When Charles Lee handed me the small red notebook in 1974, he changed my life. “While travelling, you should keep notes on the things you see and do. ____ , you will forget them some day,” he explained. I was staying in his house when travelling in England. I took his_______.I wrote in the notebook every day during the homestay and back to university. I recorded weekend trips, my professors and ideas about my life and future.
When I wrote, I wondered about my _____and purpose. Who would read this? Was I recording events and ideas just as a reminder to memory, or was there some larger purpose for this______exercise?
I got a big picture for the task. I was recording events, thoughts, words that were______to my life. I ____ a future me sitting down to read the pages. I wondered what it would feel like to read those words later.
I filled the notebook Charles gave me. I bought a new one and ____ it. Then another and another.
Recently, I decided to look through my notebooks in the past 42 years. Charles had been______. I remembered the big ____ , the central happenings, but on each page were details I had ____ .
I hadn’t written every day, but I always picked up the______ when it felt important. I often wrote in them at school ____ my students were writing. I wanted to pass on the _____ Charles had given me. These writings formed a continuous ____ between my past, present, and future through events in my life.
It took several long evenings to read through my notebooks. As I read, I suddenly realized they are a gift to the ___ me-----I am now the person I was writing to throughout those years.
16. A.So | B.Instead | C.Moreover | D.Otherwise |
17. A.donation | B.reward | C.advice | D.promise |
18. A.listeners | B.readers | C.students | D.professors |
19. A.daily | B.weekly | C.monthly | D.yearly |
20. A.common | B.important | C.practical | D.similar |
21. A.imagined | B.remembered | C.enjoyed | D.expected |
22. A.wrote | B.filled | C.gathered | D.increased |
23. A.patient | B.serious | C.right | D.wrong |
24. A.mistakes | B.problems | C.accidents | D.events |
25. A.forgotten | B.avoided | C.kept | D.improved |
26. A.drawing | B.travelling | C.reading | D.writing |
27. A.when | B.until | C.before | D.after |
28. A.notebook | B.house | C.lesson | D.effort |
29. A.production | B.connection | C.instruction | D.situation |
30. A.late | B.past | C.present | D.future |