短文填空
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
Betty started to learn English at the_________ of six. She went to an after-school English class every week. But Betty thought it was_________(bored) to go to her English classes. She didn’t think_______was important to learn English and she did not need to speak English in her everyday life.
After she____ a school baseball team , she started to know more about the baseball players who joined teams in the USA. Now, she wants to know more about what happens to them. So she reads English newspaper_____ the Internet. When she meets new words, she looks____up in her dictionary and writes difficult sentences in her notebooks. When she goes to school, she asks her English teacher for____ . Little by little, she finds that English is really important, and she is more and more____(interesting) in it.
Her parents promise to take her to New York to watch a baseball game if she gets good mark in the English exam next month._______ exciting it is! Betty is so happy that she works________ (hard) on English than before.