Unit 2 The United Kingdom reading课时作业

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，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。

　　Teachers selected from each district school for the Teacher of the Year competition were recognized. The competition's winner will be___1___in the spring. All those model teachers got me to think about some of my teachers through the years, and how they___2___me.

　　My college adviser, J. C. Casey, had a big___3___on my life. She was a teacher and friend.She___4___me to consider journalism as a career. My high school math teacher, Kathy Cloud, took the time to___5___math to me in a way I could ___6___understand.I'd struggled with math until I got in Cloud's classes. She gave me the___7___to realize I could do it.

　　My first-grade teacher, Darlene Dryden, held me back. Now, most people wouldn't___8___the teacher that kept them back a grade fondly, but Dryden has always been my___9___teacher.I was the youngest person in my class and very shy. She thought I___10___another year to mature before moving on to second___11___.She didn't make me feel___12___for having to repeat the grade. Instead, he made me feel___13___.I think I was her favorite, too.

　　My senior year of high school, right before___14___,I wrote Dryden a note letting her. know that I'd become a good student and was going to___15___and that she'd had a___16___in that.

　　The Norman teachers___17___Wednesday are just a few of the many who are in the classrooms every day making ___18___in their students' lives. They may not even know the___19___impact（影响）they're having. I know it's not an___20___job, but teachers, just remember that you're a Mrs. Dryden to somebody.

1. A. impressed B. emphasised C. announced D. understood

2. A. blamed B. influenced C. considered D. awarded

3. A. education B. lecture C. force D. effect

4. A. encouraged B. warned C. forced D. begged

5. A. pass B. explain C. request D. invite