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【完形填空】Cloze: The Morning Session
Chen Wei opened the classroom at 5:20 a.m., ten minutes (1) than usual.
The air inside was cold and still, and the whiteboard still carried the notes from yesterday's session.
He had been teaching IELTS writing for eleven years, first at a large chain school, then here, in a small room he rented (2) a hardware store.
Most of his students came from smaller cities. They worked hard, but many of them (3) the same problem: they could understand complex texts yet failed to answer inference questions.
One of them was Huang Ting, a quiet girl who had already sat the exam twice.
Her scores were 6.0 and 6.0. She needed 6.5 for a nursing programme in Australia.
Chen Wei asked her to read one article aloud every morning and then summarise it (4) a single sentence.
At first she hesitated constantly, but after three weeks her speech became more (5).
He also made her write down every mistake in a notebook, not just the wrong answers but the reason (6) each choice.
"Your vocabulary is good," he told her. "But your reading is too (7). You wait for the text to tell you everything."
She nodded and began to change her approach, (8) she found uncomfortable at first.
On the day of her third attempt, she arrived early and sat in the corridor, (9) her notes one last time.
The result came two weeks later: 7.0.
She called Chen Wei from a bus stop, her voice shaking. He congratulated her, then put down the phone and looked at the empty chairs.
Another student would leave soon, and he would (10) the same morning sessions with someone new.
Choices
(1) A. earlier B. early C. earliest D. more early
(2) A. on B. above C. over D. across
(3) A. spared B. shared C. avoided D. refused
(4) A. in B. by C. with D. for
(5) A. fluent B. fluent C. fluent D. fluent
(6) A. beside B. beyond C. behind D. below
(7) A. passive B. negative C. sensitive D. creative
(8) A. what B. which C. that D. where
(9) A. to check B. checked C. check D. checking
(10) A. break down B. put off C. take up D. give away