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Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′) In a way, I spent the last sixteen years preparing for college. The second half of my life was a great __1__ focused on developing who I was and figuring out what was __2__ to me. I had spent a lot of time and effort fighting with my __3__ in the first half of my life, not because I didn't want to learn, ___4__ because I couldn't focus. I dropped out of a Catholic school in my first grade and then a public school in my fourth. __5__， I quit my high school and __6__ my early twenties working at gas stations and doing labor jobs. The Internet had __7__ everyone's life and I was no exception. I began to be fully exposed to things that would never have been __8__ ten years ago. At this time, a strong thirst for __9__ began to awaken in me. History, politics, and science－I wanted to know everything! It happened at this point that my mother __10__ going to college at 53. She __11__ me to go as well but I was still __12__ of what college could do for me and afraid of what it couldn't. __13__， I started moving up at my job and __14__ my blue collars for white. It was in my sixth year at the company that my mother __15__ college－she was 57 then. It was a(n) __16__ act of courage that firmed my __17__ that anyone can do anything. Also, I was __18__ of the routine and dull daily life. I wanted to do something __19__ to my life－I wanted to make a difference. Because of my mother, I believe that anyone can do anything, so I __20__ my job and devoted my life to higher education. | 
