2 . Sometimes, it is really difficult for a teacher during his first week writing classes. I’m unfamiliar _________ the students, most of whom trying to adapt to their new environment and _________ on their study. When Serlina _________ me with a question on the second day, I was _________ for the opportunity to connect at least one name with a face.
Although her writing wasn’t perfect, she still tried her best. She worked hard and pushed herself to achieve. She was excited to learn, _________ made me enjoy teaching her. I didn’t realize then how much she would also teach me at that time.
Serlina stopped by after class, one Thursday afternoon. She wasn’t 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 away.
However, three nights later, her father called to tell me that Serlina would be missing a few classes. She had been in hospital with meningitis (脑膜炎). I heard from him again a few days later, and again after that. Her condition grew _________. We made trips to the hospital room. I was __________ frightened when I saw the pale, thin and weak girl who, only ten days earlier, had showed life and warmth in my classroom.
A week later, Serlina herself called me to tell me she was on the road to __________. “I’ll be back to school one day,” she said. “You must have a/an __________ to be with us,” I told her, __________ tears. I remembered what her father had said in his first phone call: “school __________ everything to Serlina.”
Then four weeks later, I walked into my classroom to find Serlina in her seat, smiling. She __________ all of her missed homework, completed with thought and excellence. The strength of her will to overcome shone out of her pale, weak, eighteen-year-old face.
1. 2. A.concentrate | B.turn | C.depend | D.take |
3. A.offered | B.disturbed | C.challenged | D.approached |
4. A.grateful | B.anxious | C.disappointed | D.embarrassed |
5. 6. A.Thus | B.Instead | C.Therefore | D.Besides |
7. A.satisfied | B.generous | C.delighted | D.shocked |
8. A.comforted | B.supported | C.attracted | D.impressed |
9. A.better | B.slighter | C.worse | D.heavier |
10. A.hardly | B.rarely | C.frequently | D.truly |
11. A.recovery | B.success | C.adventure | D.pressure |
12. A.view | B.impact | C.opinion | D.opportunity |
13. A.giving back | B.holding back | C.leaving back | D.turning back |
14. A.replaces | B.imagines | C.means | D.exchanges |
15. A.brought in | B.turned in | C.took in | D.gave in |