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记叙文型完形填空 (一) My Teacher in the School of Life I spent the opening day of school this year at DeMatha Catholic High School in much the same way I spent the first day of classes exactly 30 years ago: I sat in Dr Charles E. Offutt’s British literature class, listening to him __1__ what his seniors would learn and get them excited about the journey they would take. I’m the principal(校长) of the school now, but for a few minutes I was back in 1975, __2__ what the future held. I have been learning from Dr Offutt for 30 of the 51 years he has been teaching at DeMatha. He not only taught me to think, he __3__ me, as much by example as words, that it was my moral duty to do so and to serve others. Neither of us could know how our __4__ would develop over the years. When I first came back to DeMatha to teach English, I worked for Dr Offutt, then the department chair. After several years, I was __5__ department chair, and our relationship changed again. I thought that it might be __6__chairing the department, since all of my former English teachers were still there, but Dr Offutt __7__ me throughout. He knew when to give me __8__ about curriculum, texts and personnel, and when to let me design my own course. In 1997, I needed his advice about leaving DeMatha to become principal at another school. If he had asked me to stay at DeMatha, I might have. Instead, he encouraged me to seize the new __9__ . | 
