完型填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（本大题共10分，每小题1分）

People who speak or perform before the public sometimes may suffer from "Stage Fright". Stage fright makes a person   1 . In that case it can make one's mind go back and forget  2 one ought to say or to act. Actors, musicians, dancers, lawyers, even radio show hosts suffered from stage fright at one time or   3 .

Diana Nichols is an expert in helping people free from stage fright at a medical center in New York City. She helps actors learn to   4  themselves. Miss Nichols says some people have always been afraid to perform before the audience. Others, she says, develop stage fright after a sad   5 .

She offers them ways to control the fear. One way is to smile before going onto the stage. Taking two deep breaths   6  helps. Deep breathing helps you get control of your body.

Miss Nichols advises her patients to tell themselves that their speech or performance does not have to be perfect. It's   7  to make a mistake. She tells them they should not be too nervous while they are performing. It is important that they should continue to perform while she is helping them. After each performance, they discuss what happened and   8  what helped and what did not. 9  they perform more and more, they will fear less and less as much as 50%. Miss Nichols says the aim is only to  10  stage fright, not to smooth it away completely. This is because a little stage fright makes a person more careful, and improves the performance.

1.                A．joyful          B．proud          C．nervous  D．hopeless

 

2.                A．when          B．what           C．how D．whether

 

3.                A．others         B．other          C．another  D．the other

 

4.                A．cure           B．control         C．hold D．protect

 

5.                A．experience      B．activity         C．process   D．event

 

6.                A．usually         B．too            C．also  D．sometimes

 

7.                A．sure           B．terrible         C．necessary D．all right

 

8.                A．put out         B．find out         C．look for   D．search for

 

9.                A．As             B．While          C．Before   D．Until

 

10.               A．change         B．produce        C．improve   D．reduce

 

 

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【小题1】If you spend 100 dollars or more, you can ____________.

A．get a CD free	B．get 6 hours of free parking
C．get some stamps free	D．get a car free

【小题2】Buy one tie at Daniel's Menswear, you may get another _______free.

A．cheaper tie	B．more expensive tie
C．tie of the same price	D．tie of different price

【小题3】You can get a 10% discount on any books if you _______ at the Book Store.

A．buy some gifts	B．buy some tickets
C．show this coupon	D．buy some books

【小题4】If you want to have free soft drink, you can go to____________.

A．Mike's Cafe

B．the Book Store

C．Daniel’s Menswear

D．the Movie House

【小题5】If John pays 10 dollars for a full-price movie ticket on Tuesdays, he can buy a second ticket for only____________.

A．5 dollars

B．10 dollars

C．15 dollars

D．20 dollars

Before I even started school, people felt that I was not going to amount to much. At the age of four, I started speech lessons because even I could not speak well enough to be understood.
First grade was a struggle. I not only had difficulty speaking, but I was expected to learn to read and I just couldn't do it. My parents grew more and more frustrated. They bought books and offered great rewards if I could read one of them from start to finish to them. Well, with my speech problems and now my reading problems, I did not like to do reading and so refused to do it whenever possible.
Second grade was not much better. It was in the second grade that the teacher decided that I needed special education. I remember the days of taking the physical exams. However, after all that, they decided that I did not qualify for special education.
It was in third grade that a new school was built close to where I lived. I remember going there with my parents and helping to get the school ready so that we could transfer(转学). It was a happy day that we started school at Vandalia. However, things did not get better as my parent expected.
It was now time for fifth grade. Mrs. Wakefield was my teacher, and if ever there was a teacher that deserved a gold star, it was her. She did not make me feel upset. Instead, she helped me in so many ways and built my self-confidence so that I actually did believe that I could do something special. And that is just what I did.
For the past 22 years, I have been a fifth grade teacher. Because of Mrs. Wakefield's influence in my life, I am now encouraging students who have had difficulties in their lives to believe that they can overcome and become someone. I have won a large number of awards but I know that all of them belong to one fifth grade teacher who believed in me and challenged me to be all that I could be.
I still have a class picture of her with her fifth grade class hanging on the wall of my office, encouraging other teachers to reach out to their students.
【小题1】 What does the underlined phrase “amount to much” mean in Paragraph l?

A．get rich.	B．get successful.
C．get recovered.	D．become healthy.

【小题2】From the second paragraph we know that______________.

A．the writer's parents lost confidence in the writer completely

B．the writer's speech problems didn’t stop him from reading

C．the writer's parents tried many things to encourage him

D．the writer couldn't improve his speech ability from reading

【小题3】What can we infer from the passage?

A．The writer’s parents believed he could get improved in his speech ability.

B．The new school was not far away from where they lived.

C．The teachers in the new school were gold stars

D．The writer himself wanted to transfer to a new school.

【小题4】In which grade did the turning point in writer's life appear?

A．In Grade Two.	B．In Grade Three
C．In Grade Four	D．In Grade Five

【小题5】.What can we learn from the passage?

A．A good teacher is hard to find in our lives.

B．Many students have speech difficulties,

C．Confidence is very important in one's life

D．Different teaching methods work the same