Question

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The first couple of weeks in my writing classes are always a bit unsettling. I’m unfamiliar________ the students, most of them trying to ________ themselves to their new environment. When Jennifer ________me with a question on the second day, I was ________ for the chance to connect at least one name with a face.

Her writing wasn’t perfect, ________ her effort was. She worked hard and pushed herself to achieve. She was excited to________ , which made me enjoy teaching her. I didn’t ________ then how much she would also teach me.

One Friday afternoon, Jennifer ________ after class. She wasn’t clarifying an assignment or asking a question about a paper I’d returned. ________ , she said quietly: “I didn’t attend classes yesterday. I was at the health center the whole day.” I gave her a sideways look, ________ . “It was just a virus. I’m fine now,” she ________ me. Then she was gone.

Two nights later, her father called to tell me that Jennifer would be ________ a few classes. She had been hospitalized with meningitis(脑膜炎). I ________ him again a few days later, and again after that. Her condition grew worse. We made trips to the hospital room. I was ________ terrified when I saw the pale, thin and weak girl who, only ten days earlier, had displayed life and ________ in my classroom.

A week later, Jennifer herself called me to tell me she was on the road to ________ . “I’ll be back,” she insisted. “I have no ________ ,” I told her, fighting back tears. I remembered what her father had said in his first phone call: “School ________ everything to Jenny.”

Then five weeks later, I walked into my classroom to find Jenny in her seat, smiling. I caught my breath as her rail-thin body approached my desk, and she ________ all of her missed assignments, completed with thought and excellence. The ________of her will to overcome shone out of her pale, weak, eighteen-year-old face.

1.A. with B. for C. to D. among

2.A. expose B. devote C. adjust D. subscribe

3.A. provided B. approached C. challenged D. bothered

4.A. panicked B. ashamed C. sorry D. grateful

5.A. so B. or C. and D. but

6.A. learn B. inform C. receive D. give

7.A. suspect B. realize C. guarantee D. admit

8.A. went ahead B. broke down C. stopped by D. set out

9.A. However B. Meanwhile C. Therefore D. Instead

10.A. disappointed B. surprised C. delighted D. thrilled

11.A. comforted B. supported C. attracted D. impressed

12.A. expecting B. missing C. arranging D. attending

13.A. called on B. came across C. searched for D. heard from

14.A. hardly B. mainly C. truly D. mostly

15.A. warmth B. sadness C. shyness D. fear

16.A. recovery B. success C. school D. fame

17.A. idea B. concern C. opinion D. doubt

18.A. attaches B. means C. contributes D. delivers

19.A. took up B. left out C. handed in D. focused on

20.A. lack B. weakness C. strength D. assistance

Answer 1