题目内容：

I was the first in my family to go to college, but I was a little ______because most of my classmates had______private schools where creative writing and other electives(选修课) were given. I, on the other hard, had graduated from a small rural high school______there were only six or so teachers totally.

Our first assignment was to write a short story. Our teacher Shelly Paulinus made very ______other specifications (说明), allowing our _______free rein(自由发挥).

I remember feeling quite proud_______I handed in my “masterpiece”. It had a boy-meets-girl plot, and I had   _______it until I was certain that every word was perfect.

Shelly________an entire class to each of our stories, returning them one________so that the author could read her work to the class and get _______from her classmates. The other girls’ stories were wonderful. The more I heard, the more I knew how _____my story was.

It was several weeks_______Shelly returned my assignment. With much _____, I read my offering aloud. My classmates found even more faults than I had imagined they would! It was “dull”, it was “completely ______in imagination”---even now, their words _______in my memory.

Wondering if the criticism would ever end, I heard Shelly say _____, “Can’t you see what Carol has done? She has taken a very ordinary plot and, _______use of her creative words, has made ______sparkle(生动). Shakespeare often did the very same thing.”

I couldn’t believe my ears!________the flaw(缺点), Shelly had not only found something in my work worth_____, but had compared it to Shakespeare’s.

Years have passed, and I never did tell Shelly how much her praise meant to me. I became a teacher like her, who often transforms words of hope to the students.

1.A. worried    B. happy    C. proud    D. sad

2.A. went    B. attended    C. taken    D. heard

3.A. which    B. where    C. that    D. on which

4.A. a few    B. few    C. little    D. a little

5.A. thoughts    B. opinions    C. feelings    D. imaginations

6.A. since    B. as    C. when    D. until

7.A. rewrote    B. adopted    C. polished    D. copied

8.A. devoted    B. subscribed    C. applied    D. supplied

9.A. at a time    B. at times    C. at the time    D. at one time

10.A. replies    B. words    C. gifts    D. reactions

11.A. regular    B. ordinary    C. powerful    D. meaningful

12.A. after    B. until    C. when    D. before

13.A. fear    B. delight    C. attention    D. care

14.A. finding    B. filling    C. lacking    D. looking

15.A. hear    B. tell    C. ring    D. sing

16.A. merrily    B. excitedly    C. proudly    D. gently

17.A. for    B. with    C. by    D. through

18.A. this    B. it    C. what    D. that

19.A. Despite    B. Because of    C. Even if    D. Though

20.A. doing    B. writing    C. praising    D. teaching