完形填空(共20小题:每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面的短文,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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Now ,”Mrs. Virginia DeView said, smiling, “we are g
oing to discover our professions .”
The class seems to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be
_36 _ . “Yes, you will all be searching for your future
37 . Each of you will have to
38 someone in your field, plus give an oral report.”
Each day in her class, Virginia DeView reminded us about this. Finally, I picked print journalism. This
_39_ I had to go to interview a true-blue newspap
er reporter. I was extremely nervous. I sat down in front of him_
40_ able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”I shook my head.
“How about some
41_ ?”I shook my head again .
Finally , I thought he realized I was
42 , and I got my first big tip as a
43 : “Never,never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what you’ll run into. ”After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from
44 in class. I got an A on the entire project. Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career, but with no success. Then I _
45 _ Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t
__46__ me. They just reminded me how competitive the field was and
47 all my life I had to run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my blood. _
48__ gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask
what was
49 . For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career, __
50 __ stories from murders to airplane crashes and
51 choosing my strongest area.
52 _ I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible wave of memories hit me and I realized that had it not been __
53__ V
irg
inia DeView, I would not be sitting at that desk.
I get
54 all the time: “How did you pick journalism?”
“Well, you see, there was a teacher…”I just wish I could
55 her.
小题1: | A.good | B.mad | C.careless | D.curious | |
小题2: | A.university | B.family | C.professions | D.life | |
小题3: | A.interview | B.find out | C.admire | D.learn from | |
小题4: | A.expressed | B.ordered | C.expected | D.meant | |
小题5: | A.hardly | B.nearly | C.naturally | D.eagerly | |
小题6: | A.drink | B.newspapers | C.preparations | D.paper | |
小题7: | A.satisfied | B.comfortable | C.terrified | D.sorry | |
小题8: | A.student | B.journalist | C.teacher | D.writer | |
小题9: | A.research | B.books | C.imagination | D.memory | |
小题10: | A.called | B.recognized | C.remembered | D.visited | |
小题11: | A.answer | B.promise | C.stop | D.persuade | |