My close childhood friend spent the last eight years attending night school to get his bachelor’s degree while working a full-time job. Last month, after【A1】________of late nights and weekends of【A2】________course work and studying, he finally 【A3】________.
He remained in our hometown after【A4】________school, but most of his friends, myself included, left our【A5】________ long ago to other states for university and employment. Over time, newfound responsibilities, families, and other engagements have made it 【A6】________that we’re back in our hometown at the same time.
One of our mutual friends 【A7】________a wonderful idea of kindness: plan a weekend that we’d all be 【A8】________to fly back to our hometown to 【A9】________him and celebrate his accomplishment.
It was so much fun 【A10】________the behind-the-scenes! The bait: His mom told 【A11】________that he was going to have 【A12】________with just his grandparents to celebrate. Little did he 【A13】________that the dinner would turn into a 20 person 【A14】________with friends present from both coasts! I got to order this non-dairy cake 【A15】________everyone attending could enjoy it. I asked his mom for tips 【A16】________a flavor he would like.
【A17】________the guest of honor arrived to “dinner with the 【A18】________”, was thoroughly surprised and told us how much 【A19】________meant to him that we all flew in to make him feel special, the kindness mission (重大任务) was 【A20】________.
【A1】
前文提到 eight years，故选 C。
【A2】
前文提到作者有全职工作，因此选 B。
【A3】
根据前后语境可知，他终于停下了。应填 stopped。
【A4】
根据下文的 university 可知，他高中毕业后一直留在那，没有离开去上大学。
【A5】
前后都有出现 hometown，所以选 D。
【A6】
前后文说种种事情让大家同时回家变得___。根据语义可知是同时回家的次数变得很少。故选 B。
【A7】
hatch 表示密谋，策划。符合上下文语境。其他三个选项不符合句子意思。
【A8】
根据前文可知，大家都很忙，没有时间回到家乡，因此要选一个大家都有空的周末，所以填 free。
【A9】
根据上文的密谋可知作者是要给他的朋友一个惊喜，故选 A。
【A10】
plan 是 hatch 的同义词，句子的意思是计划这场幕后戏十分有趣。
【A11】
根据句子前后意思可知他妈妈告诉他......。
【A12】
根据前后文可知他要去和他的朋友们吃晚饭庆祝。
【A13】
因为前文说是密谋，所以作者的朋友完全不知道接下来会发生什么。
【A14】
affair 表示事情，事件。其他选项不符合语境。
【A15】
so that 因此，in that 因为，in case 以防，as if 好像。
【A16】
in 和 at 后一般接地点，with 表示用，on 在这里表示就某事上询求建议。
【A17】
句意为当他到达那里，所以填 when。
【A18】
前文有出现 grandparents。
【A19】
缺主语，it 可作形式主语。表示这件事情。
【A20】
accomplished 表示完成。前面说是一项重大任务，所以应选 B。