2 . In my freshman year, I asked myself, “Why am I in school?” I thought I was forced to be there, but I decided just to get along with it until I could find it _________.
One day it finally hit me. We were studying Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in our _________ class. Each of us was asked to _________ a part, and I jokingly _________ to play the nurse. They all laughed, thinking that I, a boy, couldn’t play it, _________ I decided I was going to be the best nurse ever to appear on the stage of the freshman writing class. On the day of the _________, I walked slowly onto the stage and put my heart and soul into the play. The _________ look on my peers’ faces let me know that my performance was excellent, and then I knew what _________ meant to me. School was then a place where I could explore _________ areas in my mind. Perhaps this realization had __________ appeared before I had never been brave enough to __________ it.
To feed my new-found hunger for learning, I decided that I wouldn’t be __________ any more. I began raising my hand higher in class discussions; I was at the point where I no longer felt __________ to take part in, but did because I wanted to. In oral communication class, I chose unpopular speech __________ like “The Flat Tax” and made them __________ by creating characters. In British literature class, I chose to write a song for a creative project on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. __________ these creative activities, I made classes interesting not only for me, but also for my classmates and teachers.
In short, I’ve discovered that __________ is not something teenagers are forced to experience. __________, learning is a way teenagers grow. What I want to __________ my classmates is that I’m a brave and creative actor, musician and writer, whose __________ each of my teachers knows by the end of their first class, and will be reinforced each day through my brave behavior.
1. A.lucky | B.powerful | C.believable | D.meaningful |
2. A.history | B.writing | C.listening | D.literature |
3. A.play | B.watch | C.enjoy | D.imagine |
4. A.afforded | B.remembered | C.promised | D.volunteered |
5. 6. A.experiment | B.competition | C.discussion | D.performance |
7. A.embarrassed | B.surprised | C.confused | D.worried |
8. A.dream | B.family | C.school | D.childhood |
9. A.unknown | B.unfriendly | C.unfair | D.uncomfortable |
10. A.often | B.never | C.ever | D.already |
11. A.make | B.judge | C.leave | D.discover |
12. A.shy | B.calm | C.curious | D.lazy |
13. A.prepared | B.encouraged | C.forced | D.determined |
14. A.goals | B.topics | C.models | D.plans |
15. A.ordinary | B.natural | C.valuable | D.interesting |
16. A.Without | B.Through | C.Except | D.Before |
17. A.learning | B.singing | C.speaking | D.training |
18. A.Instead | B.Still | C.Therefore | D.However |
19. A.follow | B.know | C.tell | D.accept |
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