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A comfort zone, particularly for students in high school, serves as a non-risk, non-failure and non-rejection zone. It ___1___ that most teenagers are not ___2___ to extend themselves or take risks in their life and they ___3___ want to escape from their parents.
My first ___4___ of being thrown out of my comfort zone was in my high school. Many of my friends in the first year had started to ___5___, regardless of the results, with alcohol, drugs or other ___6___ things. For them, it was___7___ to care more about alcohol, parties or girlfriends/boyfriends rather than their ___8___, study or other friends. That was not the case with me. None of my friends had the determination to ___9___ their risky behavior, including pressure in the new group and the new comfort zone of going along with new friends.___10___, they simply replaced one comfort zone with another riskier one with potentially severe results. Those had little ___11___for me.
I considered myself to be smarter than my old friends and was trying to develop ___12___ and diverse interests. I threw myself into my ___13___ and spent a long time in the library. I took an active part in community service. I gained confidence and the rewards of my study ___14___my old friends wandered in school, with little thought or concern for their ___15___. Could they support themselves in the future? Because of our ___16___ opinion, interests and values, the only ___17___ of our friendship, we chose to end it. I couldn't ___18___ their group just to be accepted.
___19___ I went through a high school student's worst experience-having no peer(同龄人)group.
A quote from the television series Boy Meets World ___20___ my personal experience with peer groups: "Lose one friend, lose all friends, but don't lose yourself."
B.答案： 1-5ABDCC 6-10 DABBA 11-15 DCCDA 16-20 BCDCB
A comfort zone, particularly for students in high school, serves as a non-risk, non-failure and non-rejection zone. It ___1___ that most teenagers are not ___2___ to extend themselves or take risks in their life and they ___3___ want to escape from their parents.
My first ___4___ of being thrown out of my comfort zone was in my high school. Many of my friends in the first year had started to ___5___, regardless of the results, with alcohol, drugs or other ___6___ things. For them, it was___7___ to care more about alcohol, parties or girlfriends/boyfriends rather than their ___8___, study or other friends. That was not the case with me. None of my friends had the determination to ___9___ their risky behavior, including pressure in the new group and the new comfort zone of going along with new friends.___10___, they simply replaced one comfort zone with another riskier one with potentially severe results. Those had little ___11___for me.
I considered myself to be smarter than my old friends and was trying to develop ___12___ and diverse interests. I threw myself into my ___13___ and spent a long time in the library. I took an active part in community service. I gained confidence and the rewards of my study ___14___my old friends wandered in school, with little thought or concern for their ___15___. Could they support themselves in the future? Because of our ___16___ opinion, interests and values, the only ___17___ of our friendship, we chose to end it. I couldn't ___18___ their group just to be accepted.
___19___ I went through a high school student's worst experience-having no peer(同龄人)group.
A quote from the television series Boy Meets World ___20___ my personal experience with peer groups: "Lose one friend, lose all friends, but don't lose yourself."
| 1. A. reflects | B.allows | C.notes | D.determines |
| 2.A.open | B.willing | C.proud | D.devoted |
| 3.A. already | B.yet | C.still | D.even |
| 4.A. game | B.grade | C. experience | D.example |
| 5.A.compare | B.adjust | C.experiment | D.fight |
| 6.A.painful | B.powerful | C.strange | D.unhealthy |
| 7.A.cool | B.wise | C.unique | D.rare |
| 8.A.holidays | B.families | C.projects | D.businesses |
| 9.A.exhibit | B.admit | C.plan | D.stress |
| 10.A.Unfortunately | B.Surprisingly | C.Hopefully | D.Interestingly |
| 11.A.danger | B.regret | C.doubt | D.appeal |
| 12. A.popular | B.strong | C.new | D.closed |
| 13. A.discovery | B.habit | C.study | D.memory |
| 14. A.if | B.because | C.though | D.while |
| 15. A.future | B.journey | C.friendship | D.wealth |
| 16. A.legal | B.different | C.poor | D.public |
| 17. A.system | B.trend | C.basis | D.design |
| 18. A.make up for | B.keep away from | C.look down on | D.go along with |
| 19. A.By no means | B.On the contrary | C.As a result | D.In addition |
| 20. A.enjoys | B.explains | C.sends | D.gathers |
