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2017届高考英语一轮复习考点规范练：5（新人教版）

　　(2015·山西四校第二次联考)

　　She was only about five feet tall and probably never weighed more than 110 pounds.However,Miss Bessie was a(n)　1　 presence in the classroom.From 1938 to 1942,when I attended Saint Bernard’s High School,she taught me a lot 　2　 I realized.

　　There was never a(n) 　3　problem in Miss Bessie’s classes.We didn’t dare to trouble a woman who knew about the Battle of Hastings and could also play the piano and 　4　Shakespeare and Milton.

　　Miss Bessie knew that my family couldn’t afford to buy a newspaper.She knew we didn’t 　5　 own a radio.Still,she 　6　 me to look out for my 　7　 and find some ways to 　8　 what’s going on in the world.　9　 I became a delivery boy who delivered newspapers.I 　10　 made a dollar a week,but I got to read a newspaper every day.

　　Miss Bessie noticed things that had nothing to do with schoolwork but were vital to a youngster’s　11　.Once a few classmates made fun of my 　12　 overcoat.As I was leaving school,Miss Bessie 　13　 me on the back of that old overcoat and said,“Carl,never worry about what you don’t have.Just make the most of what you do have—a(n)　14　.”

　　Among the things that I didn’t have was　15　 in the little wooden house.But because of her 　16　,I spent many hours beside a kerosene lamp(煤油灯)reading Shakespeare’s works.Miss Bessie introduced me 　17　 a wonderful world of poems and stories.She led me to 　18　 that I could write poems as well as Shakespeare.