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河北省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：完形填空（8） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项. I had three jobs growing up in Salem, Mass., and they all helped shape my life. When I was about 12, I started carrying bags for golfers at a nearby club. All the kids in the neighborhood did it, and I liked it a lot. I got to ___1__ people who were generally pretty __2__ businessmen and doctors—talk about deals, and see how they __3__with each other. It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. I got another job at Parker Brothers games, __4__ small holes in pieces of cork（软木塞）for a game called Dig. I liked Parker, but not the job. It lasted about a month, and I ____ that I never wanted to do anything like that again, ever. The third job was at a Thom McAn shoe store. I __6__ met people from all __7__of life, and the challenge was exciting. I’d start __8__them different kinds of shoes and get right down there and put them on their feet. __9__ they didn’t like a certain shoe, I always tried to be thinking ahead to a pair they might like __10__. This job helped teach me an important __11__ lesson: it’s all about __12__the sale. I never wanted to let a __13__ get out of that store without buying a pair of shoes. It was like stepping up to the plate in a __14__game. ___15___ someone walked into that store, I was going to bat and taking a __16__. I’d get a seven-cent commission（酬金）for every pair I ____, 25 cents for the slow __18__, such as those that were out of stock (脱销)or of an odd color. | 
