At the age of seven, I started school in London. There I met a ____1____, Mr. King. He influenced my whole life. Mr King taught me maths. He was humorous. Sometimes, he told us funny stories. So his lessons made us ____2____.

One day, Mr. King stopped me ____3____ I was on my way home. He took out a piece of paper with some maths exercises on it. ____4____ a smile, he asked. “Would you like to have a try my kid? ” I was a hit surprised and took ____5____ exercises home. I worked hard that night.

The next day when I gave part of the answers to him he ____6____ checked them and said “Well done! I believe your love for maths will help you with the rest.”

After Mr. King encouraged me, I ____7____ all my free time on the exercises. A week later. I succeeded! Mr. King gave more exercises to me, ____8____ me to make great progress. Every time ____9____ the problems, I have a lot of fun. Exercises became harder and I put effort (努力）into maths.

I enjoyed maths. It was Mr. King that opened the ____10____ to maths for me and led me in, thankful to Mr. King.

根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

1.

A．

worker

B．

visitor

C．

teacher

2.

A．

bored

B．

interested

C．

sleepy

3.

A．

while

B．

until

C．

after

4.

A．

For

B．

With

C．

About

5.

A．

this

B．

those

C．

that

6.

A．

carefully

B．

hardly

C．

angrily

7.

A．

cost

B．

paid

C．

spent

8.

A．

expect

B．

to expect

C．

expecting

9.

A．

gave out

B．

worked out

C．

ran out

10.

A．

door

B．

box

C．

sofa