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【完形填空】Cloze: Keeping the Door Open
For three years, Chen had run a small reading room above a noodle shop in the old part of the city.
Every Tuesday evening, university students came to read English essays and discuss them (1) over cups of cheap tea.
Chen never charged them anything.
Her friends warned her that such generosity would (2), but she refused to listen.
The room itself was modest: two long tables, a bookshelf, and a window that looked (3) a narrow alley.
In winter, the heating often failed, and the students would sit (4) their coats on.
Still, they kept coming.
Chen would move from table to table, listening carefully and (5) a question or two when a discussion went quiet.
She rarely gave direct answers.
Instead, she encouraged students to (6) their own conclusions from the texts.
Some found this difficult at first, but most came to appreciate it.
One evening, a first-year student named Wang stood up and said he wanted to quit.
He explained that his spoken English was too weak and that he felt (7) among the others.
Chen did not try to persuade him.
She simply asked him to read one paragraph aloud.
He did, slowly and with many mistakes.
When he finished, she said, "You have just done something brave. That is (8) it takes."
Wang stayed, and by the end of the year he was leading discussions himself.
The reading room survived on small donations and Chen's savings.
It was not a business, and it never tried to be.
But (9) the years, it became something more than a place to study.
It became a habit, a community, a quiet promise that someone would always be there on Tuesday.
When Chen was asked why she kept it going, she shrugged and said, "Because they still come."
That was answer (10).
Choices
(1) A. aloud B. loud C. loudly D. alouder
(2) A. pay out B. pay back C. pay off D. pay up
(3) A. into B. onto C. out D. through
(4) A. by B. with C. in D. on
(5) A. to ask B. ask C. asked D. asking
(6) A. pull B. make C. draw D. take
(7) A. left out B. left behind C. left off D. left over
(8) A. what B. which C. that D. how
(9) A. in B. over C. during D. for
(10) A. adequate B. plenty C. enough D. sufficient