9 . When Susan was a high school student, her English teacher, Fred DiMeo, asked her to carry out a task: Recite (背诵) a poem in front of the whole class.
“I had a mild stutter (口吃), which tried the _________ of my classmates,” Susan said. The thought of _________ in front of the class and stuttering through the _________ was too much to bear. When the day of the recitation came, Susan, painfully shy and _________, recited the poem. Once she was done, DiMeo said something she’d never _________ before: that he liked listening to her voice. For the first time, she _________ that public speaking didn’t have to be a source of _________. “I think in his mind he just wanted me to _________ I have nothing to be afraid of,” Susan said.
Susan went on to graduate from high school and go to college. She never got to _________ thank DiMeo. Sometime after college, she managed to __________ a job as a trainer. The work made her know how big an __________ DiMeo had had on her confidence. “It’s so __________ to stand up in front of people and speak with them. And I do it all the time,” she said.
Susan recently found a way to __________ her teacher, and sent him a letter expressing her __________. “ You played a big role in my life,” she wrote. “I don't know where I would’ve gone if I felt like I had to keep my voice __________ because I was afraid of embarrassing (使尴尬) myself. ”
1. A.ability | B.patience | C.knowledge | D.pleasure |
2. A.getting up | B.falling over | C.setting off | D.crying out |
3. A.notice | B.poem | C.speech | D.room |
4. A.brave | B.relaxed | C.nervous | D.sleepy |
5. A.repeated | B.changed | C.heard | D.seen |
6. A.forgot | B.imagined | C.wrote | D.realized |
7. 8. A.explain | B.require | C.understand | D.warn |
9. A.hurriedly | B.easily | C.properly | D.secretly |
10. A.miss | B.save | C.share | D.find |
11. A.influence | B.offer | C.agreement | D.order |
12. A.awful | B.fair | C.early | D.nice |
13. A.help | B.contact | C.follow | D.protect |
14. A.questions | B.works | C.hobbies | D.thanks |
15. A.quiet | B.busy | C.loud | D.soft |