For about three years, I have been writing poetry. It was not until my junior year in high school that I developed an interest, love and skill in writing poetry.
Back in elementary school, I _____ to write stories. I would write stories on Post-it notes and anywhere I could. ____ , when I had to write a limerick (五行打油诗) for a _____ , I could not wrap my head around poetry. I had a very hard time figuring out how to _____ words and have the words make sense. ____, I tossed the paper with the _____ limerick into the trash. I did not try my _____ at poetry again until several years later.
In my freshman year of high school, my English teacher _____ a poetry project as a task. I still _____ my limerick task in elementary school and was ______ of doing the poetry project. For the project, we had to______ a poem and write a comment on it. I chose to ______ on Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice. I also wrote my own first poem. I became really ______ when writing the poem.
Two years later, I ______ writing poetry as a hobby and for fun. To ______ how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some magazines and ______ . I won second place in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Sherry Pruitt Award Contest with a poem called The Ocean, and had my two poems ______ as high-merit poems. I have ______ to write poetry, and have even self-published three collections of poetry in both print and e-book formats (版式).
Now, I love writing poetry,______ I don’t hate writing short stories. I just find it more ______ and not my style of writing, though I still write short stories occasionally.
【小题1】 | A.hesitated | B.prepared | C.expected | D.loved |
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【小题2】 | A.However | B.Besides | C.Therefore | D.Instead |
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【小题3】 | A.change | B.pleasure | C.task | D.habit |
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【小题4】 | A.rhyme | B.correct | C.replace | D.fill |
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【小题5】 | A.Suddenly | B.Eventually | C.Gradually | D.Surprisingly |
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【小题6】 | A.ridiculous | B.useless | C.meaningless | D.unaccomplished |
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【小题8】 | A.shared | B.completed | C.announced | D.invented |
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【小题9】 | A.remembered | B.rejected | C.disliked | D.missed |
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【小题10】 | A.sure | B.afraid | C.ashamed | D.proud |
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【小题11】 | A.discover | B.revise | C.compose | D.analyze |
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【小题12】 | A.reply | B.act | C.remark | D.concentrate |
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【小题13】 | A.confused | B.excited | C.skilled | D.frightened |
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【小题14】 | A.avoided | B.started | C.risked | D.stopped |
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【小题15】 | A.judge | B.guess | C.consider | D.imagine |
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【小题16】 | A.organizations | B.schools | C.companies | D.contests |
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【小题17】 | A.recited | B.published | C.copied | D.printed |
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【小题18】 | A.managed | B.volunteered | C.offered | D.continued |
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【小题20】 | A.unacceptable | B.unfamiliar | C.difficult | D.disturbing |
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