2019年高考英语总动员---高考真题：2012-2018年全国卷——完形填空（无答案）

2018年全国I卷 During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a “free” course, called Thinking Chess，for three credits. I _____41_____ the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn’t want to _____42_____ a few dollars? More than that, I’d always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t _____43_____ enough about free credits, news about our _____44_____ was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which _____45_____ I would be learning from one of the game’s _____46_____. I could hardly wait to _____47_____ him. Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this _____48_____ was no game for him; he meant business. In his introduction, he made it _____49_____ that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to _____50_____ the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to _____51_____ what we would learn in class to our future professions and, _____52