Unit 2 Healthy eating grammar课时作业

第一节 完形填空（共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分）

　　When I was young at school, I loved to talk, a characteristic not always appreciated by Miss Jordan, my tenth - grade English teacher.

　　She was a teacher no one wanted because she was so 1 . She stood about five - foot - five, was very thin and wore her hair pulled back in a way that gave her a horsy 2 . She wore those half - circular reading glasses. Whenever she got upset, she would lower her head and look at you over the top of her glasses.

　　One day in her class I was busy talking. I didn't 3 she had stopped teaching and was _____4____straight at me. "Young lady, I would like to see you after school."

Later Miss Jordan 5 in a low, but very firm voice that showed she expected me to listen

when she was talking. For 6 she told me to write a thousand - word essay on education and its effect on the economy. She wanted it in by the following Wednesday.

　　Well, I met my deadline. I was 7 . It was a good paper. And I expected a sign of 8 from her. The next day in class, 9 , she was looking at me over her glasses. She called me forward and 10 my paper. "Go back and rewrite," she said. "Remember, each paragraph is supposed to begin with a topic sentence." When she gave my paper back a second time, she 11 the grammar. The third time, the spelling. The fourth time, it was punctuation. The fifth, it wasn't neat enough. I was 12 !

　　The sixth time, I rewrote the whole paper 13 , in ink, leaving generous space. When she saw it, she removed her glasses and smiled. She finally 14 the paper. After that, I put the whole thing out of my 15 .

　　Two or three months passed. One day Miss Jordan came into the class and said to us: Class, do you still 16 an essay contest held citywide? They've announced the 17 . I am happy to inform you that Mary has won third prize in the essay contest 'On the Impact of Education on the Economy'."

I was amazed and 18 . It was the first time I had ever won a prize. Years later, I told a reporter that story, and my comments - including my unfriendly 19 of Miss Jordan's appearance Miss Jordan wrote me, and said that her appearance wasn't what was important. What