题目内容：

As everyone grows, they realize there will always be someone who is better. I learned this ____ in the second year in high school. The shock this experience brought was so great that I felt my ____ was left on the side of the road for dead. That was all it took: one year and one person ____ everything.

Her name is Jenny. She was the girl who ____ raised her hand and had useful comments about everything. When teachers needed challenging problems answered, they ____ her. And if students needed ____, they went looking for her. I didn’t ____ her, but I admit her presence annoyed me. In the first year, as a model student, I was the person everyone ____ and all the teachers trusted. Then she came out of ____! We also had two classes ____. There I got to see what everybody thought of her. When an exam finished, it became a ____ that she got the top grade and it didn’t ____ to my classmates whether I was right there, ____ I also got excellent grades. They would cross a desert and ____ her! I was left being denied my presence.  ____, I felt like not trying anymore.

I stopped trying to put on a show because no one was ____ anymore. Later, I volunteered at the graduation ceremony. She was called to make a(n) ____ and discussed their difficulties. I realized all her hard work got her there, not her desire to ____. It finally hit me that Jenny ____ the attention she got. She showed me how big the world is and how ____ a world I used to live in. I’ll do my best because I know it will pay off.

1.A. lesson    B. course    C. plan    D. excuse

2.A. sympathy    B. trust    C. respect    D. pride

3.A. proved    B. remembered    C. changed    D. checked

4.A. only    B. still    C. never    D. always

5.A. called on    B. interrupted    C. supported    D. cared about

6.A. friends    B. answers    C. news    D. money

7.A. hate    B. hurt    C. slop    D. follow

8.A. protected    B. noticed    C. missed    D. served

9.A. somewhere    B. everywhere    C. nowhere    D. anywhere

10.A. first    B. again    C. alone    D. together

11.A. standard    B. challenge    C. fact    D. chance

12.A. return    B. mailer    C. happen    D. occur

13.A. even if    B. as if    C. once    D. since

14.A. ask    B. help    C. remind    D. control

15.A. Frightened    B. Confused    C. Bored    D. Heartbroken

16.A. laughing    B. chatting    C. watching    D. hosting

17.A. decision    B. attempt    C. speech    D. appointment

18.A. break up    B. give up    C. lake off    D. show off

19.A. loved    B. deserved    C. needed    D. escaped

20.A. lonely    B. small    C. peaceful    D. dark