阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“Now,” Mrs.Virginia DeView said,smiling,“we are going to discover our professions.”
The class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions?We were only 13 and 14 years old!The teacher must be____.“Yes,you will all be searching for your future____.Each of you will have to____someone in your field,plus give an oral report.”
Each day in her class,Virginia DeView reminded us about this. Finally,I picked print journalism.This____I had to go to interview a trueblue newspaper reporter. I was extremely nervous. I sat down in front of him____able to speak. He looked at me and said,“Did you bring a pencil or a pen?”
I shook my head.
“How about some____?”
I shook my head again.
Finally,I thought he realized I was____,and I got my first big tip as a____:“Never,never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what you'll run into.” After a few days,I gave my oral report totally from____in class. I got an A on the entire project.
Years later,I was in college looking around for a new career,but with no success. Then I____Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn't____me.They just reminded me how competitive the field was and____all my life I had to run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my blood.____gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was____.
For the past 12 years,I've had the most satisfying reporting career,____stories from murders to airplane crashes and____choosing my strongest area.____I went to pick up my phone one day,an incredible wave of memories hit me and I realized that had it not been____Virginia DeView,I would not be sitting at that desk.
I get____all the time:“How did you pick journalism?”
“Well,you see,there was a teacher...” I just wish I could____her.
A.good B.mad C.careless D.curious
A.university B.family C.professions D.life
A.interview B.find out C.admire D.learn from
A.expressed B.ordered C.expected D.meant
A.hardly B.nearly C.naturally D.eagerly
A.note B.newspapers C.preparations D.paper
A.satisfied B.comfortable C.terrified D.sorry
A.student B.journalist C.teacher D.writer
A.research B.books C.imagination D.memory
A.called B.recognized C.remembered D.visited
A.answer B.promise C.stop D.persuade
A.how B.whether C.why D.when
A.It B.Virginia DeView C.My parents D.My oral report
A.breaking in B.getting down C.falling off D.going on
A.making up B.listening to C.covering D.writing
A.of course B.finally C.doubtfully D.in all
A.When B.As long as C.Once D.On condition
A.for B.with C.of D.to
A.hurt B.excited C.disappointed D.asked
A.respect B.support C.thank D.favor