阅读下面短文。从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。
Teaching is challenging and teaching college is often a mixed bag. Sometimes my class feels more like a cafeteria, where students come and go, ____in the middle of my lectures. Mostly these students have entered college right out of high school. College seems to them like ____a continuation of high school, ____ the sense of newness that often drives curiosity and achievement.
But there is a category of students that gives everyone reasons for ____.They are the so called “nontraditional students” :those who, for one reason or ____, didn't go to college when they were 18. but many years later. Some years back in my teaching, while calling out names from the name list on the first day,I noticed a gray haired woman of about 70.She was wandering in the doorway, ____ her new books like a schoolgirl.
“I'm not on the name list,” she volunteered. “But I was ___if I could sit in for the first class, to see what marine (海洋) biology is about.” This woman's eagerness ____me, so I invited her to have a seat. I began the class with questions to get a (n) ____of how much knowledge they were bringing to the course. As I questioned them about the difference between fishes and seagoing mammals, most of my new students remained ___.But Natalie, the older woman, was on the edge of her seat, ____answers.At the end of the class, she came up to me and apologized for being the “extra” student. She said,“Will you ____ me another chance?” ____ at losing her, I acted quickly to remove her ____.“I'll see you next class,”I said.
Natalie turned out to be a vital and ____student.She commuted 50 miles each day to get to school, often in the severe winter, and never missed a class.___this, she was enthusiastic about helping my younger students. Apparently these older students have the ____over them. It lies in the broadth and depth of their path of life. After having ____ numerous personal and professional barriers, they have an expansive world view. ____ a return to school may, at first, be frightening for them, they tend to make it because they are ____ great trouble to put their studies into an already full life.
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A.never |
B.seldom |
C.often |
D.hardly |
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A.more than |
B.no more than |
C.rather than |
D.other than |
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A.creating |
B.inspiring |
C.involving |
D.lacking |
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A.hope |
B.desperation |
C.anger |
D.pity |
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A.the other |
B.others |
C.another |
D.none |
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A.holding |
B.buying |
C.bringing |
D.fetching |
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A.hoping |
B.expecting |
C.thinking |
D.wondering |
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A.puzzled |
B.embarrassed |
C.impressed |
D.amused |
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A.plan |
B.idea |
C.concept |
D.sense |
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A.enthusiastic |
B.calm |
C.interested |
D.silent |
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A.asking |
B.volunteering |
C.rejecting |
D.repeating |
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A.learn |
B.make |
C.offer |
D.introduce |
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A.Alarmed |
B.Relaxed |
C.Relieved |
D.Annoyed |
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A.concern |
B.curiosity |
C.attention |
D.concentration |
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A.intelligent |
B.humorous |
C.diligent |
D.open-minded |
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A.Regardless of |
B.But for |
C.Except |
D.Apart from |
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A.advantage |
B.experience |
C.ability |
D.belief |
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A.got away from |
B.got across |
C.got over |
D.got through |
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A.Unless |
B.Until |
C.When |
D.While |
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A.demanding |
B.taking |
C.sparing |
D.Escaping |
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