had come to ____, the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this?” ____ to the Oscar. “Sure, ” he smiled. “It's yours.” The horrified mother ____. “Put that back immediately!” Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me;   ____it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a ____ hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to____, rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start. You may have learned to let go of past ____ and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ____? Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock? “I like the ____ of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. I ____. After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived. 小题1:A discovered   B. inferred     C. hoped    D. worried 小题2: A．spend B．live C．understand D．enjoy 小题3: A．struggle B．work C．succeed D．learn 小题4: A．story B．fact C．idea D．news 小题5: A．wrote B．told C．knew D．heard 小题6: A．saw B．recognized C．met D．visited 小题7: A．careful B．small C．lonely D．clever 小题8: A．pretended B．believed C．insisted D．suggested 小题9: A．reality B．case C．turn D．need 小题10: A．cared B．asked C．won D．looked 小题11: A．act B．leave C．play D．wait 小题12: A．running B．getting C．pointing D．shouting 小题13: A．objected B．noticed C．suffered D．breathed 小题14: A．selling B．keeping C．earning D．sharing 小题15: A．special B．comfortable C．expensive D．necessary 小题16: A．rest B．cheat C．stop D．sit 小题17: A．difficulties B．events C．failures D．achievements 小题18: A．time B．future C．body D．brain 小题19: A．idea B．meaning C．dreams D．thoughts 小题20: A．obey B．permit C．wish D．agree