Did you ever have a dream? I’m not talking about a dream you have when you sleep. I’m talking about a conscious ___21___where you would like to see a new future, a different choice of employment, and a___22___ of you own. How many times have you wished that you could be living in a different___23___than the one you are___24___ experiencing?
Several years ago, I had a dream about inventing a board game that would____25____my life's fortunes. After many revisions, a board game was developed. It was a(n)___26___ time. Our dream seemed to come true with sales starting to accumulate, and our company was also ____27____
___28___, another new board game____29____the market and made great progress in sales. Eventually, our company was dissolved.
Perhaps for a game developer, the___30___emotions that it never was meant to be will discourage his future dreams of a different life. But to me, maybe I didn't succeed to the level I____31____, at the very least I turned my dream____32____a reality. ____33____I had never transferred my dream into goal and then to action, there wouldn't have been ____34____lessons to be learned from the failure. It may take many____35____but success is only achieved. Once dreams are ___36___action, failure becomes a ___37___action plans in future. The important_____38_____here is that success only comes by turning dreams into reality and realizing that____39____are only stepping-stones to final success. After many attempts, many failures, many lessons and many false starts, learn valuable lessons from failure, tum dreams into____40____, and don't let a dream only be a dream, success will arrive at last.
21. A. future B. life C. dream D. plan
22. A. factory B. farm C. car D. business
23. A. environment B. school C. family D. society
24. A. enjoyably B. previously C. constantly D. currently
25. A. destroy B. realize C. change D. create...
26. A. exciting B. terrible C. dark D. embarrassing
27. A. canceled B. combined C. disappeared D. founded
28. A. Unfortunately B. Unlikely C. Unconsciously D. Unfairly
29. A. came into B. left out C. came back D. took in
30. A. optimistic B. negative C. difficult D. positive
31. A. needed B. devoted C. desired D. begged
32. A. by B. on C. over D. into
33. A. Unless B. If C. After D. Before
34. A. valuable B. successful C. useless D. cruel
35. A. analyses B. designs C. attempts D. revisions
36. A. took up B. look into C. run across D. put into
37. A. good B. better C. most D. bad
38. A. meaning B. point C. truth D. purpose
39. A. efforts B. achievements C. possibilities D. difficulties
40. A. heart B. existence C. action D. ambition