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完形填空精讲精炼05 13. i am a straight－a student and have been my whole life. when you come from a family of educators, it just seems 1 . with high academic standards and a competitive 2 , i don’t just dislike losing, i can’t 3 it. i need to beat the 4 students, preferably in everything. i’ve even 5 so far as to define myself by my 6 , saying that how outstanding i am. if i don’t get the grade i 7 , then i am lost. today i was sitting in class trying to 8 the last minutes studying for a test i had to get full marks. 9 the girl behind me started talking to me, i tried to listen 10 while still glancing at my study sheet 11 . when i thought the conversation required it, i smiled, nodded and 12 . and then i found myself wishing she would be 13 so i could study. after a while, she said, “you know, you're a really good 14 . you’re so easy to talk to.” i froze. i replayed the praise in my head before smiling and accepting it 15 . but inside, i knew it wasn’t true. she’d made every effort to have a conversation and i wasn’t even trying to 16 . i passed the test excellently despite my 17 of lost study time, but the one thing i needed to learn most wasn’t on that test. i had 18 on being the best student so that i had failed at just being normal. so what matters to me most? what i have is all about my personal 19 and about me being too self-centered. there can only be so many scholars, but there is never 20 sympathy. i want that to be what matters to me-sympathy.
