完形填空。      Sharon wrote this when she was 16 and in the llth grade. Her goal is to become an international diplomat (外
交官) and peace-maker. It was my first day at school. I felt    1   and scared. I went to all my classes with no
  2  .
      It felt like no one   3  . I listened anxiously to all the lessons and waited for lunch    4   at 1:00. Then finally
the bell rang. It was time to talk and have    5   .
     In the lunch line I met a new friend who wore a hijab (穆斯林妇女戴的面纱) on her head, and though I am    6   , we got along fine, and I was so    7   when she said,"Sit with us, at our table." She pointed to the one
next to the door.
     So I     8   , and took my tray and was    9   to walk with her across the floor, when suddenly I felt a jog.
"Hey, I saw you on the bus," said a tall girl in a long skirt."I see your Jewish star necklace. You   10  sit with
us."
     At that moment I looked around, and that"s when I    11   , to my surprise, the nations of the world,  12  
 themselves. That"s what I saw through my own eyes.
     The Spanish only sat with Spanish, the Hindus only with Hindus, the Russians always with the Russians,
and    13   the Arabs with the Jews.
     I saw the reason why    14   got started. Everyone    15   to their own kind. The    16   was just like a map of
the world, where there should never have been so much separation among nations. But why was everyone so
  17  ?
     And so I turned    18   this girl, and went with the first, and there was no offence, I built a   19   between
two worlds when I sat with those    20   from me.

(     )1. A. nervous   (     )2. A. relatives  (     )3. A. cared     (     )4. A. hours     (     )5. A. rest       (     )6. A. Spanish   (     )7. A. curious   (     )8. A. allowed   (     )9. A. about     (     )10. A. might     (     )11. A. saw       (     )12. A. developing (     )13. A. only     (     )14. A. dialogues (     )15. A. stuck     (     )16. A. school   (     )17. A. quiet     (     )18. A. down     (     )19. A. stage     (     )20. A. opposite

B. generous    B. teachers    B. mattered    B. stop        B. fun        B. Arab        B. relieved    B. adopted    B. ready      B. would      B. noticed    B. expanding  B. always      B. friendships  B. insisted    B. classroom  B. blind      B. towards    B. platform    B. different

C. frightened  C. friends     C. understood C. period     C. chat       C. Russian     C. worried     C. agreed     C. willing     C. could       C. knew       C. separating C. sometimes   C. wars       C. turned     C. restaurant C. deaf       C. off         C. bridge     C. strange

D. excited      D. classmates   D. helped       D. break        D. breakfast    D. Jewish       D. serious      D. admitted     D. likely       D. should       D. recognized   D. defending    D. never        D. arguments    D. listened     D. lunchroom    D. tough        D. up           D. path         D. apart