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<B>Part Three </B><B>Cloze Test</B><B><p></p></B></P><B>Directions</B><B>：</B><B><p></p></B></P>
For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.<p></p></P>
Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs Nanette O’Neil gave an arithmetic ___ 31 ___ to our class. When the papers were ___ 32 ___ she discovered that twelve boys had made the same mistakes throughout the test.
There is really nothing new about ___33___ in the exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs <p></p></P>
O’Neill didn’t even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to ___34___ after class. I was one of the twelve.Mrs O’Neill asked no questions, and she didn’t scold us either. Macaulay, she wrote on the blackboard the ___35___ words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to copy these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.
I don’t ___36___ about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I
can say: it was the most important single ___37___ of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they still seem to me the best yard-stick(准绳), because they give us a ___38___ to measure ourselves rather than others. Few of us are asked to make great decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called ___39___ daily to make a great many personal decisions. Should the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or turned over to the policeman? Should the extra change received at the store be forgotten or returned? Nobody will know except ___40___. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.
31. A. test B. problem C. paper D. lesson
32. A. examined B. completed C. marked D. answered
33. A. lying B. cheating C. guessing D. discussing
34. A. come B. leave C. remain D. apologize
35. A. above B. common C. following D. unusual
36. A. worry B. know C. hear D. talk
37. A. chance B. incident C. lesson D. memory
38. A. way B. sentence C. choice D. reason
39. A. out B. for C. up D. upon
40. A. me B. you C. us D. then<p></p></P>
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