I was tearing into the classroom when I ran into someone really short. He looked ______at me. “My, you’re tall,” he said. The class began to laugh. ______, I walked to my seat. Tall was the ______ word I want to hear describing a girl like me. My heart ______ when I saw my friend Reed was laughing with the rest. That was the last straw.
That was Carlos’ first day. He apologized after class, ______ out his hand, “I’m sorry I embarrassed you, but I don’t see why you are so ______.” I said sharply, “You wouldn’t understand.” He followed me a few steps, “I’m just the one who should, Karen. You and I have a lot in ______.”
It was school ______ that made me think of Carlos again. He was voted vice-president. “How come this new comer gets to be so popular?” I kept asking myself. ______ on a perfect October morning, I stopped him, “It doesn’t seem to ______ you — being short, I mean.” “Of course I mind being short. I get a stiff (僵硬的) neck every day from looking up at people like you.” “I should have known I couldn’t get a ______ answer from you.” I started up the steps. “Don’t go.” He was through ______. “Sure, it bothers me. But when I realized I was going to spend my life in this undersized skin, I decided to make the best of it and ______ on being myself.” “You seem to ______ well,” I admitted. “But being a tall girl is totally different. No boy would like to date a girl taller than him.”
“Why not let me be your manager? I can promise that you’ll soon be cool and popular.” he ______. “You sound like a soap commercial.” I said. “It’s funny you ______ say that. The trouble with you is that you’re afraid to be yourself. You are smart and pretty. ______, you are more than smart.” he insisted.
I wasn’t sure, “W-e-ll—” “Look,” he almost fell off the steps in his ______, “Prize fighters have managers, ______ do movie stars and pop singers. Besides, what have you got to lose?” I shrugged and said ______ “OK.”
I would never have believed he was going to change my life.
16. A.over | B.up | C.down | D.through |
17. A.Annoyed | B.Amused | C.Surprised | D.Satisfied |
18. A.last | B.first | C.best | D.worst |
19. A.beat | B.lost | C.sank | D.stopped |
20. A.making | B.bringing | C.laying | D.holding |
21. A.shy | B.stubborn | C.social | D.sensitive |
22. A.store | B.contrast | C.common | D.similarity |
23. A.elections | B.balls | C.clubs | D.programs |
24. 25. A.mind | B.interrupt | C.bother | D.threaten |
26. A.reasonable | B.simple | C.formal | D.direct |
27. A.laughing | B.kidding | C.apologizing | D.leaving |
28. A.depend | B.catch | C.hold | D.concentrate |
29. A.get along | B.get about | C.put through | D.put off |
30. A.offered | B.required | C.supposed | D.planned |
31. A.could | B.must | C.shall | D.should |
32. A.At last | B.In general | C.In fact | D.For example |
33. A.mind | B.eagerness | C.despair | D.fantasy |
34. 35. A.enthusiastically | B.desperately | C.unwillingly | D.aggressively |