Question

  It was my first day at Grade 6. And the first lesson was 1 English. When I was doing nothing,Mr. Gough,our new English teacher,2 into the classroom.

   To my surprise,he held up a book,The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe,and asked if anyone 3 it. I put my hand up,because Poe was my favorite writer. Mr. Gough asked if I really understood 4 the author tried to say in his book. My reply made him smile,and he asked me 5 an essay on that subject.

   After that,English classes became a new interest for me. Mr. Gough thought that students had to 6 a play to understand it. “Don’t just read it ,” he said.

   As time passed,we developed a real friendship. He encouraged me to be a 7 in the future. When I left school,he said to me, “You have a gift for writing,Tony,and one day you’ll come to realize how 8 it is. Make use of it if you want your life to be complete. ”

   9 have passed. Now every time I sit down to write 10 ,I think of Mr. Gough. He was more than just an English teacher,because he also taught me useful lessons in life.

() 1. A. boring   B. bored   C. interesting   D. interested

() 2. A. walks   B. walked   C. was walking   D. is walking

() 3. A. reads   B. read   C. has read   D. had read

() 4. A. if   B. when   C. what   D. how

() 5. A. wrote   B. writing   C. to write   D. written

() 6. A. work out   B. act out   C. put out   D. come out

() 7. A. teacher   B. actor   C. waiter   D. writer

() 8. A. useful   B. beautiful   C. careful   D. thankful

() 9. A. A year   B. Some year   C. Years   D. Every year

() 10. A. anything new

   B. something new

   C. new anything

   D. new something

Answer 1

1.A 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.C 6.B 7.D 8.A 9.C 10.B