82 The Inspector of Schools arrived yesterday morning, and he spent the whole day examining the classes. The headmaster had told us a few days _1 that he was coming. I think the headmaster was very 2 about it, for every day, he came to all the classes, 3 the teachers over and over again what they must do and examined the boys himself to see _4_ they were ready for the inspector. He told us in our class that we were all fools and would be sure to make him lose face before the inspector. All this made us very nervous; and when the 5 walked into our class we were all very afraid. I felt that all I 6 knew had gone clean out of my 7 . The inspector is a tall man. He wears glasses and always looks very strict. He 8 on examining the class in English, and I was asked to read. I felt very nervous, but I got 9 without any bad mistakes. Some of the other boys, 10 , did not do well and the inspector 11 serious, though he did not say 12 . We got along with history and geography; but when it came to math, he set us some very 13 problems to solve which we failed to do; so he looked very angrily at our teacher. Our teacher was very 14 with us later; but I am sure we should have done better if we had not been so afraid. I think I should like to be 15 when I grow up, because everyone should be afraid of me.1. A beforeB. afterC. agoD. later2. A. nervousB. angryC. afraidD. sure3. A. askedB. neededC. promisedD. told4. A. whetherB. howC. whyD. that5. A. teacherB. studentsC. headmasterD. inspector6. A. neverB. oftenC. everD. even7. A. handB fingerC. heartD mind8. A. finishedB. stoppedC. keptD. went9. A. onB. throughC. downD. out10. A. butB. howeverC. thoughD. whatever11. A. lookedB. feltC. seemedD. sounded12. A. littleB. manyC. muchD. few13. A. easyB. hardC. interestingD. simple14. A. pleasedB. surprisedC. angryD. strict15. A. a teacherB. an officerC. an inspector D. a headmaster名师点评督学要来学校检查教学工作，校长、老师和学生们都很害怕。由于同学们上课很紧张，不能正确的解题、答题，老师受到责备。“紧张”贯穿全文，完成短文时要抓住人物的心理活动。答案简析1. A。（督学来到的）几天前，the headmaster就告诉了我们他要来。此空由前面的过去完成时决定。2. A。the headmaster 对此事很担心，C有一定的干扰性，从后文他每天做的事来看，不是害怕。3. D。他一遍又一遍地告诉他们应该干些什么。4. A。whether用来连接宾语从句。 the headmaster想知道孩子们是否作好了准备。5. D。根据上下文推出要来班上视察的人。6. C。ever表示“曾经”。7. D。由于紧张推理出：我感到我所知道的都从我头脑中丢干净了。8. C。keep doing sth. 不停地做某事。9. B。get through指通过阅读检测，其它选项都不能表现这一点。10. B。从did not go so well看，此空表示转折。11. A。督学看起来很严肃，作者在此是说，看到如此多学生回答不好，督学的脸色很难看，因此用looked。12. C。much修饰不可数名词，这里代所说的话。13. B。hard 在此相当于difficult，选择此空时要注意前面的转折词。14. C。 因为督学looked very angrily at our teacher ，因此our teacher 把气都撒在了我们身上。15. C。看到督学来到后老师学生们的紧张表现，“我决定长大后要当督学。”2