基本信息
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words—though they mean 21 at the time to the people who say them—can have great power.
I recently heard a story from Malcolm Dalkoff, who has been a professional 22 for the last twenty-four years, mostly in advertising.
As a boy, Dalkoff was terribly shy and 23 . He had few friends and no self-confidence. Then one day, his high-school English teacher, Ruth Brauch, asked the class to write their own chapter that would 24 the last chapter of the novel since they had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it in. Today he cannot recall anything special about the chapter he wrote, or what 25 Mrs. Brauch gave him. 26 , what he does remember is the four words in the paper: “This is good writing.” Four words. They 27 his life.
