广东省汕头市金山中学2014届高三上学期开学摸底考试（英语）
第I卷 （共80分）
一. 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was her giggling that drew my attention. Note taking really wasn’t all that funny.
Walking over the offender, I asked for the __1__. Frozen, she refused to give it to me. I waited, all attention in the classroom on the quiet __2 __between teacher and student. When she finally handed it over she whispered, “Okay, but I didn’t draw it.”
It was a hand-drawn picture of me, teeth blackened and the words “I’m stupid” coming out of my mouth. I managed to __3__ it up calmly. My mind, however, was working angrily as I struggled not to cry. I figured I knew the two most_ 4 _candidates for drawing the picture. It would do them some __5 _ to teach them a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
___6___, I was able to keep myself controlled.
When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture. They were all silent as I told them how ___7 _ this was for me. I told them there must be a reason behind and now was their chance to write down anything they need to tell me. Then I let them write silently while I sniffed in the back of the classroom.
As I read the notes later, many of them said something like, “I’ve got nothing against you, ” or “We’re __8_ of you.” But two notes, from the girls who I __9 __ were behind the picture, had a list of issues. I was too mean, too strict…
Reading those notes, I realize that over the course of this year, instead of _10_ my students, I had begun commanding them to _ 11_ .Where I thought I was driving them to success I was __12__driving them away. K#s5u
I had some apologizing to do. But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me a card. The one ___13__ by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke. The one from the girls ask for __14____.
