Too Many Moves
My first semester of college was the worst I’ve been through. Everything started out smoothly enough. I had made plans during the summer to share an apartment with two of my close friends from high school. We had found a nice enough apartment about two miles from campus, but before we even moved in, problems started developing that kept me on the move the entire semester.
One of the two girls I was to share an apartment with was going to work instead of going to college. However, a week before we were to move in , she found out that she didn’t get the job she had been counting on. She was forced to live at home and look for work, and two of us were stuck with higher monthly rent payments. We lasted for a month and then agreed that we couldn’t make it by ourselves. Joan moved away and I started looking around.
I found another apartment and the rent wasn’t bad. The room was small with one tiny bathroom for four people. The place was noisy, but it was the best I could afford for the time. However, one day when I returned from school, I saw smoke coming from the back of the house. The cottage had caught fire, and the fire department was putting out the last flames. My room was a charred mess; there was no way that anyone could live there for a long time. I was once more out of a place to stay, and there was still over a month of school left.
After looking around all weekend for lodging, I finally gave up and moved home. I had to drive forty miles to school every day, so I almost spent as much on gas as I would have on lodging . I’d drive to school, go to classes, and come home and sit in an empty house for a few hours. I was very bored; I’d also lost the will to study. It had been such a bad semester moving all over the place that my heart wasn’t in school anymore. So the semester just played itself out.————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————【正确答案】：
        I FINISHED THE SEMESTER WITH LOW GRADES AND I'D HAD A LOUSY TIME. IT WAS A WASTED TIME SEMESTER. I DID LEARN A FEW THINGS, THOUGH. FIRST, WHEN YOU PLAN ON ROOMING WITH A NONCOLLEGE PERSON, YOU ARE TAKING THE RISK THAT HE OR SHE WILL NOT BE AROUND FOR AN ENTIRE SEMESTER. NEXT, IF YOU WANT TO BE BORED TO DEATH, LIVE AT HOME. I'VE NOW DECIDED THAT THE BEST PLACE FOR ME IS THE DORMITORIES, AND THAT'S WHERE I'M LIVING NEXT SEMESTER. THAT WAY I'LL HAVE THE LIBRARY TO STUDY IN, AND PLENTY OF PEOPLE AROUND FOR SOCIAL LIFE. BESIDES, NOTHING WOULD BE WORSE THAN LIVING IN THREE DIFFERENT PLACES IN ONE SEMESTER.
【题目解析】：根据第一段可知本篇文章是一篇记叙文，讲述了几次搬家的经历。根据第一段可以列出全文的提纲：I Many apartment moves made me first semester a bad experienceII The first apartment rent experienceIII The second apartment rent experienceIV All of the rent experience turned out to be failureV Conslusion由提纲可知，最后一段是对整个学期租房经历的一个总结和感受。因此缺失的一段可以根据文章的前四段进行总结，并说明这些租房经历给自己的学习和生活带来哪些影响。 I finished the semester with low grades and I'd had a lousy time. It was a wasted time semester. I did learn a few things, though. First, when you plan on rooming with a noncollege person, you are taking the risk that he or she will not be around for an entire semester. Next, if you want to be bored to death, live at home. I've now decided that the best place for me is the dormitories, and that's where I'm living next semester. That way I'll have the library to study in, and plenty of people around for social life. Besides, nothing would be worse than living in three different places in one semester. 我这个学期的成绩很不理想，而且整个学期我过得稀里糊涂的。可以说整个学期都浪费了。不过我确实也总结了一些经验。首先，如果打算和一个非在校生一起租房的时候，要承担的风险是：合租人不会整个学期都在。其次，如果你想无聊到死，那就待在家。现在我已经想好了最适合我的住所是宿舍，而且我下学期会住宿舍。那样的话我就可以在图书馆学习，和周边同学一起玩。此外，没有什么比一个学期搬三次家更糟糕的了。