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Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready
for new __1_ in high school.
__2__, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛) for cheerleaders
(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be __3__ for her
to be selected. Two hours later, the __4_ read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart __5__ as
the list ended without her name. Feeling __6__, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was
__7__.She moved on to English and history, and was __8__ to find that she didn't have any trouble with
those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to __9__ math for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs Biden about being on the school10 .Mrs Biden wasn't as
11as Jenna. 'I'm sorry, but we haveenough12for the newspaper already. Come back next year
and we'll talk then.' Jenna smiled13and left. 'Why is high school so14 ?' she sighed.
Later in15class,Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much
16 . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna
decided she'd continue to try to17at her new school. She wasn't sure if she'd succeed, but she knew
she had to18.High school was just as her mom had said: 'You will feel like a small fish in a big pond
19a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the20fish you can be.'
( )1．A. processes
( )2．A. Therefore
( )3．A. difficult
( )4．A. editor
( )5．A. jumped
( )6．A. strange
( )7．A. struggling
( )8．A. ashamed
( )9．A. put up
( )10．A. committee
( )11．A. enthusiastic
( )12．A. speakers
( )13．A. widely
( )14．A. similar
( )15．A. physics
( )16．A. pleasure
( )17．A. fit in
( )18．A. swim
( )19．A. in return for
( )20．A. slimmest B. decisions
B. However
B. easy
B. boss
B. sank
B. happy
B. improving
B. disappointed
B. prepare for
B. newspaper
B. artistic
B. readers
B. weakly
B. ordinary
B. history
B. hope
B. look out
B. try
B. in case of
B. smallest C．challenges
C．Otherwise
C．boring
C．candidate
C．stopped
C．awful
C. working
C．shocked
C．worry about
C．radio
C．sympathetic
C．cheerleaders
C．excitedly
C．different
C．English
C．trouble
C．stay up
C．ask
C．interms of
C．best D. exercises
D. Besides
D. interesting
D. judge
D. raced
D. lonely
D. complaining
D. relieved
D. give up
D. team
D. realistic
D. writers
D. brightly
D. familiar
D. math
D. sorrow
D. get around
D. escape
D. instead of
D. gentlest