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……………………………………………… ……………………………………………… 基础组Cloze 1 限时：17分钟 [2016·枣强中学模拟]William taught at Boston University. He once __1__ a great number of unthanked people in his life. These were people who had helped him, inspired him or who cared enough about him to leave a(n) __2__impression. One of them was a teacher he'd not heard of in many years. But William __3__ she had written a short poem for him, and he had thus loved poetry all his life. He found her __4__ and sent her a letter of thanks. The reply he received __5__ with “ My dear Willie”. He was very __6__. Now over fifty, he didn't think there was a person left in the world who would call him “Willie”. Here is that __7__. “My dear Willie， I cannot tell you how much your note __8__ to me. I am in my eighties, living __9__ in a small room, cooking my own meals, lonely, and, like the __10__ leaf of autumn. You will know that I __11__ for fifty years and yours is the first note of appreciation I have ever received. It came on a bluecold morning and it __12__ me as nothing did in many years.” The teacher's letter brought the professor to __13__. She was one of the great unthanked people from his past. We all have people like William's teacher in our life. They __14__ our lives in various ways—some small and some__15__—but each had an effect on who we are today.__16__ William received the reply, he realized he could no longer leave people unthanked. | 
