There was a very special teacher who made far –reaching difference in my life

Fall, 1959, the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about to begin. “Who”, I asked a senior, “is Mrs. McNamara, my 10th grade English teacher? ” He just __1_and said something about my being in __2__Soon, I understood what he meant Mrs. McNamara had a pattern of ___3___that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for_4__The next day, when we came to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard  5  to the homework reading. We were___6__to write an in –class essay about one of the topics. The following day, she would ___7__the corrected and graded essays and each person would be called __8__to stand in front of the class and to__9___his\her essay The class were required to criticize（评论）that essay,___10__the grade of everyone in class would be reduced

The first time that I_  11__her read–write–criticize method, I had not __12 _to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant ___13___the extreme embarrassment I suffered ,standing before my classmates ___14__myself, No one laughed at me ,no one would be __15___enorgh ,or foolish enough, to do that in Mrs. McNamara’s class. The embarrassment came from __16__and along with it came a strong ___17__not to let it happen again.

Mrs. McNamara kept all of our written work in files. it was easy to see the __18____in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me. What Mrs. McNamar___19__me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that, I could improve myself. And I ___20__. Thank you Mrs. McNamara

1．A．nodded               B．laughed              C．apologized           D．shouted

2．A．trouble            B．sorrow                 C．danger              D．anger

3．A．behaviour             B．evaluation             C．activity            D．thought

4．A．review               B．performance         C．practice             D．homework

5．A．added               B．related               C．contributed       D．advised

6．A．expected             B．persuaded        C．allowed          D．advised

7．A．collect               B．return                C．send                   D．receive

8．A．on purpose           B．at first              C．by chance            D．in turn

9．A．talk through          B．hand over           C．read out                D．show off

10．A．so                       B．and                    C．but                           D．or

11．A．tried                     B．adopted          C．examined           D．experienced

12．A．undertaken         B．attempted         C．bothered           D．hesitated

13．A．Remember        B．Predict           C．Bear              D．Imagine

14．A．playing jokes on                           B．making a fool of

     C．setting a trap for                        D．taking advantage of

15．A．brave                   B．careless               C．proud                D．selfish

16．A．above                  B．within                 C．behind                D．below

17．A．tendency               B．preference            C．determination        D．sense

18．A．improvements       B．pains                     C．difficulties           D．advantages

19．A．trusted                   B．invited                    C．forced                   D．permitted

20．A．did                      B．could                   C．had                     D．would