Mark liked talking. I had to ____ him that talking in class was not acceptable. ____ impressed me was that he responded with such sincerity. “Thank you for correcting me, Sister!” I didn’t know what to make of it at ____ , but soon I got used to ____ it many times a day.
One morning my ____ was growing thin when Mark talked once again. I said, “If you say one more word, I’ll tape your mouth ____ !”
It wasn’t ten seconds ____ when one boy shouted, “Mark is talking again.” I had to keep my ____ . I took out some tape from my desk and covered it ____ Mark’s mouth. Later as I walked back to remove the tape, his first words were “Thank you for correcting me, Sister.”
One afternoon, the students got noisy and started to call each other ____ .
I had to do ____ . I asked each student to prepare 34 small pieces of paper, saying they should write the name of a classmate on each piece and, under that, say something ____ about the person. Then I collected the slips of paper and gave them ____ later. Everyone smiled. Their classmates had ____ such nice things about them!
Nobody ever mentioned the paper again. I never knew if they discussed them after class, but it didn’t matter. The students were ____ with themselves.
Several years later, after I had returned ____ a vacation, my parents met me at the airport. On our way back, my father ____ his throat, as he usually did before saying something ____ .
“The Eklunds called yesterday,” he began. “Really?” I said. “I haven’t heard from them in years. I ____ how Mark is.” Dad responded quietly. “Mark was killed in Vietnam,” he said. “The funeral is tomorrow .”
At the funeral Mark’s father came up and took some slips of paper from his wallet to show me. I knew the slips were the ones on which Mark’s classmates had listed all the nice things about him.
“Thank you so much,” Mark’s mother said. “____ you can see, Mark treasured those pieces of paper.”
【小题1】A.order | B.remind | C.mind | D.suggest |
【小题2】【小题3】A.first | B.last | C.once | D.next |
【小题4】A.speaking | B.taking | C.talking | D.hearing |
【小题5】A.patience | B.strength | C.energy | D.power |
【小题6】A.close | B.shut | C.open | D.opened |
【小题7】A.before | B.after | C.later | D.that |
【小题8】A.rule | B.words | C.compromise | D.word |
【小题9】A.through | B.in | C.across | D.cross |
【小题10】A.name | B.names | C.curses | D.swear |
【小题11】A.something | B.everything | C.nothing | D.anything |
【小题12】A.terrible | B.nice | C.kind | D.mean |
【小题13】【小题14】A.asked | B.spoken | C.told | D.said |
【小题15】A.glad | B.sad | C.unhappy | D.happy |
【小题16】【小题17】A.cleared | B.cleaned | C.wet | D.dried |
【小题18】A.necessary | B.important | C.difficult | D.sad |
【小题19】A.doubt | B.believe | C.wonder | D.want |
【小题20】A.Because | B.Though | C.When | D.As |