读下列短文从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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It differs greatly between wanting to become a great magician and actually doing it. In high school, I staged a show and my entire world came out to watch---friends and family members, everyone I want to impress.The audience all looked on in horror, fascination and pity, siting there mute, enduring the spectacle and waiting for the show to end.
A few years later, I staged a Harry Houdini-style underwater escape in the river that flowed through the middle of the campus of the University of lowa, where I went to school. I stood on a boat in the middle of the river wearing nothing but biking shorts and weights around my wrists and ankles. The sky was dead and gray, and the water was dead and gray, and a freezing breeze blew across its surface.
Technically, I succeeded. I jumped into the water, sank to the bottom, and escaped from the locks and the chains before swimming to the surface, But it didn't feel like a success. When Houdini did it, thousands of people turned up to watch. I had about a dozen who stopped on their way to class, and the police showed up because someone thought I was going to kill myself.
I am living proof, though, that if you throw enough time and effort at something---maybe even anything---you can become good at it. I found inspiration in Houdini’s words: The real secret to my success is simple: I work from seven in the morning to midnight and I like it. " This quote lived on a piece of paper stuck to the wall by my bed for ten years. I had hit Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hours of practice by the time I turned 22, and he's right-I got pretty good.
The week after I finished school, I drove to Los Angeles to begin my career as a
Professional magician. I have never held another job.
21. What can you learn about the show the author staged in high school?
A. It was a total failure.
B. The audience loved it.
C. He was fully prepared for it.
D. He earned a good reputation
22. Why did the author say that his water escape didn’t feel like a success?
A. The police caught him.
B. He escaped being drowned
C. Almost no one watched it.
D. It took him too long n time.
23. The author wanted to tell the renders through his story that
A. doing is better than saying
B. a good beginning makes a good ending.
C. all good things came to an end.
D. nothing is impossible to a willing heart
