Unit 2 Poems grammar课时作业

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　　(2018·银川一中月考)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.