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高邮市界首中学高三英语练习与测试 高三备课组 主备人：徐冬梅 2009、1、2  PAGE 5 高三英语纠错测试 8 一、完形填空 （共20小题; 每小题1分，满分20分） “Are you too stupid to do anything right?” These words — said by a woman to a little boy who was obviously her son — were spoken 1 he had walked away from her. The boy returned, his eyes down-cast. Not a 2 moment, perhaps, 3 small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words—though they mean 4 at the time to the people who say them—can have great 5 . I recently heard a story from a man named Malcolm Dalkoff. For the last 24 years he has been a professional 6 . Here is what he told me: As a boy in Rock Island, Dalkoff was terribly 7 . He had few 8 and no self-confidence. One day, his English teacher, Ruth Brach, gave the class an assignment（作业）. The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Now they were to write their own chapter that would 9 the last chapter of the novel. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it 10 . Today he can not recall anything 11 about the chapter he wrote, or what 12 Mrs. Branch gave him. What he does remember is the four words Mrs. Brach wrote in margin（空白处）of the paper：“This is 13 writing.” Four words. They 14 his life. “ 15 I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or 16 I was going to be.”he said.“After reading her note, I went home and wrote a short story, something I had always been 17 of doing but never believed I could do.” Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories and always brought them to school for Mrs. Brach to evaluate. She was 18 , tough and honest. “She was just what I 19 ,” Dalkoff said. His confidence 20 . Dalkoff believes that none of this would have happened if that woman had not written those four words in the margin of his paper. （ ）1. A. where B. why C. because D. when （ ）2. A. wonderful B. difficult C. funny D. bi