题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It ___________ his absence from class the day before.

I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my ___________ . The forged(伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The ___________ of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually ___________ : “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.”

The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they ___________ excuse notes, they were brilliant.

So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying, “They’re ___________ to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky ? ” The students looked at me ___________ .

“Now, this will be the first class to study the ___________ of the excuse notes --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so ___________ to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a ___________ worthy of study. ”

Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your ___________. So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God’.” ___________ went down. Pens raced ___________ paper. For the first time ever I saw students so ___________ in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.

The next day everyone had excuse notes. ___________ discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked ___________ , looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.” My heart ___________ .

When I stepped into his office, he came to ___________ my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was ___________ . Those kids were writing on the college ___________. Thank you. ”

1.A. explained B. described    C. introduced    D. announced

2.A. parents  B. students    C. teachers      D. partners

3.A. editors B. readers      C. writers       D. speakers

4.A. true      B. false       C. easy           D. dull

5.A. produced B. considered  C. imagined      D. delivered

6.A. designed B. collected    C. supposed       D. improved

7.A. eagerly  B. nervously    C. excitedly     D. coldly

8.A. form    B. difficulty  C. meaning       D. art

9.A. lucky     B. helpful     C. lovely         D. active

10.A. talent B. habit     C. product        D. subject

11.A. devotion B. imagination  C. concentration  D. information

12.A. hands    B. eyes         C. heads          D. ears

13.A. across  B. with        C. against       D. behind

14.A. curious B. careful      C. casual         D. calm

15.A. Separated B. Surprising  C. Heated         D. Lasting

16.A. day and night B. in and out   C. now and then  D. up and down

17.A. sank     B. rose        C. flew           D. hurt

18.A. watch    B. touch       C. shake         D. catch

19.A. sure     B. dim          C. tough          D. great

20.A. base    B. level        C. paper          D. theme