题目内容：

I was in the sixth grade and has just moved to California from Alaska when I met Ms. Linda Jones. Most of my teachers seemed to_______me; I was one more student among hundreds. Ms. Jones, however, took a _______interest. “You can write,” she said, explaining that she wanted to move me into the honors English class. So did I.

A decade later, when my first novel was_______, I went back to Ms. Jones’s classroom, handing her a copy of my book. “And I_______this for you.” Ms. Jones began to cry_______. She’d been considering early_______, she said, _______she felt she wasn’t having enough of an effect_________her students. I didn’t know how to make Ms. Jones understand what she’d done for me: _______her, I fell in love with Shakespeare. I learned how to compose an essay. It was her ________in me that gave me the confidence to become a writer. I__________her.

Fifteen years later, when I heard that she was ________ready to retire, I attended her________party. All Ms. Jones needed to do was say a few words thanking her colleagues for coming. ________, she stood up and made an exciting ________that began like this: “For those of you complaining that________have changed, and that it’s harder to teach these days. You’re getting ________and lazy. These kids haven’t changed. You have! Do not________these kids!”

When she finished her talk, everyone________hands! I went up to Ms. Jones and thanked her for changing my life all those years ago. I__________that night that I was still, and would forever be, her student.

1.A. ignore    B. discover    C. admire    D. hate

2.A. typical    B. practical    C. special    D. complicated

3.A. sold    B. finished    C. tested    D. published

4.A. bought    B. did    C. wrote    D. drew

5.A. madly    B. bitterly    C. shyly    D. happily

6.A. choice    B. retirement    C. behavior    D. change

7.A. though    B. but    C. unless    D. because

8.A. on    B. for    C. about    D. off

9.A. Regardless of    B. According to    C. Thanks to    D. In terms of

10.A. belief    B. idea    C. motto    D. talent

11.A. believed    B. owed    C. helped    D. congratulated

12.A. gradually    B. frequently    C. constantly    D. finally

13.A. going-up    B. bringing-in    C. going-away    D. get-together

14.A. Still    B. Instead    C. Moreover    D. Therefore

15.A. notice    B. appointment    C. decision    D. speech

16.A. teachers    B. kids    C. writers    D. schools

17.A. old    B. proud    C. smart    D. greedy

18.A. let down    B. play jokes on    C. give up to    D. put pressure on

19.A. clapped    B. waved    C. raised    D. shook

20.A. heard    B. hoped    C. proved    D. realized