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PAGE  PAGE 8 限时阅读二十一 第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分) My earliest memories of writing are attempts made for school homework: essays or compositions, nothing of any creativity. All that 31 one day, when Mrs. Kumar asked us to write An autobiography of a pencil. For some 32 reason, my take on the autgbiography was unusually poetic. Words seemed to 33 without any effort. For me, it was just another 34 and I handed it in, just pleased to have completed it, not particularly 35 of the work, Mrs. Kumar reacted very differently,~ 36 Maybe she was just being 37 in an effort to encourage a student, maybe she really liked the work or perhaps she saw the 38 in a teenager. Whatever her reasons, she read,it out to the class as a(n)_ 39 of a fine sl0ecimen 0~4~k) of writing. If that had been the end of it, life would have 40 very differently for me. One day a few years later, I went back to the campus where I spent my childhood. I was walking through the 41 corridors when I passed by Mrs. Kumar, still teaching her class. She looked up as I passed and I __42, not wanting to interrupt. Suddenly, she went out and invited me into her class. This girl is one of the best 43 this school has seen, she said. She wrote a wonderful autobiography of a pencil a few years ago. I hope some of you can learn to write like her. Even after all these years, I can .__ 44 myself being led into that classroom. 45 _ glows (洋溢) on my face whenever I tell someone this incident. It was fantastic to experience that wave of 46 from a teacher I admired. I am sure I was not the only student whose school essays and assignments Mrs. Kumar remembered. It is likely that she made an effort to make each one of us feel 47 . However, I had never had anybody praise my writing before that. It 48 me to write more, do better in an effort to prove to her that Look! Your 49 in me is justified (公正的). I am good, because you belie