"What kind of stuff do you write? ''one student asked on my first day at the Universi

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"What kind of stuff do you write? ''one student asked on my first day at the University of Massachusetts. After a decade away from the classroom, I was back to    21   .
"I write creative nonfiction," I said, “as you'll be doing.”
It was a    22   . I couldn't remember when I'd last written a    23    essay. But it must have been before my mother fell ill, leaving me feeling my family story wouldn't end    24   . It seemed that nothing I wrote could change that.    25    I couldn't write my own stories, I could    26    my students to tell theirs. "You're going to keep a    27    in this class, and I want you to tell your stories like they    28    ."
“Why do they matter? ” a boy named Michael asked. Looking out at the roomful of students, I    29   . No one said a word. Many of them, I learned, worked while in school. Most didn't know their stories did matter. They didn't even realize their stories were as    30    as their own lives.
Finally, I looked at Michael. “They matter because they' re what you have. Stories allow us to make meaning of what we've    31    I said. Michael didn't look    32   , but he didn't challenge me, either.
In his first essay, Michael wrote about how his high school English teacher seeing his    33   and helped him fill out a college    34   . I had Michael read his essay out loud. After he finished, the class went so    35    that we could hear the sound of each other's    36   . I looked at him and saw a small    37    in his dark eyes. Then, I said, "That's why you tell your stories."
I went home that night and    38    my journal from where it lay, dusty and    39   . For the first time in months, I had to    40    .
21.A.studying B.teaching C.traveling D.operating
22.A.lie B.joke C.game D.trick
23.A.moving B.creative C.useful D.fascinating
24.A.safely B.proudly C.happily D.perfectly
25.A.Once B.Unless C.Because D.Although
26.A.warn B.order C.permit D.encourage
27.A.book B.letter C.journal D.fiction
28.A.exist B.matter C.happen D.remember
29.A.nodded B.laughed C.hesitated D.responded
30.A.meaningful B.frustrating C.ridiculous D.satisfying
31.A.taken over B.turned over C.gone through D.broken through
32.A.worried B.frightened C.impressive D.convinced
33.A.weakness B.potential C.amusement D.difficulty
34.A.invitation B.suggestion C.application D.composition
35.A.still B.loud C.free D.alive
36.A.breath B.debate C.thought D.remark
37.A.flying B.doubting C.praising D.softening
38.A.got at B.picked up C.looked at D.kept up
39.A.amazed B.shocked C.disabled D.untouched
40.A.write B.sleep C.rest D.stop
 
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