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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

“Don’t you want to consider studying business?” It was 2003 and I was in Class 10. Why did Papa ask me that? He knew I wanted to be a ________.

“If you’re thinking of studying mass media after class 12,” Papa added, “________ should be more helpful than science.”

“But I ________ to be a cardiologist(心脏病学家), Papa!” I protested.

“________ that’s where your heart really lies, I’m sorry I ________ this up,” he said.

In 2006, after I had spent two difficult years trying to study science, I brought up the ________ again with my father, a teacher who ________ his own training institute in Ujjain, MP. “What made you ________ I’d make a better journalist than a doctor?” I asked Papa.

“You have been my ________, too,” he said, smiling.

I was just eight years old when I ________ evening classes at his institute. It was very different from regular school. We shared anecdotes, made presentations, staged plays, listened to and watched tapes from the BBC.

Always thinking about his students, Papa ________ takes leave but when he absolutely has to, he feels guilty. It ________ him when a student doesn’t show the same enthusiasm.

Every year, Teacher’s Day, the 5th of September, is like a ________ in our house. The phone ________ ringing. Papa takes every call ________ it were the only one he got.

It turned out to be journalism and not cardiology for me. In June 2006, when I joined St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, for my ________ degree in mass media, it felt like Papa’s classes. Soon I was writing regularly for the news magazine Outlook. In 2009, it was Papa again who ________ me decide not take a postgraduate degree in mass media.

“You’ll only study the ________ things again,” Papa explained. “Sociology is such a lively subject, and if you want to be a good journalist you ________ know about society and people.”

I got my MA in sociology two years later.

This Father’s Day, June 21, when I called him, I will have completed nearly four fruitful years working as a journalist, thanks to Papa’s ________.

1.A. journalistB. doctorC. businessmanD. sociologist

2.A. businessB. literatureC. sociologyD.communication

3.A. hesitateB. refuseC. wantD. agree

4.A. IfB. SoC. WhenD. But

5.A. pickedB. putC. broughtD. gave

6.A. conceptB. projectC. questionD. subject

7.A. supportsB. runsC. holdsD. shares

8.A. feelB. doubtC. hopeD. prefer

9.A. sonB. studentC. fellowD. friend

10.A. choseB. taughtC. attendedD. received

11.A. sometimesB. alwaysC. neverD. hardly

12.A. hurtsB. defeatsC. strikesD. amuses

13.A. showB. lectureC. meetingD. festival

14.A. keepsB. beginsC. continuesD. stops

15.A. in caseB. as ifC. even ifD. now that

16.A. bachelor’sB. master’sC. doctor’sD. graduate’s

17.A. sawB. letC. foundD. helped

18.A. differentB. sameC. generalD. boring

19.A. mayB. couldC. wouldD. must

20.A. patienceB. powerC. guidanceD. understanding

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