完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
When I was about twelve, I suddenly developed a great passion(热情) for writing poetry(诗). I gave up all my other hobbies, such as ______ stamps and spent all my ____   time reading poetry and writing it. This habit of writing poetry on every possible time soon got me ____     trouble at school. If a lesson did not interest me, I ______   take out my notebook and ______  poems in class. Of course I ____ ___ this very cautiously(小心地), but it was not ________ I got caught. One day while I was __ ____ writing a poem during a geography lesson, I looked up _____   the teacher standing over me, fuming with anger (=" getting" very angry) because I was not _____    attention. He tore the poem up, with a____   not to waste time in his lesson._____  I felt certain that I had written a good poem,___ _  that evening I wrote it out again from  ________ . Not long after, I read _____   a poetry contest and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up ______ , I got a letter informing me I had won first________. Everyone at school was very impressed,_____    the geography teacher, who______  me more carefully than ever. He  _____    that I not write poetry in his class!

A．gathering B．collecting C．keeping D．picking

A．spare B．important C．extra D．other

A．with B．to C．into D．on

A．might B．ought to C．should D．would

A．start writing B．ought to C．should D．would

A．wrote B．was writing C．was doing D．did

A．long ago B．long before C．soon after D．soon before

A．busy at B．busy over C．busy D．busy with

A．to find B．finding out C．to look for D．searching

A．calling B．devoting C．giving D．paying

A．notice B．look C．warning D．word

A．At the same B．All the same C．At the time D．The same as

A．so B．and C．as D．since

A．brain B．memory C．mind D．reciting

A．through B．in C．from D．about

A．success B．courage C．hope D．wish

A．victory B．position C．prize D．gift

A．except B．besides C．as well as D．especially

A．guarded B．watched C．observed D．inspected

A．suggested B．requested C．promised D．insisted