2014高考英语完形填空预演复习训练(14)及答案
【北京市东城区2014高考英语调研检测题】
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,共30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
 Jay Wilson was my English teacher at Lake Forest High School. It was him    36    realized my potential in writing, and his    37    made me a writer eventually.
He was kind to me, but I had no    38    that he took particular notice of me. There were other   39    kids in the class, and soon I fell back into my usual    40   and thought that I was just a little over average in most things. Near the end of the term, we began to read the play--Macbeth. Believe me, this is not an easy play for high school students to understand,   41    I spent a lot of time reading it. After working till the night before it was due, I wrote a paper about the    42    — the first paper I typed on a typewriter — and turned it    43    the next day.
I got a good    44    on it, and below the grade Mr. Wilson wrote, “Sure    45    you become a writer.” That was it. Those six words were written in his clear and neat handwriting. It was the first time he or anyone had    46    in any way that writing was a    47   option for me. We’d never had any writers in our family line, and we didn’t know any writers personally, even    48   , so writing for a living didn’t seem something    49    to me. But then, just like that, Jay Wilson tapped my hidden    50     and let me see a wider world.
Over the next 10 years, I often    51    about Mr. Wilson’s six words. Whenever I felt discouraged, it was those six words that came back to me and gave me    52   . When a few instructors in college gently a