There was a very special teacher who made a far-reaching difference in mylife. Fall, 1959, the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High Schoolwas about to begin. “Who”, I asked a senior, “is Mrs. McNamara, my 10 th grade English teacher?” He just 31 and said something about my being in 32 . Soon, I understood what he meant.Mrs. McNamara had a pattern of 33 that she repeated again and again. We wouldhave a literature reading task for 34 . The next day, when we came to class, there would be two or three topicson the blackboard 35 to the homework reading. We were 36 to write an in-class essay about one of thetopics. The following day, she would 37 the corrected and graded essays and eachperson would be called 38 to stand in front of the class and to 39 his/her essay. The class were required to criticize （评论） that essay, 40 the grade of everyone in class would bereduced. The first time that I 41 her read-write-criticize method, I had not 42 to do the homework and had writtensomething without knowing what it meant. 43 the extreme embarrassment I suffered, standingbefore my classmates, 44 myself. No one laughed at me no one would be 45 enough, or foolish enough, to do that in Mrs.McNamara’s class. The embarrassment came from 46 and along with it came a strong 47 not to let it happen again. Mrs. McNamara kept all of our written work in filesit was easy to see the 48 in writing that had occurred.What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place,at least for me. What Mrs. McNamara 49 me to do was to see myself as others see meand, having done that, I could improve myself. And I 50 . Thank you, Mrs. McNamara. 31..A.nodded              B. laughed             C.apologized           D. shouted 32. A. trouble               B. sorrow              C.danger              D. anger 33. A. behaviour           B. evaluation           C.activity              D. thought 21 世纪 34. A. review               B. performance         C.practice             D. homework 35. A. added                B. related              C.contributed          D.compared 21 世纪 36. A. expected             B. persuaded            C.allowed             D. advised 21 37. A. collect               B. return              C.send                D. receive 21 38. A. on purpose          B. at first              C.by chance            D. in turn 21 世纪教 39. A. talk through          B.hand over            C. read out             D. show off 21 世 世 40. A. so                 B. and                 C.but                 D. or 41. A. tried                 B. adopted             C.examined     D. experienced 21 42. A. undertaken            B. attempted           C.bothered             D. hesitated 21 世纪 43. A. Remember             B.Predict              C. Bear                D. Imagine 21 世 44. A. playing jokes on  B.making a fool of  C. setting a trap for        D.taking dvantage of 45. A. brave                B. careless             C.proud              D. selfish 46. A. above             B.within              C. behind              D. below 21 47. A. tendency             B. preference           C.determination        D. sense 21 世纪教 48. A. improvements        B. pains               C.difficulties          D. dvantages 21 世纪 49. A. trusted               B.invited              C. forced              D. permitted 21 世纪 50. A. did                B.could               C. had                 D. would