Ifyou’vealwayshopedtogiveupyour9-to-5jobtomovetoMaineto...
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If you’ve always hoped to give up your 9-to-5 job to move to Maine to operate a restaurant, then the Center Lovell Inn, built in 1805, could make your dream come true. All you need to make it yours is $125, a postage stamp, and a 200-word essay.
In 1993, the then-owner of then inn, Smith,___21___an essay contest to find a successor(继任者). He chose Jack, who had been___22___a 50,000-square-foot restaurant in Maryland___23___winning ownership of the inn. But after more than two decades of managing the Center Lovell Inn, Jack, now 68, is ready to___24___. And he’s planning his own essay contest of find the inn’s new owner.
“There are a lot of very___25___people in the restaurant business who would like to have their own place but can’t ___26___it,” Jack told the Press Herald. “This is a way for them to have the___27___to try.”
Jack hopes to___28___at least 7,500 participants, which would earn him more than $900,000. Jack has promised to stop___29___limits to the participants after the number of them_____30_____that figure 7,500. “If I get more participants, all the better,” he said.
To apply, applicants(18 years of age and older) can_____31_____a 200-or-less-word essay on the_____32_____of why they’re the right fit, as well as a check for $125, to the Center Lovell Inn postmarked by May 7. Jack well_____33_____the applicants to a top 20 and from there, two anonymous(匿名) judges will select the new_____34_____of the inn. Jack is hopping to_____35_____the successor on May 1st, 2017.
Jack is_____36_____that just as it did last time, the essay contest will_____37_____a fitting new owner for the centuries-old inn. He said people often asked him, “ ‘What if you get the_____38_____person or what if this person lies to you’? Our answer was and is, ‘We trust.’ It was part of the_____39_____of this whole thing. And it_____40_____we were right.”
21. A. elected B. held C. attained D. undertook
22. A. obtaining B. bothering C. adoring D. managing
23. A. before B. after C. while D. for
24. A. distinguish B. retire C. pause D. operate
25. A. miserable B. thoughtful C. talented D. arbitrary
26. A. afford B. accumulate C. adjust D. purchase
27. A. justice B. procedure C. assumption D. opportunity
28. A. govern B. astonish C. attract D. comfort
29. A. indicating B. setting C. reflecting D. acknowledging
30. A. arrives B. strikes C. associates D. reaches
31. A. send B. prepare C. donate D. preserve
32. A. reform B. breakthrough C. competence D. topic
33. A. keep up B. narrow down C. apply for D. cast down
34. A. owner B. authority C. interpreter D. volunteer
35. A. identify B. remark C. announce D. resist
36. A. reasonable B. thankful C. confident D. conservative
37. A. pick out B. team up with C. bring back D. call up
38. A. current B. innocent C. cautious D. wrong
39. A. means B. drawback C. magic D. hardship
40. A. lived on B. turned out C. marked out D. set aside
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