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Like some of my classmates，I cannot live up to my teachers' expectations；________，I let them down.

A．in other words B．after all

C．what's more D．more or less

 

A

【解析】答案　A　[句意：像我的一些同学那样，我未能达到老师的期望，换句话说，我让他们失望了。in other words“换言之”，符合题意。]

 

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