Section B(18points)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.
That was at my graduation ceremony held in North-western University Medical School in Chicago in June 1976.
Hearing my name being called, I walked quickly to the stage. But, I was about to 36 for my diploma when the medical-school 37 asked my parents, Anna and Carlo Michelotti, to stand. Surprised, they 38 from their seats in the audience. They looked at each other and seemed puzzled. He told the crowd that my parents, an immigrant Italian couple from a farm outside Chicago, had 39 send their six children to top colleges and graduate schools. (Three of us would 40 doctors, two were already lawyers and one was a physicist.) "It's remarkable," the head of our department said, everyone 41 loudly. Mama's face lighted up with 42 .
My mother was a(n) 43 . When she was three, her parents immigrated in 1926 to Chicago's South Side, where my grandfather worked making ice cream. 44 with her then life, Mama made every effort to push for a better situation. At 16, she graduated first in her high-school class, went on to secretarial school, and 45 worked as an executive secretary for a railroad company.
I knew that I had to 46 everything we had achieved or would achieve to my parents. When we were young children, my mother, especially, was our mentor(启蒙老师). Not until I became an adult did I realize how 47 she was---she always challenged us to succeed-and then showed us the way!
36. A. arrive B. get C. call D. reach
37. A. director B. principal C. manager D. headmaster
38. A. raised B. rose C. lifted D. pulled
39. A. tried to B. sought to C. managed to D. attempted to
40. A. become B. grow C. act D. prove
41. A. screaming B. crying C. shouting D. cheering
42. A. pride B. embarrassment C. shyness D. anger
43. A. German B. Italian C. British D. American
44. A. Unfamiliar B. Unprepared C. Undefined D. Unsatisfied
45. A. eventually B. successfully C. naturally D. extremely
46. A. contribute B. relate C. owe D. devote
47. A. diligent B. special C. acute D. strange
