第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
When I was about 12, I suddenly developed a great passion (strong feeling) for writing poetry. I gave up all my other hobbies, such as 36 stamps, and spent all my 37 time reading poetry and writing it. This habit of writing poetry on every possible time soon got me 38 trouble at school. If a lesson didn’t interest me, I 39 take out my notebook and start 40 poems in class. Of course I 41 this very cautiously, but it was not 42 I got caught. One day while I was 43 writing a poem during a geography lesson, I looked up to 44 the teacher standing over me, fuming with anger because I was not 45 attention. He tore the poem up, with a 46 not to waste time in his lesson.
47 I felt certain that I had written a good poem , 48 that evening I wrote it out again from 49．Not long after, I read 50 a poetry contest and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up 51, I got a letter informing me that I had won first 52．Everyone at school was very surprised, 53 the geography teacher, who 54 me more carefully than ever. He 55 that I not write poetry in his class!
36．A．gathering B．collecting C．keeping D．picking
37．A．spare B．important C．extra D．other
38．A．with B．to C．into D．on
39．A．might B．ought to C．should D．would
40．A．writing B．reading C．reciting D．enjoying
41．A．made B．got C．opened D．did
42．A．long ago B．long before C．soon after D．soon before
43．A．happy B．angry C．busy D．sad
44．A．find B．warn C．ask D．answer
45．A．calling B．devoting C．giving D．paying
46．A．notice B．look C．warning D．word
47．A．At the same B．All the same C．At the time D．The same as
48．A．so B．and C．as D．since
49．A．brain B．memory C．mind D．reciting
50．A．through B．courage C．hope D．wish
52．A．victory B．position C．prize D．gift
53．A．expect B．besides C．as well as D．especially
54．A．guarded B．watched C．observed D．inspected
55．A．suggested B．requested C．promised D．insisted