阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Each time I was feeling disappointed, my mother would say to me “ Tomorrow will be another day. If you can        on, some day something nice will happen. And you will come to know that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous          .”
What mother said was absolutely right, as I          after my graduation from college. I had made up my mind to try for a           in radio, then          my way up to sports announcer. I went to Springfield and knocked on the door of each station—and got        each time. In one studio, a warm-hearted woman told me that          stations couldn’t risk employing a(n)         person. “ Please go out to the faraway or lonely district and find a small station which will give you a          ,” she said. I came back home to St-Louis.
While there were no radio-announcing jobs in St-Louis, my father said Wards Holding Corporation had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its          department. Since St-Louis was where I had played high school football, I          . The job sounded just          for me. But I wasn’t employed. My disappointment must have          . “Tomorrow will be another day,” Mom          me. I tried WOC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The program director, Jack Green, told me they had already hired an          .
As I went away from his office, my frustration boiled over (爆发). I asked          , “How can a young man get to be a sports announcer if he cannot get a job in a radio station?” I was just patiently waiting for the elevator           I heard Jack Green calling, “What did you say about sports just now? You mean you know something about football?” Then he stood me          a microphone and told me to          an imaginary game.
On the way to my home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words. From time to time I          what direction my life might have taken if I had had the job at Wards Holding Corporation

A．take B．put C．move D．carry

A．concern B．doubt C．disappointment D．amazement

A．recovered B．discovered C．recognized D．developed

A．job B．plan C．trip D．research

A．come B．go C．push D．work

A．put off B．broken away C．turned down D．fed up

A．no B．big C．small D．famous

A．selfish B．confident C．inexperienced D．independent

A．tip B．reward C．challenge D．chance

A．sports B．food C．clothes D．radio

A．hesitated B．applied C．refused D．agreed

A．right B．important C．boring D．funny

A．disappeared B．hidden C．shown D．died

A．warned B．reminded C．recognized D．demanded

A．athlete B．actor C．announcer D．artist

A．aloud B．secretly C．silently D．equally

A．while B．where C．after D．when

A．within B．before C．beyond D．beneath

A．play B．perform C．broadcast D．present

A．say B．wonder C．dream D．learn