Unit 4 Sharing Language points课时作业

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　　Decades ago, I was one of the unhappiest men in New York. I was selling trucks for a living. I didn't know what made a truck run. That wasn't all: I didn't want to know. I despised (看不起) my job. I despised living in a

　1　 furnished room filled with cockroaches (蟑螂). When I 　2　 out for a fresh necktie, they scattered in all directions. I despised eating in dirty restaurants 　3　 filled with cockroaches.

　　I came back to my lonely room each night with a sick headache 　4　 by disappointment and bitterness. Was this life? Was this the adventure I had 　5　? Was this all life would ever 　6　 to me-working at a job I despised, living with cockroaches, and eating bad food? I 　7　 for leisure to read and to write the books I had dreamed of writing back in my college days.

　　I knew I had everything to gain and 　8　 to lose by giving up the job I despised. So I quitted the work I hated and 　9　 I had studied in the Teachers' College, preparing to teach, I would make my living teaching adult classes in night schools. Then I would have my 　10　 free to read books, prepare lectures, and write novels.

　　What subject should I teach? As I looked back and 　11　 my own college training, I saw that public speaking was of more 　12　 value to me than everything else I had studied in college because it had 　13　out my lack of confidence and given me the courage to deal with people. It had also made 　14　 that leadership usually favors the man who can get up and speak his mind.

Then I started teaching in night schools, where I had to show 　15　 results quickly. These 　16　didn't come for college credits. They came for one reason only: to solve problems. They wanted to stand up on their own feet and say a few words at a business meeting without fainting from 　17　. They wanted to call on a(n) 　18　 customer without having to walk around the block three times to get up 　19　. They