阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,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 toconnect 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 anassignment 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.
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A.with |
B.for |
C.to |
D.among |
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A.expose |
B.devote |
C.adjust |
D.link |
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A.provided |
B.approached |
C.challenged |
D.bothered |
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A.eager |
B.prepared |
C.sorry |
D.grateful |
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A.learn |
B.inform |
C.receive |
D.give |
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A.suspect |
B.realize |
C.care |
D.admit |
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A.went ahead |
B.broke down |
C.stopped by |
D.set out |
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A.However |
B.Meanwhile |
C.Therefore |
D.Instead |
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A.disappointed |
B.surprised |
C.delighted |
D.thrilled |
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A.comforted |
B.supported |
C.attracted |
D.impressed |
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A.expecting |
B.missing |
C.arranging |
D.attending |
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A.called on |
B.came across |
C.searched for |
D.heard from |
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A.hardly |
B.mainly |
C.truly |
D.mostly |
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A.warmth |
B.sadness |
C.shyness |
D.fear |
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A.recovery |
B.success |
C.school |
D.fame |
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A.idea |
B.concern |
C.opinion |
D.doubt |
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A.attaches |
B.means |
C.contributes |
D.delivers |
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A.took up |
B.left out |
C.handed in |
D.focused on |
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A.lack |
B.weakness |
C.strength |
D.assistance |
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