1. (2023八下·榆树期中) 完形填空

"Never give up!" is my law of life. It has brought me 1. I learned the law from my father's 2story.

My father was born in a3family in Jiangsu, China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then he4in the field till sunset. He didn't finish his homework 5midnight. Life was hard for the family because they had no6!

At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. 7was the land of gold, the land where poor people could become rich.

"8don't I go to America？" he thought to himself, full of hope.

So my father went to America. "I had thought it was easy to make money in America 9. " he told me. But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire（雇佣） me because I spoke 10English. 11I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, 12the dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was hard in the first few years. I worked from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. every day. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was13. I couldn't pay for the schooling.

My father 14working hard, and reached his goal at last.

"Alan, " he often says to me, "If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come 15in life. " That's what I learned from my father.