PART III  CLOSE [15 MIN]

  Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.

  Until I took Dr Offutt’s class in DeMatha High school , I was an underachieving student,but I left that class (31)_______never to underachieve again.He not only

  31. ned
  d
  ined
  d

  Taught me to think,he convinced me,(32)________by example as

  32. A. as much
  B. much as
  C. as such
  D. such as

  Words that it was my moral (33)_______to do so and to serve

  33.A. work
  B. job
  C. duty
  tion

  others.

  (34)_____of us could know how our relationship would

  34.A. Both
  B. Neither
  C. Either
  D. Each

  (35)_______over the years .When I came back to DeMatha to

  35. A. evolve
  B. stay
  C. remain
  D. turn

  teach English, I worked for Dr Offutt,the department chair.Mydiscussion with him were like graduate seminars in adolescent(36)______,classroom management and school leadership.

  s
  ure
  pment
  nt

  After several years,I was (37)_______department chair,

  
  
  
  d

  and our relationship(38)________again. I thought that it might

  38.A. moved
  B. altered
  C. went
  D. shifted

  be (39)______chairing the department ,since all of

  d
  
  ral
  

  my (40)______English teachers were

  40.A. older
  enced
  
  D. /

  (41)_______there,but Dr Offutt supported me

  41. A.  /
  
  
  y

  (42)_______.He knew when to give me advice

  42. h
  hout
   the beginning
   the way

  (43)_______curriculum,texts and personnel,and when to

  43.
  
  
  

  let me (44)______my own course.

  44.
  
  be
  

  In 1997,I needed his (45)______about leaving DeMatha

  n
  t
  sion
  

  to become principal at another school.(46)_______he had asked

  46.A.Even if
  B.Although
  C.If
  D.When

  me to stay at DeMatha,I might have .(47)_______,he encouraged

  47.A.Naturally
  B.Instead
  uently
  D.Still

  me to seize the opportunity.Five years ago ,I became the principal of DeMatha.(48)________,

  48.A.Once again
  B.Repeatedly
  C.Unusally
  D.Unexpectedly

  Dr Offutt was there for me,letting me know that I could (49)_______

   in
   down
   out
   on

  him. I have learned from him that great teachers have an inexhaustible(50)________of lessons to teach.