阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a very special teacher who made a far -reaching difference in my life
Fall ,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about begin ."Who",I asked a senior , "is Mrs McNamara,my 10th grade English teacher?"He just1and said something about my being in2Soon ,I understood what he meant. Mrs. McNamara had a pattern of3that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for4. The next day ,when we came to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard5to the homework reading. We were6to write an in -class essay about one of the topics. The following day ,she would7thd corrected and graded essays and each person would be called8to stand in front of the class and to9his\her essay. The class were required to criticize(评论)that essay,10the grade of everyone in class would be reduced
The first time that I11her read-write-criticize method, I had not12to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant.13the extreme embarrassment I suffered, standing before my classmates,14myself. No one laughed at me, no one would be15enough ,or foolish enough, to do that in Mrs. McNamara's class. The embarrassment came from16and along with it came a strong17not to let it happen again
Mrs. McNamara kept all of our written work in files, it was easy to see the18in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me. What Mrs. McNamar19me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that, I could improve myself. And I20. Thank you, Mrs. McNamara.
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A. |
nodded
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B. |
laughed
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C. |
apologized
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D. |
shouted
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2. |
A. |
trouble
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B. |
sorrow
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C. |
danger
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D. |
anger
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3. |
A. |
behavior
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B. |
evaluation
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C. |
activity
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D. |
thought
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4. |
A. |
review
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B. |
performance
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C. |
practice
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D. |
homework
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5. |
A. |
added
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B. |
related
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C. |
contributed
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D. |
advised
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A. |
expected
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B. |
persuaded
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C. |
allowed
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D. |
advised
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7. |
A. |
collect
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B. |
return
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C. |
send
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D. |
receive
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on purpose
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B. |
at first
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by chance
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in turn
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A. |
talk through
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B. |
hand over
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C. |
read out
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D. |
show off
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A. |
so
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B. |
and
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C. |
but
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D. |
or
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A. |
tried
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B. |
adopted
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C. |
examined
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D. |
experienced
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12. |
A. |
undertaken
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B. |
attempted
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C. |
examined
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D. |
experienced
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13. |
A. |
remember
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B. |
attempted
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C. |
bothered
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D. |
hesitated
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14. |
A. |
playing jokes on
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B. |
making a fool of
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C. |
trying a trap for of
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D. |
taking advantage
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15. |
A. |
brave
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B. |
careless
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C. |
proud
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D. |
selfish
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A. |
above
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B. |
within
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C. |
behind
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D. |
below
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A. |
tendency
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B. |
preference
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C. |
determination
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D. |
sense
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18. |
A. |
improvements
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B. |
pains
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C. |
difficulties
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D. |
advantages
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19. |
A. |
trusted
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B. |
invited
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C. |
forced
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D. |
permitted
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20. |
A. |
did
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B. |
could
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C. |
had
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D. |
would
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