2014届高考英语二轮专题测试精选：完形填空82.docVIP

2014届高考英语二轮专题测试精选：完形填空 1.阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。 English was always my favorite subject. In my freshman year of high school, I could write a killer composition. In my junior year, my 11 allowed me to give spelling tests to the class. I had wonderful 12 of this year. Mrs. Alexander 13 me to sit at her desk and take over the class when she had to leave the room. Only my senior English class was 14 , as we had a teacher right out of college who expected college-level work. Every student received a “C” or “D” grade the first quarter. 15 English was still my subject. I graduated from high school, 16 early and had children. 17 about my English, I often helped my kids with their English homework. And I 18 long articles and beautiful poetry for a newspaper. Fifteen years later, I went to college, and because I had been an “A” student, I 19 an “A” student. I lived up to my own expectations. Yesterday, I 20 my high school report cards when I was reading old papers. That bundle (捆) of report cards 21 back the old days. I remembered sitting in my advisor’s office, explaining that I had always been excellent at English and complaining that I did not 22 a “D” from that inexperienced teacher of my senior year. The advisor was 23 but unable to change a grade. My old 24 cards showed something else too. I wanted to tear them up or 25 them. I was not an “A” student in high school English! Somehow, I had convinced (使信服) myself of this, when the grades clearly reflected an 26 student with an occasional (偶然的) “A” or “B”, but mostly “C”s. Had I lived up to those 27 and define (定义) myself according to those letters, I would have never confidently 28 my writing career. Had I believed in my early grades instead of myself, I would have allowed my fear of 29 to defeat my enthusiasm and damage my creativity. 30 , I regarded my younger self as an “A” English student, except for that undeserved “D”