English was always my favorite subject. In my freshman year of high school, I could write a killer composition. In my junior year, my
1 allowed me to give spelling tests to the class. I had wonderful
2 of this year. Mrs. Alexander
3 me to sit at her desk and take over the class when she had to leave the room. Only my senior English class was
4 , 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.
5 English was still my subject.
I graduated from high school,
6 early and had children.
7 about my English, I often helped my kids with their English homework. And I
8 long articles and beautiful poetry for a newspaper. Fifteen years later, I went to college, and because I had been an “A” student, I
9 an “A” student. I lived up to my own expectations.
Yesterday, I
10 my high school report cards when I was reading old papers. That bundle (捆) of report cards
11 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
12 a “D” from that inexperienced teacher of my senior year. The advisor was
13 but unable to change a grade.
My old
14 cards showed something else too. I wanted to tear them up or
15 them. I was not an “A” student in high school English! Somehow, I had convinced myself of this, when the grades clearly reflected an
16 student with an occasional “A” or “B”, but mostly “C”s.
Had I lived up to those
17 and define (定义) myself according to those letters, I would have never confidently
18 my writing career. Had I believed in my early grades instead of myself, I would have allowed my fear of
19 to defeat my enthusiasm and damage my creativity.
20 , I regarded my younger self as an “A” English student, except for that undeserved “D”.
| 小题1: | | A．teacher | B．headmaster | C．classmate | D．monitor |
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| 小题2: | | A．memories | B．thoughts | C．expectations | D． impressions |
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| 小题3: | | A．forced | B．appointed | C．permitted | D．begged |
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| 小题4: | | A．active | B．creative | C．interesting | D． disappointing |
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| 小题6: | | A．worked | B．married | C．succeeded | D． progressed |
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| 小题7: | | A．Confident | B．Happy | C．Sorry | D． Anxious |
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| 小题8: | | A．wrote | B．edited | C．read | D． copied |
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| 小题9: | | A．met | B．lost | C．admired | D．remained |
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| 小题10: | | A． counted | B．remembered | C．discovered | D．approached |
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| 小题11: | | A． turned | B．brought | C．held | D． put |
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| 小题12: | | A． deserve | B． make | C．receive | D． learn |
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| 小题13: | | A． sympathetic | B． energetic | C．angry | D． sad |
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| 小题14: | | A． birthday | B． post | C．invitation | D． report |
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| 小题15: | | A． keep | B． correct | C．hide | D． send |
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| 小题16: | | A． silent | B． bright | C．average | D． outstanding |
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| 小题17: | | A． figures | B． grades | C．papers | D． words |
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| 小题18: | | A． changed | B． ended | C．damaged | D．sought |
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| 小题19: | | A． change | B． risk | C． stress | D． failure |
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| 小题20: | | A． Otherwise | B． Besides | C．Instead | D． Still |
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