完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
For about three years, I have been writing poetry. It was not until my junior year in high school that I developed an interest, love and skill in writing poetry.
Back in elementary school, I 1 to write stories. I would write stories on Post-it notes and anywhere I could. 2 , when I had to write a limerick (五行打油诗) for a 2 , I could not wrap my head around poetry. I had a very hard time figuring out how to 4 words and have the words make sense. 5 , I tossed the paper with the 6 limerick into the trash. I did not try my 7 at poetry again until several years later.
In my freshman year of high school, my English teacher 8 a poetry project as a task. I still 9 my limerick task in elementary school and was 10 of doing the poetry project. For the project, we had to 11 a poem and write a comment on it. I chose to 12 on Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice. I also wrote my own first poem. I became really 13 when writing the poem.
Two years later, I 14 writing poetry as a hobby and for fun. To 15 how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some magazines and 16 . I won second place in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Sherry Pruitt Award Contest with a poem called The Ocean, and had my two poems 17 as high-merit poems. I have 18 to write poetry, and have even self-published three collections of poetry in both print and e-book formats (版式).
Now, I love writing poetry, 19 I don’t hate writing short stories. I just find it more 20 and not my style of writing, though I still write short stories occasionally.
1. A. hesitated B. prepared C. expected D. loved
2. A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Instead
3. A. change B. pleasure C. task D. habit
4. A. rhyme B. correct C. replace D. fill
5. A. Suddenly B. Eventually C. Gradually D. Surprisingly
6. A. ridiculous B. useless C. meaningless D. unaccomplished
7. A. mind B. job C. hand D. luck
8. A. shared B. completed C. announced D. invented
9. A. remembered B. rejected C. disliked D. missed
10. A. sure B. afraid C. ashamed D. proud
11. A. discover B. revise C. compose D. analyze
12. A. reply B. act C. remark D. concentrate
13. A. confused B. excited C. skilled D. frightened
14. A. avoided B. started C. risked D. stopped
15. A. judge B. guess C. consider D. imagine
16. A. organizations B. schools C. companies D. contests
17. A. recited B. published C. copied D. printed
18. A. managed B. volunteered C. offered D. continued
19. A. for B. so C. but D. or
20. A. unacceptable B. unfamiliar C. difficult D. disturbing
答案
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
For about three years, I have been writing poetry. It was not until my junior year in high school that I developed an interest, love and skill in writing poetry.
Back in elementary school, I 1 to write stories. I would write stories on Post-it notes and anywhere I could. 2 , when I had to write a limerick (五行打油诗) for a 2 , I could not wrap my head around poetry. I had a very hard time figuring out how to 4 words and have the words make sense. 5 , I tossed the paper with the 6 limerick into the trash. I did not try my 7 at poetry again until several years later.
In my freshman year of high school, my English teacher 8 a poetry project as a task. I still 9 my limerick task in elementary school and was 10 of doing the poetry project. For the project, we had to 11 a poem and write a comment on it. I chose to 12 on Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice. I also wrote my own first poem. I became really 13 when writing the poem.
Two years later, I 14 writing poetry as a hobby and for fun. To 15 how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some magazines and 16 . I won second place in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Sherry Pruitt Award Contest with a poem called The Ocean, and had my two poems 17 as high-merit poems. I have 18 to write poetry, and have even self-published three collections of poetry in both print and e-book formats (版式).
Now, I love writing poetry, 19 I don’t hate writing short stories. I just find it more 20 and not my style of writing, though I still write short stories occasionally.
1. A. hesitated B. prepared C. expected D. loved
2. A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Instead
3. A. change B. pleasure C. task D. habit
4. A. rhyme B. correct C. replace D. fill
5. A. Suddenly B. Eventually C. Gradually D. Surprisingly
6. A. ridiculous B. useless C. meaningless D. unaccomplished
7. A. mind B. job C. hand D. luck
8. A. shared B. completed C. announced D. invented
9. A. remembered B. rejected C. disliked D. missed
10. A. sure B. afraid C. ashamed D. proud
11. A. discover B. revise C. compose D. analyze
12. A. reply B. act C. remark D. concentrate
13. A. confused B. excited C. skilled D. frightened
14. A. avoided B. started C. risked D. stopped
15. A. judge B. guess C. consider D. imagine
16. A. organizations B. schools C. companies D. contests
17. A. recited B. published C. copied D. printed
18. A. managed B. volunteered C. offered D. continued
19. A. for B. so C. but D. or
20. A. unacceptable B. unfamiliar C. difficult D. disturbing
答案
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