Question

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Teaching is challenging and teaching college is often a mixed bag. Sometimes my class feels more like a cafeteria, where students come and go, ____in the middle of my lectures. Mostly these students have entered college right out of high school. College seems to them like ____a continuation of high school, ____ the sense of newness that often drives curiosity and achievement.

But there is a category of students that gives everyone reasons for ____.They are the so­ called “nontraditional students” ：those who, for one reason or ____， didn't go to college when they were 18. but many years later. Some years back in my teaching, while calling out names from the name list on the first day，I noticed a gray ­haired woman of about 70.She was wandering in the doorway, ____ her new books like a schoolgirl.

“I'm not on the name list，” she volunteered. “But I was ___if I could sit in for the first class, to see what marine (海洋) biology is about.” This woman's eagerness ____me, so I invited her to have a seat. I began the class with questions to get a (n) ____of how much knowledge they were bringing to the course. As I questioned them about the difference between fishes and seagoing mammals, most of my new students remained ___.But Natalie, the older woman, was on the edge of her seat, ____answers.At the end of the class, she came up to me and apologized for being the “extra” student. She said，“Will you ____ me another chance？” ____ at losing her, I acted quickly to remove her ____.“I'll see you next class，”I said.

Natalie turned out to be a vital and ____student.She commuted 50 miles each day to get to school, often in the severe winter, and never missed a class.___this, she was enthusiastic about helping my younger students. Apparently these older students have the ____over them. It lies in the broadth and depth of their path of life. After having ____ numerous personal and professional barriers, they have an expansive world view. ____ a return to school may, at first, be frightening for them, they tend to make it because they are ____ great trouble to put their studies into an already­ full life.

1.A.never B．seldom C．often D．hardly

2.A.more than B．no more than C．rather than D．other than

3.A.creating B．inspiring C．involving D．lacking

4.A.hope B．desperation C．anger D．pity

5.A.the other B．others C．another D．none

6.A.holding B．buying C．bringing D．fetching

7.A.hoping B．expecting C．thinking D．wondering

8.A.puzzled B．embarrassed C．impressed D．amused

9.A.plan B．idea C．concept D．sense

10.A.enthusiastic B．calm C．interested D．silent

11.A.asking B．volunteering C．rejecting D．repeating

12.A.learn B．make C．offer D．introduce

13.A.Alarmed B．Relaxed C．Relieved D．Annoyed

14.A.concern B．curiosity C．attention D．concentration

15.A.intelligent B．humorous C．diligent D．open-­minded

16.A.Regardless of B．But for C．Except D．Apart from

17.A.advantage B．experience C．ability D．belief

18.A.got away from B．got across C．got over D．got through

19.A.Unless B．Until C．When D．While

20.A.demanding B．taking C．sparing D．Escaping

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