______ by a greater demand of vegetables, farmers have built more green houses.
A. Driven B. Exhausted C. Tracked D. Balanced
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Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father___________me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is___________ for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___________ than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me, ___________my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are ____________ .This is not the worst boy at all, ___________ the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a(n) ____________ between us. No one had ever called me smart, my family and neighbors had built me up in my ___________ as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She ____________ my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more ___________ and my brother and I could be better_________ .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand____________ and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her ernthusiasm,I_________ it had already improved our lives. I accepted her ___________and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of___________ that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the __________ beneficiary (受益者).My father became the ___________ man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power ___________ has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is ____________ strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible（不可抗拒的）force which poverty and temporary defeat can never _________ .
You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.