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Joan Rivers was determined to become a successful comedian(喜劇演員). “As far back as I remember，”she said, “I wanted a career in show business. But people were telling me no.”

She was living in a dirty cheap hotel and had been turned down by every talent agent in New York, when she got her first job in 1958. How exciting! Maybe this was her big break. But after her act on the first night, the manager called her over, saying“You're fired”．

“I was completely disappointed，”she sighed. “Fired! Fired from my first job! I went back to my hotel room helpless. I really could not stop crying.”

Soon she was booked again and then fired from her second job. “There's just no work，”all the agents would say, shaking their heads, or worse yet, “You're too old. If_you_were_going_to_make_it,_you_would_have_made_it_by_now.”Even her mother told her, “You have no talent. You're throwing your life away.”

“I had no money. My office was a phone booth(電話亭)in Grand Central Station. I lived out of one small suitcase and slept in my car，”said Joan Rivers, a famous comedian, author, mother, businesswoman and best­known for her Emmy Award­winning television talk show and many other successes.

What does Joan have to say about all those tough pre­success days? “All in all—not an easy time. It did, however, serve to shape the determination and an inner(內在的)strength that I have called on in my life many times since.”

And Joan's final words to us：“Never stop believing! Never give up! Never quit! Never！”

5．Which would be the best title for the text?

A．A Story from Joan Rivers

B．Determination Helps Make It

C．A Comedian—Joan Rivers

D．Failure Is the Mother of Success

6．The underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph implies that Joan Rivers________.

A．was an unlucky person

B．wouldn't succeed in the future

C．were too old to do anything

D．would become a great comedian

7．According to the text, Joan Rivers________.

A．once built her office in a telephone booth

B．was not good at finding jobs

C．had written many famous novels

D．did well in the television talk show

8．What's the main purpose of the text?

A．To tell readers not to give up doing anything.

B．To tell Joan Rivers's interesting story.

C．To tell readers how to find a job.

D．To tell readers how to be a great comedian.

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