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.