完形填空(三) 正确审美+老师的鼓励+战胜困难
A [2019·海淀期末]
Linda was staring at herself in the mirror. She’d decided she didn’t like the mole(痣) to the left of her nose.“It’s so 1 .” She felt sad. Her mom, folding laundry(叠衣服) in the hallway, overheard her and poked her head into the room. “What’s so ugly?” “This ugly mark on my face,” Linda 2 and pointed at it.
Mom came in, setting the laundry aside. She lowered her head and looked close at the mole. 3 she gave her daughter a kiss on the cheek and said, “I like it, because it gives your face character.” Linda pushed her mother away half-heartedly. “You would think that. Besides, character is a nice way to say ugly.” Linda smiled though and she liked her mother’s 4 to cheer her up.
“I have a couple of my own. You tend to get more as you get older.” Mom sighed and looked into the 5 . “You still have beautiful eyes, though. Mine are boring brown, like most everyone else in the world,” Linda said. She’d always loved her mother’s green eyes.
“You have warm, chocolate brown eyes. They are like hot cocoa, and they are pretty,” Mom smiled. Linda turned back to the mirror, touching her face. “What about my nose?” she said.
“It 6 your face. Why are you running yourself down? You have a unique(独特), beautiful set of features. Stop feeling painful about little details and enjoy your youth and 7 already.”
“I just wish I was prettier. Some of my friends are so beautiful, and I feel ordinary next to them.”
“We can’t all be supermodels, dear. Even so, you are unique—there is no one else in the world that looks like you. You have a nice mixture of Dad and me in you, and I don’t like hearing you knocking your looks. You are amazing,” said Mom.
“Alright, Mom. I won’t complain anymore,” said Linda.
Mom left the room. “I’m done trying to 8 you up! Now it’s your turn to finish the laundry,”Mom called over her shoulder.
( )1. A.lucky B.dirty C.ugly D.funny
( )2. A.agreed B.complained C.wondered D.appreciated
( )3. A.Suddenly B.Differently C.Exactly D.Easily
( )4. A.character B.chance C.standard D.effort
( )5. A.mirror B.door C.window D.television
( )6. A.meets B.gets C.gives D.fits
( )7. A.work B.right C.beauty D.dream
( )8. A.pull B.cheer C.catch D.make
B [2019·怀柔一模]
I grew to be a tall girl but I tried to be as ordinary as possible. At school, I always chose a seat in the back of the room, and never 1 my hand in class. When I was 16, I went to my new school. And I liked the English teacher. In my last year in high school, however, we were told that we were going to have a new English 2 , Oliver Bascom.
Oliver Bascom! My girlfriends and I laughed as we 3 a short and bald(秃头的) man. The situation was not funny, because this man would teach us for the whole year.
After we opened the door, there in front of the blackboard, we saw a young and handsome man!
What followed was pandemonium(群情沸腾), seventeen-year-old girls 4 to get to seats in the front of the room. And I managed to get a front and center desk.
I really wanted to make a good impression on my new teacher, but I usually kept quiet. The day that directions were given for our first major writing assignment, I arrived late to class. A friend later gave me the guidelines and I thought I understood them. I worked the whole weekend on the essay and waited 5 for Mr. Bascom’s evaluation.
After three days, he arrived in class holding the corrected papers. “I’ve chosen the ten best essays for class discussion,” he said.
Twenty minutes later, my 6 sank when he got to the last essay, and I didn’t hear my name.
“These are all great essays,” Mr. Bascom continued. “However, I am now going to read you the most successful of all…” We were all surprised as I was the author of this 7 work.
