“Scotty!” Mr. Brown, my Year 11 English teacher, called me by my nickname (绰号) across the classroom. His eyes were bright and a secret
36 was half hidden behind the beard.
Once he finished joking over my unbearable
37 , I realized he was going to read my story aloud to the class. I turned red, feeling at once both embarrassed and
38 . I had my very
39 reading audience! Though my classmates were a ‘passive audience’, it didn’t weaken my feeling of being
40 .
After that, I came to
41 those Year 11 English classes. Throughout school I had always studied hard and achieved well in my school subjects. But creative
42 was a passion, and it was not an assignment, but a way of understanding the world and of
43 my thoughts and feelings about events and attitudes.
Mr. Brown was the first to
44 me for my writing so openly. My scores were always 19/20 or 20/20. My stories were often read out to the class. He even
45 one with the respected Head of English teachers, which was the most
46 part that is impressed on my memory. But
47 that, he offered a belief in me that no other teacher had.
My school
48 often stated, ‘Candice is a quiet achiever.’ I thought it was meant as a(n)
49 for being hard-working. I was someone that no one really
50 before, but Mr. Brown managed to
51 all that by bringing me to the attention of the world. Though it was the relatively
52 world of school, it put the seed of belief in myself that some day I could be an
53 person rather than the person who faded into the background.
I
54 touch with my teacher long ago, as we do when we move away from the school system and enter life. I wish I could tell him now how much he
55 me.
| 小题1: | | A．trick | B．fear | C．surprise | D．smile |
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| 小题2: | | A．sadness | B．shyness | C．weakness | D．kindness |
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| 小题3: | | A．ashamed | B．calm | C．thrilled | D．depressed |
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| 小题4: | | A．unfriendly | B．devoted | C．small | D．first |
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| 小题5: | | A．special | B．intelligent | C．famous | D．diligent |
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| 小题6: | | A．love | B．hate | C．attend | D．miss |
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| 小题7: | | A．thinking | B．reading | C．writing | D．speaking |
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| 小题8: | | A．organizing | B．collecting | C．expressing | D．hiding |
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| 小题9: | | A．train | B．recommend | C．criticize | D．acknowledge |
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| 小题10: | | A．compared | B．shared | C．composed | D．exchanged |
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| 小题11: | | A．interesting | B．shocking | C．challenging | D．exciting |
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| 小题12: | | A．more than | B．other than | C．instead of | D．in spite of |
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| 小题13: | | A．days | B．efforts | C．books | D．reports |
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| 小题14: | | A．praise | B．urge | C．reason | D．competition |
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| 小题15: | | A．believed | B．noticed | C．supported | D．respected |
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| 小题16: | | A．forget | B．compensate | C．change | D．prove |
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| 小题17: | | A．developed | B．limited | C．preserved | D．disturbed |
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| 小题18: | | A．important | B．educated | C．honest | D．optimistic |
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| 小题19: | | A．sought | B．regained | C．lost | D．ignored |
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| 小题20: | | A．owed | B．influenced | C．satisfied | D．attracted |
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