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专题06 完形填空(全国卷)
(一)(2023届广西柳州市高三第二次模拟考试英语试题)
My mother spent at least 12 hours every day rolling country cigarettes to support our family. One day she showed me her wage book, ____1____ me how much money she had earned. She has never been to school-she knows nothing about calculating and she uses her thumbprints to ____2____ a record of her earning. At the moment, I wanted to ____3____ her how to hold a pen to write things.
As I watched her finally ____4____ to write her name correctly, and her hands trembling with ____5____, I had a dream that I wanted to receive better education and make a ____6____ to this world. But my ____7____might be too big for a girl in a poor village, because in rural India, girls are generally considered ____8____and to live a life of no voice and no choice.
When I was 13, I read the autobiography of Helen Keller. I ____9____ her spirit and I wanted to have a college degree like her. So I fought with my father and my relatives to be sent to _____10_____, and it worked five years later. I _____11_____ to join in a fellowship(奖学金)program in Delhi University. After many rounds of interviews, I got into the _____12_____ with a full scholarship. I was going to _____13_____ of my village for the first time to study in the capital! By the time my fellowship program ended, my life had _____14_____. Not only had I traced my lost voice, but also had a choice to make myself _____15_____.
At the age of 22, I came back to my village to set up an institution that _____16_____ rural youth by providing them with education, life skills and career opportunities. My work involved working with families and communities to help them understand why getting _____17_____ is useful for everyone.
Of course, to change people’s mind is challenging. The quickest way to _____18_____ them is by doing. When they see their kids getting a real education, getting a real _____19_____ , they begin to change. The best example is what happened at my home -_____20_____ edu