一、完形填空。
For as long as he can 1
A
, Tom was interested in food and cooking.
“Weekends were filled 2
C
my dad cooking,” he says. “I just enjoyed it. I found it the coolest thing.”
When he was 9, Tom made his 3
B
meal. “Everybody liked it,” he says. “When you make a meal that people enjoy, you can feel good about yourself.”
This was a big contrast with the way he felt in school.
“I found myself learning 4
D
than everybody else and I just felt so stupid,” he says.
Tom 5
B
up in Weston, Massachusetts. By middle school, he was really struggling. Tom knew things were going to get more difficult in high school, and he wasn't sure he would 6
B
. His dad Andy says, like his son Tom, many kids have a hard time with math or English or some other 7
B
, so they're getting very negative messages at school.
Andy thought his son needed a chance to be good at something in school, but at the local high school, not a single course was 8
C
to prepare him for a career in cooking.
Tom wanted to go to a vocational school to learn cooking. Tom says, for a lot of students, especially in the 9
D
, well-educated Boston suburbs (郊区), choosing vocational school can be a hard sell to parents and teachers.
But Tom knew it was the right 10
A
for him. “I didn't want to fail out of school,” he says. “I wanted a future.” And he knew his future was cooking.
1. A. remember
B. read
C. think
D. get
2. A. of
B. in
C. with
D. without
3. A. second
B. first
C. better
D. worse
4. A. bad
B. better
C. faster
D. slower
5. A. grow
B. grew
C. bring
D. brought
6. A. graduation
B. graduate
C. complete
D. completion
7. A. items
B. subjects
C. matters
D. activities
8. A. supported
B. providing
C. offered
D. give
9. A. remote
B. fortunate
C. poor
D. rich
10. A. choice
B. thing
C. decide
D. choose
