1 (一) My Teacher in the School of Life I spent the opening day of school this year at DeMatha Catholic High School in much the same way I spent the first day of classes exactly 30 years ago: I sat in Dr Charles E. Offutt’s British literature class, listening to him __1__ what his seniors would learn and get them excited about the journey they would take. I’m the principal(校长) of the school now, but for a few minutes I was back in 1975, __2__ what the future held. I have been learning from Dr Offutt for 30 of the 51 years he has been teaching at DeMath
A.He not only taught me to think, he __3__ me, as much by example as words, that it was my moral duty to do so and to serve others. Neither of us could know how our __4__ would develop over the years. When I first came back to DeMatha to teach English, I worked for Dr Offutt, then the department chair. After several years, I was __5__ department chair, and our relationship changed again. I thought that it might be __6__chairing the department, since all of my former English teachers were still there, but Dr Offutt __7__ me th roughout. He knew when to give me __8__ about curriculum, texts and personnel, and when to let me design my own course. In 1997, I needed his advice about leaving DeMatha to become principal at another school. If he had asked me to stay at DeMatha, I might have. Instead, he encouraged me to seize the new __9__ . Five years ago, I became the principal of DeMatha. Once again , Dr Offutt was there for me, letting me know that I could__10__ on him as I tried to fill such big shoes. I’ve learned from him that great teachers have a(an) __11__ wealth of lessons to teach. Even if his students don’t know it yet, I know how __12__ they are; I’m still one of them. 作者从一所学校的普通学生成长为该校的老师，后来又接任校长职务，期间一直得到一个人的帮助，作者为拥有这样的良师而感到庆幸。A.explain
B.predict
C.speak
D.teach
开始考试练习点击查看答案2 (二) Try It a Different Way Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a tough working-class neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. By tradition he should have been, like his father or like most of his childhood pals, a construction worker or a policeman. But he wanted out. Attracted by the bright lights from the time Bobby was a teen, he tried to act . “I wasn’t a __13__ actor, but I had a driving need to do something __14__ with my life，” he says. He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his __15__ . But he didn’t make it. For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter, __16__ at an actors’ workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his __17__ career. In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a mob-li nked killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was __18__ to his life. Called Half-Deserted Streets, it was based on his b rother’s __19__ and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer happened to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay. His __20__ grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was again out of work and out of cash __21__ he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on a script but every studio turned it down. Moresco believed so __22__ in the script that he borrowed money, and sold his house. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance. The movie, Crash，__23__ into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It won three Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing. At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an __24__ success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the pr oblems，” he says, “think about the ways to get it done. ” Bobby Moresco出身普通工人家庭，他想摆脱当建筑工人或警察的命运，希望能成为演员，并克服了种种困难为之奋斗了数十年，最后终于成了一位著名的剧作家。
A.simple
B.strict
C.firm
D.good
开始考试练习点击查看答案3 (三) My first job was in what they ca ll the city center. The __25__ was large, dark and old and the physics lecture room was on the second floor. __26__， it wasn’t a lecture room at all, it was an ordinary room, but it had “LECTURE ROOM” on the __27__ .The students were sixteen or seventeen years old, only several years younger than me. __28__， some of them looked and acted even older than me sometimes. The room was directly above the street, and had the window looking out over t he street and many houses. One day, I was __29__ some words on the blackboard when I heard a sudden change in the noise behind me. There was a man standing in the room with __30__ an apple in his hand. He looked __31__ . “Who threw this？” he asked, looking round the class. “I beg your pardon？” I said. Was this the school inspector(督学)？“ Someone threw this apple out of the window，” he said. “It __32__ on my car.” “Who threw an apple out of the window？” I __33__ to the class. There was no answer. “I __34__ the fellow who threw this.” said the man. “I will wait outside for you.” And then he left, slamming the door. There was silence and I continued with the lesson. At the end of every lesson, a bell rang, usually the class were all __35__ before it finished ringing, leaving me saying “That’s all for today” to an empty room. This time, when the bell went for the end of the lesson, no one __36__ .“That’s all for today，” I said. “You go first, sir.” said one of the boys. It made a nice change, being first out. 初为人师却遇到了棘手的问题。在上课过程中有人到教室声称学生将苹果扔到了他的车上，然而自己得体的处理办法赢得了学生的尊重。
A.room
B.building
C.floor
D.city
开始考试练习点击查看答案4 (四) I stood by and watched her and her mother busily decorating her college dorm(宿舍). Everything was in place, with boxes under the bed and photos of her dearest friends on the wall. I closely monitored that this time things were __37__ . I began to accept that her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours, our room for her when she visits. I __38__ myself thinking of when I held her in my arms sitting in a chair by my wife’s hospital __39__ . One day old. So small, so beautiful, so perfect, so totally reliant on her new parents. My wife changed from the day I drove this little baby home from the __40__ . I saw myself differently that day, too. The last few days __41__ she left for college, I touched her arm, her face—anything, __42__ that when my wife and I returned home, she would not be with us and there would be nothing to touch. I had so much to say, but no words with which to say it. Suddenly she looked up, __43__ me staring at her, which caused her to say to her mother, “Mom. Dad’s looking at me funny.” She then said, “It’ll be fine, Dad. I’ll be home from school soon.” I told her she would have a __44__ year. But I said little else. I was __45__ that I would say something too small for what I was feeling, so I only held on to our g oodbye hug a little longer, a little tighter. My wife’s eyes followed her as she left us. Mine did not. I __46__ she hadn’t gone. I knew that the life she was going towards was exciting and wonderful. I remembered what the world looked like to me when everything was __47__ . On the way back home, my eyes were wet, my heart sore, and I realized that my __48__ was changed forever. 女儿上大学了，看着女儿跟她的母亲一起细心地整理自己的寝室，父亲不由得想起了许多往事，从初为人父的喜悦到送女儿上大学的酸楚，心中久久不能平静。但女儿面对的是灿烂的未来，心中虽有不舍，但也得主动适应新生活的变化。
A.important
B.enjoyable
C.convenient
D.different
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