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  • 1. (2020·松江模拟) Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

        After graduation, Susan was asked to become the executive director of the Floating Hospital. She hesitated at first, as it was a demanding job and she wondered whether she could handle it. But on second thoughts, she agreed to take the job. this job turned out rewarding. she soon got tired of it. (seat) at her desk one day, she wanted to go down to the New School for Social Research all of a sudden. Since she always believed instinct was an advantage she trust, she decided to have a go.

        Without any plan, she titled the course 'Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway', Susan was nervous as she faced the first session of the twelve-week course. The two hours went on smoothly, but she then (challenge) with a new fear, for she didn't know what to present the next week. But surprisingly, every week she found she had more to say. Her confidence level growing, she realized. she had equipped so much over the years about getting over fear and her students were drinking it up. At the end of the course. they were amazed at shifting their thinking really changed their lives.

        Susan eventually decided to write a book based on the course she had taught. She faced many obstacles. And after (reject) by four agents and various publishers. she unwillingly put the proposal in a drawer.

        One day after three years of writing. she went through the drawer she held her much-rejected book proposal. Picking it up. she had a sharp sense that she held something in her hands many people needed to read. She set out with much determination, therefore. (find) a publisher who believed in her book the same way she did. This time, she succeeded. She succeeded beyond her wildest dreams.

        She was so happy that she followed her heart and never gave up overcoming fears which stood her way.

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