English was always my favorite subject. In my freshman year of high school, I could write a killer composition. In my junior year, my 1 allowed me to give spelling tests to the class. I had wonderful 2 of this year. Mrs. Alexander 3 me to sit at her desk and take over the class when she had to leave the room. Only my senior English class was 4 , as we had a teacher right out of college who expected college-level work. Every student received a “C” or “D” grade the first quarter. 5 English was still my subject.
I graduated from high school, 6 early and had children. 7 about my English, I often helped my kids with their English homework. And I 8 long articles and beautiful poetry for a newspaper. Fifteen years later, I went to college, and because I had been an “A” student, I 9 an “A” student. I lived up to my own expectations.
Yesterday, I 10 my high school report cards when I was reading old papers. That bundle (捆) of report cards 11 back the old days. I remembered sitting in my advisor’s office, explaining that I had always been excellent at English and complaining that I did not 12 a “D” from that inexperienced teacher of my senior year. The advisor was 13 but unable to change a grade.
My old 14 cards showed something else too. I wanted to tear them up or 15 them. I was not an “A” student in high school English! Somehow, I had convinced myself of this, when the grades clearly reflected an 16 student with an occasional “A” or “B”, but mostly “C”s.
Had I lived up to those 17 and define (定义) myself according to those letters, I would have never confidently 18 my writing career. Had I believed in my early grades instead of myself, I would have allowed my fear of 19 to defeat my enthusiasm and damage my creativity. 20 , I regarded my younger self as an “A” English student, except for that undeserved “D”.
1. A．teacher B．headmaster C．classmate D．monitor
2. A．memories B．thoughts C．expectations D． impressions
3. A．forced B．appointed C．permitted D．begged
4. A．active B．creative C．interesting D． disappointing
5. A．So B．But C．And D．Or
6. A．worked B．married C．succeeded D． progressed
7. A．Confident B．Happy C．Sorry D． Anxious
8. A．wrote B．edited C．read D． copied
9. A．met B．lost C．admired D．remained
10. A． counted B．remembered C．discovered D．approached
11. A． turned B．brought C．held D． put
12. A． deserve B． make C．receive D． learn
13. A． sympathetic B． energetic C．angry D． sad
14. A． birthday B． post C．invitation D． report
15. A． keep B． correct C．hide D． send
16. A． silent B． bright C．average D． outstanding
17. A． figures B． grades C．papers D． words
18. A． changed B． ended C．damaged D．sought
19. A． change B． risk C． stress D． failure
20. A． Otherwise B． Besides C．Instead D． Still
In 1942, Columbus and his crew arrived ________ was so-called the New World by the westerners.
A．what B．in which C．where D．in what
The position, however, ________ you are applying, is not quite a well paid one.
A．that B．for which C．which D．to which
After a new reform, the number of the products in the factory is now ________ it was in 2003.
A．three times as larger as B．more than three times
C．twice as large as D．as twice large as
Martin and his friends didn’t eat up all the food they ordered, _____ they took the rest away.
A．so B．or C．for D．as
The film The Flowers of War, which ______ last December, is about saving a group of Chinese students in the 1930s.
A．worked out B．came out C．turned out D．broke out
