Until I took Dr. Offutt" s class in DeMatha High School, I was an underachieving student, but I left that class【C1】______ never to underachieve again. He not only taught me to think, he convinced me, 【C2】______by example as words that it was my moral 【C3】______ to do so and to serve others. 【C4】______of us could know how our relationship would 【C5】______ over the years. When I came back to DeMatha to teach English, I worked for Dr. Offutt, the department chair. My discussions with him were like graduate seminars in adolesent【C6】______, classroom management and school leadership. After several years, I was【C7】______department chair, and our relationship【C8】______again. I thought that it might be【C9】______chairing the department, since all of my【C10】______English teachers were 【C11】______ there, but Dr. Offutt supported me 【C12】______ . He knew when to give me advice【C13】______curriculum, texts and personnel, and when to let me【C14】______ my own course. In 1997, I need his 【C15】______about leaving DeMatha to become principal at another school.【C16】______he had asked me to stay at DeMatha, I might have.【C17】______ , he encouraged me to seize the opportunity. Five years ago, I became the principal of DeMatha.【C18】______, Dr. Offutt was there for me, letting me know that I could【C19】______him. I"ve learned from him that great teachers have an inexhaustible【C20】______of lessons to teach.
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析:考查动词辨析。转折词but引出的语义是“当我离开他的班级时,我下定决心再也不做差等生了”。be determined never to do符合此意,由于已存在主谓结构“I left that class”,这里只能用过去分词determined作伴随状语,相当于“I am determined never to”,所以答案为C.determined。concerned和worried后都不能接不定式;decided后虽然可接不定式,但是不能作伴随状语(只能用deciding),三项均不符合题意。
单选题
【C2】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:考查语法知识。如果不进行比较,句子是“he convinced me by example and words that…”;如果进行比较,则是“he convinced me,as much by example as words that…”,因此选A.as much。根据as在句中出现的位置可以判断其他三个选项均为错误用法,是干扰项。
【答案解析】解析:考查语篇理解。根据上下文,这里意思是“奥法特教授从始至终一直支持我”,B.throughout“始终,全部”符合此意,为正确答案。through与throughout都可以作副词,容易混淆。through指的是“从一端到另一端,贯穿”的意思,是“线”的概念;throughout指的是“从头到尾经过的全部时间和范围”,是“面”的概念。at the beginning“开始”不符合句意;all the way“从远道,自始至终,一路上”,是“线”的概念,不符合句意。