Mrs. Goff is a math teacher at Lincoln High School. Mrs. Goff and I met my freshman year. Zach Howe and I were on our way to a baseball game when he said he needed to get his stuff from Mrs. Goff’s room. I had no idea who she was then, but he said she was great. Well, he was definitely right.
Last year, I had a college math class that required me to be in the computer lab, which was located directly behind Mrs. Goff’s room. When I struggled in the section, I would go to Mrs. Goff’s and ask for assistance. She told me that I was a little too dependent and not confident enough in my ability.
A little confidence, combined with effort, will do wonders for anyone in anything. If you go into something thinking negative thoughts, negative things will happen. Mrs. Goff taught me that it was OK to make a few mistakes. Mistakes are a part of everyone’s life. She told me that it is how you learn from them that defines your character. A person that learns from his or her mistakes is more likely to be a successful person in life.
This year, I have spent a lot of time with Mrs. Goff. She really helps me instill(逐渐灌输) confidence in myself and others around me. The encouragement that she has given me made me realize that I can do the same thing for people. Therefore, she has helped my leadership skills and increased my confidence in being outgoing.
Mrs. Goff is a great role model in my life, and I appreciate everything she has done for me. I will never forget the things that she has done for me and the things she has helped me learn and accomplish throughout high school. I hope to be as good a teacher as she and give encouragement that she has for me and all of her students.
1.What can we conclude from the passage?
A. A little confidence may help you achieve what might be impossible.
B. Mrs. Goff is the best math teacher.
C. A teacher determines the fate of a student.
D. The author became successful due to Mrs. Goff.
2.What does the author intend to say in the third paragraph?
A. You are sure to succeed with confidence and effort.
B. Take a positive attitude towards your mistakes.
C. Try to avoid making mistakes in your everyday life.
D. A successful person may make fewer mistakes.
3.It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A. the author now is working as an excellent teacher.
B. Mrs. Goff has a great effect on the author.
C. the author has made many mistakes at school.
D. Mrs. Goff should have helped the author more.
4.Mrs. Goff spent much time with the author______.
A. to make him realize he can help people around
B. to help him gain more and more confidence
C. to tell him how to give others encouragement
D. to share her experience with him and others.
Night after night, she came to tuck me in (给…掖被子), even long after my childhood years. Following her long-standing custom, she’d and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started me----her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, they felt work-worn and rough against my young skin. , one night, I shouted at her, “Don’t do that anymore ----your hands are too !” She didn’t say anything in reply. But never again did my mother close out my day with that expression of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my thoughts to that night. By then I missed my mother’s , missed her goodnight kiss on my forehead. Sometimes the incident very close, sometimes far away. But always it existed in the back of my .
Well, many years have passed, but mother’s rough hands are still doing things for me and my family. She’s been our doctor, into a medicine cupboard for the medicine to us children of our pain. She makes the best food in the world and always keeps our clothes clean.
Now, my own children are grown and gone. Mom no longer has Dad, and on special , I find myself drawn next door to spend the night with her. So it was late on Thanksgiving Eve, as I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand ran across my face to brush the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so gently, my forehead.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I the night my young voice , “Don't’ do that anymore----your hands are too rough!” Mom’s hand in my hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night. I thought she’d remember, as I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten ---and ---long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
1.A. set down B. put down C. lie down D. lean down
2.A. inspiring B. annoying C. boring D. upsetting
3.A. for B. although C. so D. while
4.A. Gradually B. Certainly C. Finally D. Absolutely
5.A. rough B. tough C. smelly D. dirty
6.A. unexpected B. strange C. familiar D. ridiculous
7.A. dashed B. returned C. wandered D. ran
8.A. kiss B. expression C. hands D. hair
9.A. happened B. turned C. felt D. seemed
10.A. mind B. world C. record D. history
11.A. sliding B. reaching C. touching D. dipping
12.A. operate B. rid C. charge D. prevent
13.A. situations B. conditions C. positions D. occasions
14.A. quickly B. unwillingly C. hesitantly D. roughly
15.A. pressed B. struck C. dropped D. touched
16.A. recalled B. regained C. repeated D. reminded
17.A. complained B. laughed C. criticized D. whispered
18.A. Conducting B. Commanding C. Controlling D. Catching
19.A. ignored B. abandoned C. forgiven D. forbidden
20.A. guilt B. shame C. pity D. sorrow
The furniture, with its modern style and bright colors, suits modern houses and their gardens, but looks _____ in the garden of a traditional home.
A. out of question B. out of order C. out of sight D. out of place
To our anger, many poverty-stricken counties build luxurious office buildings instead of _______ money to improve the miserable conditions of local schools.
A. declaringB. divorcingC. distributingD. dragging
A charity campaign to offer care to the elderly in our city attracted many participants on March 5 ----“Learn from Lei Feng Day”, a day _________ to honor the spirit of helping others.
A. set off B. set about C. set aside D. set out
Looking at old photographs of yourself on social websites can improve your mood, and this finding _______ previous research, which suggested otherwise.
A. consumesB. contradictsC. conductsD. congratulates
