2014届高三英语二轮专题复习测试题：完形填空19.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮专题复习测试题：完形填空 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Just north of the airport in Phoenix, in one of America’s most noisy and violent neighborhoods, if you listen closely, you can hear a chorus of small voices from a classroom in a white brick school building. Brenda Combs is 36 her students in song. “When we wake up in the morning,” she 37 in a passionate voice, “we can brush our teeth … comb our hair … eat some food ... and get ready for a 38 day.” The kids in this summer class 39 in age from 5 to 12 and, like most pupils at StarShine Academy—a school 40 kindergarten through 12th grade—come from Phoenix’s poorest families. Some of their parents are drug addicts; 41 are homeless. The woman by the chalkboard, in her opinion, has 42 a kind of success that once would have seemed well 43 her grasp. Combs, who runs the summer program and teaches third and fourth grades the rest of the year, was recently 44 in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. When she received her master’s in 45 from Grand Canyon University last spring, First Lady Laura Bush sent 46 on her graduation. As Combs was being interviewed on CNN, the university’s CEO 47 up with a surprise graduation present: a full scholarship toward a PhD. “Brenda is extremely 48 ,” says StarShine Academy’s founder, Patricia McCarty. “I often think of how many people used to walk by her and say, ‘She’s a(an) 49 .’ ” What makes Combs such an extraordinary educator of 50 children—the kind whose students 51 later to thank her—may be the years she spent living on the streets as a desperate crazy addict. She slept under bridges and 52 through rubbish containers for breakfast. And she 53 used a comb or a toothbrush. Combs, 45, likes to show teenage students her “before” 54 , which portray a tired, dirtied “throwaway” with cold eyes. “ 55 and abused,” she says, “I know what it’s like to want to get high. They trust me because I’ve be