Question

    Jenna, a popular girl from Westood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new   36   in high school.

      37  , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(選拔賽) for cheerleaders(拉拉隊(duì)隊(duì)員). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be  38   for her to be selected. Two hours later, the  39  read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart  40   as the list ended without her name. Feeling  41  , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

    Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was   42  . She moved on to English and history, and was  43  to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to  44  math for the time being.

    The next day Jenna went to see Mrs Biden about being on the school  45  . Mrs Biden wasn’t as  46   as Jenna. “ I’m sorry, but we have enough  47   for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll take then.” Jenna smiled  48   and left. “Why is high school so     49    ?” she sighed.

    Later in  50  class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much  51   . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to   52   at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to  53   . High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond  54   a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the  55   fish you can be.”

36. A. processes                         B. decisions              C. challenges            D. exercises

37. A. Therefore               B. However             C. Otherwise           D. Besides

38. A. difficult                 B. easy                 C. boring              D. interesting

39. A. editor                 B. boss                 C. candidate           D. judge

40. A. jumped               B. sank                 C. stopped           D. raced

41. A. strange               B. happy                C. awful               D. lonely

42. A. struggling             B. improving              C. working               D. complaining

43. A. ashamed             B. disappointed           C. shocked              D. relieved

44. A. put up                B. prepare for              C. worry about           D. give up

45. A. committee             B. newspaper           C. radio                D. team

46. A. enthusiastic            B. artistic               C. sympathetic         D. realistic

47. A. speakers              B. readers              C. cheerleaders         D. writers

48. A. widely                   B. weakly               C. excitedly             D. brightly

49. A. similar                 B. ordinary              C. different            D. familiar

50. A. physics                B. history                 C. English               D. math

51. A. pleasure              B. hope                C. trouble               D. sorrow

52. A. fit in                  B. look out             C. stay up               D. get around

53. A. swim                  B. try                  C. ask                 D. escape

54. A. in return for            B. in case of            C. in terms of            D. instead of

55. A. slimmest               B. smallest                    C. best                D. gentlest

Answer 1

36. C B A D B    41 C A D C B    46 A D B C D    51 C A B D C