1. (2022高一下·福清月考) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A,B,C,D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I used to be a very self­centered (自我中心的) person，but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people1I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a 2 person.

I think my 3 started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my degree and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else，so I hardly ever 4 to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really lonely. It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n) 5. I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I 6 to help. That was really a big 7for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of them are still my best friends today.

A bigger cause of my new 8, however, came when I took a part­time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer's disease became my friend. Every time I came into her room, she was so9because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never 10 her, so I took her place. She let me11that making others feel good made me feel good, too, when she died, I was 12, but I was very grateful to her.

I think I am a much 13 person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not forget these experiences. They have14 me to care about other people more than about myself. I15who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.