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　　Exactly fifty years ago my father gave me the words I have lived by ever since.He was a physician.I had just started to study law at Budapest University.I failed one examination.I thought I could not __1__the shame so I sought escape in the consolation (慰藉) of failure’s closest__2__，alcohol，always at hand：apricot brandy to be exact.

　　My father called on me__3___.Like a good doctor，he discovered both the trouble and the__4__，in a second.I admitted why I had to escape reality.

　　The dear old man then and there made an immediate prescription.He__5__to me that there can be no real escape in alcohol or sleeping pills—or in any drug.For any__6__there is only one medicine，better and more __7__than all the drugs in the world：work!

　　How__8__my father was!Getting used to work might be hard.Sooner or later you succeed.It has，of course，the__9__of all the narcotics (麻醉藥).It becomes habit­forming.And once the habit is formed，sooner or later，it becomes__10__to break one’s self of it.I have never been able to break myself of the habit for fifty years.

　　1.A.survive　　　　　　　　　 B.understand

　　C.expect 　 D.feel

　　2.A.competitor 　 B.friend

　　C.workmate 　 D.relative

　　3.A.angrily 　 B.secretly

　　C.unwillingly　 D.unexpectedly

　　4.A.bottle　 B.box

　　C.parcel 　 D.bowl

　　5.A.whispered 　 B.explained

　　C.announced 　 D.screamed

　　6.A.illness　 B.weakness

　　C.sorrow　 D.disappointment

　　7.A.comfortable　 B.convenient

　　C.available 　 D.reliable

　　8.A.foolish　 B.happy

　　C.cruel 　 D.right

　　9.A.form 　 B.quality

　　C.price 　 D.side­effect

　　10.A.important 　 B.necessary

　　C.impossible 　 D.unavoidable