________recently, I decided I’d had enough. As an experiment, I began________up for myself, even at the risk of alienating (疏远) everyone and having________entire life comedown around me.That didn’t happen.Here’s what I did: I stopped making petty excuses.Saying “no” is so much easier. If someone asks me to have zero interest________,I’m polite but honest. The phrase.” I’m sorry, I think really________me, “slips out my mouth faster than some lame excuse.My friends and family didn’t mind.________I,noone cared. A good friend asked me to go for coffee at 5 PM. I________the gym. I said, “Sorry, I’ve got things I want to dotoninght.” She said,“another time.”Learning how to say “no” has added several extra hours to my days, days________myweeks, and what feels like months to my years. Saying “no” has set me free.Part II Integrated Testing (30 points, 30 minutes)Section A Cloze (每小题1分，共20分)Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A,B,Cand D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter onThe AnswerSheet.(20points)BrazilianZarelaMosqueramoved to the United States as a teenager. The adjustment to a new place was________.Mosquerasays she became a bratty (顽皮的) teenager, as a result. But it was not just the________that affected her behavior.Mosquerasays there was another major stress in her life at that time: She was the only member of her________who spoke English.“Being in a country with my family that doesn’t speak Spanish and my parents don’t really speak________,my parents were trying to give me all these responsibilities.” Along with Spanish and English,Mosqueraalso speaks Portuguese. But there was another universal language she learned to love as a child: art.ZarelaMosqueraconnected with drawing and painting while in school.________she mostly dismissed art as a path to a career. She says her Dad________always say, “Think about the________.”Mosqueradid not think he would support the study of________once she went to college.But, to her________,it was her parents who suggested just that. They urged her to________to technical and liberal arts schools. “One of them was Rhode Island School of Design, which was like my________choice.” RISD, as it iscalled,________Mosqueraas well. She enrolled in industrial design.“It’s basically to design________and services. I could be doing something technical or something more________to problem solving. Whether it’s________out a better to filter water or developing a type of specific shelter________refugees for example.”Mosquerasays the course of study was________including woodworking and model making. She says in one class she just drew cubes for,whichled her to a________: “Wow! Do I really want to do this?” But, she,she________the cube study. And, then she began________on more interesting projects.Mosquerais now a design strategist for Design, an architecture and interior design company in Washington, D. C.