完形填空 I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area．My paren

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I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area．My parents 1 the necessities of life 2 they couldn’t give much more．If I asked my father 3 a pair of jeans, he would say, “If you want them, make the money and buy them 4．” He wasn’t being mean; he just couldn’t 5 them．From age 12 on, I did part-time jobs after school．

When I 6 from high school, I joined the navy．Soon I was in a boot camp(新兵训练营) at Parris Island, S．C．, where I learned that life in the navy centered around completing daily 7．These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock(模拟的) battles．Completing these tasks successfully 8 discipline, team-work and responsibility．It didn’t 9 whether you were black, white or Asian; everyone worked together for the 10 of the company．

I went 11 to graduate from the U．S．Naval Academy and later became an officer in the navy．The part of my job I 12 most was the comseling(咨询) meeting I 13　with the family members of the men and women in my 14, trying to help them deal with the long periods of 15．These proved popular and word of them spread．16 I was being asked to give encouraging 17 to business groups, educators and keds across the country．

But I consider the boot camp my first real 18, and my life is still guided by the 19 lessons I hearned there．It taught me discipline, friendship and the pride related to setting a task every day and working hard to 20 it．

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