During my second year at the city college，I was told that the education department was offering a "free"course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I ____1____the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn't want to ____2____ a few dollars? More than that, I'd always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t ____3____enough about free credits, news about our ____4____was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which ____5____ I would be learning from one of the game's ____6____. I could hardly wait to ____7____him.
Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this ____8____was no game for him: he meant business. In his introduction, he made it ____9____that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to _____10_____the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to _____11_____what we would learn in class to our future professions and, _____12_____, to our lives. I managed to get an A in that _____13_____and learned life lessons that have served me well beyond the _____14_____.
Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I'm still putting to use what he _____15_____me: “The absolute most important _____16_____that you learn when you play chess is how to make good _____17_____. On every single move you have to _____18_____a situation, process what your opponent(对手）is doing and _____19_____the best move from among all your options.”These words still ring true today in my _____20_____as a journalist.
1. A. put forward B. jumped at C. tried out D. turned down
2. A. waste B. earn C. save D. pay
3. A. excited B. worried C. moved D. tired
4. A. title B. competitor C. textbook D. instructor
5. A. urged B. demanded C. held D. meant
6. A. fastest B. easiest C. best D. rarest
7. A. interview B. meet C. challenge D. beat
8. A. chance B. qualification C. honor D. job
9. A. real B. perfect C. clear D. possible
10. A. attend B. pass C. skip D. observe
11. A. add B. expose C. apply D. compare
12. A. eventually B. naturally C. directly D. normally
13. A. game B. presentation C. course D. experiment
14. A. criterion B. classroom C. department D. situation
15. A. taught B. wrote C. questioned D. promised
16. A. fact B. step C. manner D. skill
17. A. grades B. decisions C. impressions D. comments
18. A. analyze B. describe C. rebuild D. control
19. A. announce B. signal C. block D. evaluate
20. A. role B. desire C. concern D. behavior
【答案】1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. B 11. C 12. A 13. C 14. B 15. A 16. D 17. B 18. A 19. D 20. A
