Question

   Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new   1   in high school.

     2   , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛) for cheerleaders(拉拉队队员).She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be   3   for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 4   read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart   5   as the list ended without her name. Feeling  6   ，she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

   Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was   7   .She moved on to English and history, and was   8   to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to  9   math for the time being.

The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school   10   .Mrs. Biden wasn’t as  11   as Jenna.“I’m sorry, but we have enough   12   for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.”Jenna smiled  13    and left.“Why is high school so  14   ?”she sighed.

   Later in  15   class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much  16  .By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to   17   at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to 18  .High school was just as her mom had said:“You will feel like a small fish in a big pond  19   a big  fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the   20  fish you can be.”

1. A. processes                    B. decisions                  C. challenges                D. exercises

2. A. Therefore                    B. However                  C. Otherwise                D. Besides

3. A. difficult                       B. easy                         C. boring                      D. interesting

4. A. editor                          B. bosses                      C. candidate                  D. judge

5. A. jumped                        B. sank                         C. stopped                    D. raced

6. A. strange                        B. happy                       C. awful                       D. lonely

7. A. struggling                    B. improving                 C. working                   D. complaining

8. A. ashamed               B. disappointed              C. shocked                   D. relieved

9. A. put up                         B. prepare for               C. worry about             D. give up

10. A. committee                  B. newspaper                C. radio                        D. team

11. A. enthusiastic                B. artistic                      C. sympathetic                     D. realistic

12. A. speakers                    B. readers                     C. cheerleaders             D. writers

13. A. widely                       B. weakly                     C. excitedly                  D. brightly

14. A. similar                       B. ordinary                   C. different                   D. familiar

15. A. physics                      B. history                     C. English                     D. math

16. A. pleasure                     B. hope                        C. trouble                     D. sorrow

17. A. fit in                          B. look out                    C. stay up                     D. get around

18. A. swim                         B. try                           C. ask                          D. escape

19. A. in return for               B. in case of                 C. in terms of               D. instead of

20. A. slimmest                    B. smallest                    C. best                         D. gentlest

Answer 1

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