Ⅱ.阅读理解(8 min.)When I was fourteen years old, I was hired for an afterschool job selling subscriptions (订阅) to my hometown paper,
Even though I was often scrambling (moving with difficulty) around after dark in bad areas searching for tatty (简陋的) apartments, ecially a kid trying to get them to buy something. One time, a man slammed his door in my face and screamed, 揑 don't want the damn paper.?I forced myself to knock again and was able to tell him how great the paper was. I ended up selling him a subscriptiD.on. I was soon among the top subscription sellers and like other successful salesmen, was given responsibility for training newcomers.
Around this time, I started playing the harmonica (口琴) and the guitar. Before long I was playing in a band at chill (红辣椒) cooking competitions and other events. When I turned 18, I focused my attention on becoming a professional musician. I never lost sight of this dream. I'm sure my perseverance came from what I learned knocking on strangers' doors.
That experience helped me in many ways. Early in my music career I was locked in a legal dispute with a former manager. He pressured me to back off from the job, but I refused.
Having all those doors slammed in my face as a kid gave me the strength to stand up to this intimidating (令人生畏的) figure. Except this time there was one difference: I was the one saying no. And I won.sman.
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