阅读下面短文，用括号内的所给的动词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词或情态动词。

   Middle school life is coming to an end. Different students have different memories(记忆). Let’s take a look at two of the unforgettable memories.

   Li Xiaohui, 15

   My most unforgettable experience was the running for the PE test. When I   1   (run), I was too tired to go on. all my classmates came up to me and cheered me up. their encouragement helped me finish the run! I   2   never    2   (forget) it!

   Gao Mingyi, 16

   The most important one to me was my English teacher. Last year, when she   3    (know) I had given up an English-speaking contest, she told me, “any opportunity is important and you don’t know the result until you   4   (finish) it. Don’t give up easily.” Later on, I made my good use of every opportunity I had and achieved good results.

My teachers suggested that I see a speech specialist (专家) in school.

I never really gave much thought to my speech. If other people understood what I was saying, then that was good enough. I didn’t mind repeating myself many times.

Before testing me, the speech specialist asked me what I thought of having good speech. I told her I thought it was not important.

“Well, when you are in an interview for a job, and they don’t know what you are saying, what are they going to say to you? Nice meeting you, bye,” she said.

Maybe good speech was important. I took part in 20-minute classes each week with the specialist.

After she tested me, she told me that I spoke too fast, and didn’t give enough eye contact (眼神交流). I learned that when I made eye contact with someone, it meant that I was talking to that person, and I could also see what he or she thought about what I was saying.

When my first speech class started, I found that I had been speaking too fast to be understood. Every time I spoke too fast, the specialist stopped me and told me to start again. At first, I got stopped after almost every other sentence. After a while, I felt my speech slow down. I wasn’t sure if people could understand me better, but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself.

Speech is an important skill to have. If you do have good speech, that’s a good thing, but if you don’t have it, it is never too late to improve.

1.The article is probably taken from       .

A．a newspaper                           B．an advertisement

C．a detective story                        D．a science book

2.What did the writer think of having good speech before the classes?

A．It was very useful.                       B．It was nothing important.

C．It was impossible.                       D．It was good for interviewing.

3.What were the writer’s problems when he was speaking?

a. He spoke too quickly.

b. He never stopped once he started talking.

c. He seldom kept eye contact with people.

d. He didn’t give others time to ask questions.

A．a, b              B．b, c              C．a, c              D．b, d

4.From the sentence “but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself,” we know that _____.

A．the writer’s friends couldn’t understand him

B．the writer still couldn’t make eye contact

C．the writer improved a lot

D．the writer didn’t slow down

5.Through the passage, the writer wants to tell us that _____.

A．seeing a speech specialist is necessary

B．speech is an important skill to have

C．good speech can help you make friends

D．good speech gets good affect

阅读下列短文，根据要求完成下列题目。
Miss Wen is my favourite teacher. (A)She began to teach us Chinese three years ago. She is a young girl with long, black hair and a beautiful smile. When she came to our school, I was not a good student in our class. I always failed（没有通过） the tests.
Miss Wen spent a lot of time with our class, but I never had a chance to talk to her. I thought I was just nobody in my class and Miss Wen didn’t like me. But I knew I was wrong later.
One day, Miss Wen asked me to meet her at the school gate. When I got there, she was waiting for me already. Then we went to the park in the school together. (B)Talking alone with my teacher made me excited. She smiled at me and told me that I was quiet but I could write wonderful stories. She told me that I could be a good student. 
Today, Miss Wen doesn’t teach us any more, but I still want to say that she taught me the most important lesson of my life: to believe in myself.
【小题1】将文中A处画线句子用现在完成时改写。
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【小题2】写出文中B处画线句子的同义句。
It made me excited ____________________with my teacher.
【小题3】The underlined word “nobody” may mean _________.

A: Hello, Sally! Congratulations to you for winning the first prize in the speech contest!

B:     1.   

A: You used to be shy when you talked to others. Why did you take part in the speech contest?

B: Yeah, I used to be shy. And my mother was really worried about it. She told me I must have confidence in everything. She encouraged me to do that.

A:    2.   

B: I practiced the speech every day. In order to make it good, I had practiced it hundreds of times.

A:   3.   

B: I got excited and couldn’t help crying when I won the prize,but at first I could hardly believe I was the winner.

A:     4.     

B: Yes, it changed me a lot. And it made me feel confident. I’m very thankful to all the people who helped me.

A: Thanks for answering my questions.

B:   5.   

— Has Wendy handed in her application form?

— Not sure. She told me that she wanted to check again and          it in soon.

A．will hand          B．would hand        C．has handed        D．had handed