题目内容：

语法填空

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（限填1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

In my living room, there is a plaque that advises me to “bloom 1.  you are planted”. It reminds me of Dorothy. I got to know Dorothy in the early 1980s, when I was teaching Early Childhood Development through a program. The job   2.  (responsible) required occasional visits to the classroom of each teacher in the program. Dorothy stands out in my memory as one   3.    bloomed in her remote area.

Dorothy taught in a remote school near Harlan. To get to her school from the town of Harlan, I followed a road 4.   (wind) around the mountain. In the eight-mile journey, I crossed the same railroad track five times, giving the possibility of   5.  (catch) by the same train five times. Rather than feeling excited by this drive through mountains, I found it depressing. The poverty level was shocking and the small shabby houses gave me the greatest feeling of   6.  (hope).

From the moment of my arrival at the little school, all my gloom disappeared. Upon arriving at Dorothy’s classroom, I was greeted with smiling faces and treated like a queen. The children     7.  (prepare) to show me their   8.  (late) projects. Dorothy told me with a smile that they were serving poke greens salad and cornbread they made themselves for dinner.

Lonely    9.  she was far away from the modern civilization and convenience, she never ran out of reports of exciting activities of her students. Her enthusiasm never cooled down. She passed all the tests   10. (excellent) and I found that Dorothy was really blooming where life had planted her.