Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note课时作业

Using language

第一节 完型填空

　　阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A comfort zone, particularly for students in high school, serves as a non-risk, no-failure and non-rejection zone. It 1 that most teenagers are not 2 to extend themselves or take risks in their life and they 3 want to escape from their parents.

My first 4 of being thrown out of my comfort zone was in my high school. Many of my friends in the first year had started to 5 , regardless of the results, with alcohol, drugs or other 6 things. For them, it was 7 to care more about alcohol, parties or girlfriends/boyfriends rather than their 8 , study or other friends. That was not the case with me. None of my friends had the determination to 9 their risky behavior, including pressure in the new group and the new comfort zone of going along with new friends. 10 , they simply replaced one comfort zone with another riskier one with potentially severe results. Those had little 11 for me.

I considered myself to be smarter than my old friends and was trying to develop 12 and diverse interests. I threw myself into my 13 and spent a long time in the library. I took an active part in community service. I gained confidence and the rewards of my study 14 my old friends wandered in school, with little thought or concern for their 15 . Could they support themselves in the future? Because of our 16 opinion, interests and values, the only 17 of our friendship, we chose to end it. I couldn't 18 their group just to be accepted.

19 I went through a high school student's worst experience-having no peer(同龄人)group.

A quote from the television series Boy Meets World 20 my personal experience with peer groups: "Lose one friend, lose all friends, but don't lose yourself."

1.A.reflects B.allows C.notes D.determines

2.A.open B.willing C.proud D.devoted

3.A.already B.yet C.still D.even