题目内容：

    As a teenager in the 1960s, growing up in suburbs south of Boston, I fell under the control of the very pleasantly ____ mysteries of the Chinese language. Someday, I told myself, I would ______ the meanings of the mysteries.

So, entering college, I decided to ______ the study of Chinese. But my small college in Maine offered no courses in that language. Following graduation from college. I entered an evening course at a language center for adults, and thus ______ my personal journey in the study of Chinese. That journey ______ George Washington and Georgetown universities, the Department of State’s Foreign Language Institute’s early morning classes. and after a 15-year ______, restarted in tutoring classes starting in 1999 and later in independent study at George Mason University without:______. From 1983 and through the following decades, a dozen business trips to China ______ my study of Chinese, I experienced the amazing change of China.

My connection to China grew even stronger when quite ______ my daughter Carmen started her study of Chinese at Haverford College. After her graduation, the Confucius Institute ______ her a yearlong scholarship to study Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University. She remained in Beijing for three years, working for a company that helps Chinese high school students ______ top U.S. colleges and universities.

In 2012, I retired.______ that I should find some way to show appreciation for the Confucius Institute’s generosity toward my family, I began to ______ weekly presentations about Chinese affairs sponsored by George Mason’s Confucius Institute, where by late 2014 this.______ contact had led to the formation of a Chinese Reading Club. By mid-2016 six experienced Chinese learners could read and discuss difficult, ______ literary shorter works of such ______ Chinese authors as Mo Yan, Liu Zhenyun, and Su Tong.

Under the teachers guidance the ______ and joys of the group meetings to understand the secrets of the short stories I read, in Chinese, have brought me to a deeper understanding of China. I am personally ______ for the opportunity provided. I can only suggest George Mason Confucius Institute consider ______ the model of this reading group to others, as the worlds most spoken and read language is ______ popular among the Westerners who have started the wonderful voyage to it.

1.A. relaxing B. inviting C. developing D. confusing

2.A. uncover B. deepen C. explain D. evaluate

3.A. look into B. break off C. take up D. seek out

4.A. spread B. postponed C. shared D. launched

5.A. wound through B. shook off C. set up D. lived with

6.A. interaction B. break C. improvement D. exchange

7.A. barriers B. inspiration C. guidance D. destinations

8.A. strengthened B. started C. interrupted D. ended

9.A. on the contrary B. on purpose C. to some extent D. by accident

10.A. returned B. lent C. showed D. awarded

11.A. try out B. apply to C. deal with D. adapt to

12.A. Requesting B. Hearing C. Reflecting D. Demanding

13.A. attend B. join C. post D. condemn

14.A. prepared B. portable C. casual D. complicated

15.A. regularly B. highly C. rapidly D. properly

16.A. rejected B. annoyed C. suspected D. respected

17.A. weaknesses B. challenges C. sufferings D. strengths

18.A. desperate B. concerned C. grateful D. anxious

19.A. guaranteeing B. canceling C. selling D. promoting

20.A. increasingly B. discouragingly C. frighteningly D. decreasingly