题目内容：

A comfort zone, particularly for students in high school, serves as a non-risk, no-failure and non-rejection zone. It ________ that most teenagers are not ________ to extend themselves or take risks in their life and they ________ want to escape from their parents.

My first ________ of being thrown out of my comfort zone was in my high school. Many of my friends in the first year had started to ________, regardless of the results, with alcohol, drugs or other ________ things. For them, it was ________ to care more about alcohol, parties or girlfriends/boyfriends rather than their ________, study or other friends. That was not the case with me. None of my friends had the determination to ________ their risky behavior, including pressure in the new group and the new comfort zone of going along with new friends. ________, they simply replaced one comfort zone with another riskier one with potentially severe results. Those had little ________ for me.

I considered myself to be smarter than my old friends and was trying to develop ________ and diverse interests. I threw myself into my ________ and spent a long time in the library. I took an active part in community service. I gained confidence and the rewards of my study ________ my old friends wandered in school, with little thought or concern for their ________. Could they support themselves in the future? Because of our ________ opinion, interests and values, the only ________ of our friendship, we chose to end it. I couldn’t ________ their group just to be accepted.

_____ I went through a high school student’s worst experience—having no peer（同龄人）group.

A quote from the television series Boy Meets World ________ my personal experience with peer groups: “Lose one friend, lose all friends, but don’t lose yourself.”

1.A. reflects    B. allows    C. notes    D. determines

2.A. open    B. willing    C. proud    D. devoted

3.A. already    B. yet    C. still    D. even

4.A. game    B. grade    C. experience    D. example

5.A. compare    B. adjust    C. experiment    D. fight

6.A. painful    B. powerful    C. strange    D. unhealthy

7.A. cool    B. wise    C. unique    D. rare

8.A. holidays    B. families    C. projects    D. businesses

9.A. exhibit    B. admit    C. plan    D. stress

10.A. Unfortunately    B. Surprisingly    C. Hopefully    D. Interestingly

11.A. danger    B. regret    C. doubt    D. appeal

12.A. popular    B. strong    C. new    D. close

13.A. discovery    B. habit    C. study    D. memory

14.A. if    B. because    C. though    D. while

15.A. future    B. journey    C. friendship    D. wealth

16.A. legal    B. different    C. poor    D. public

17.A. system    B. trend    C. basis    D. design

18.A. make up for    B. keep away from    C. look down on    D. go along with

19.A. By no means    B. On the contrary    C. As a result    D. In addition to

20.A. enjoys    B. explains    C. sends    D. gathers.