broken符合语境，上文的“when the car I drove needed repairing,”也是提示，故选B

【题目】When I was in high school, I didn’t know anything about engineering. At that time, when the car I drove needed repairing, I was afraid to take it to the   . Because honestly, the mechanic could have   me an electric can opener and said, “This is part of your car and it’s   -----pay me to fix it.” Then I wouldn’t have known any better.

At the end of my junior year of high school, I heard about a summer program   to interest girls in engineering. The six-week program was free, and students were   college credits and a dorm room at the University of Maryland. I applied to the program, not because I wanted to be an engineer, but because I was looking forward to    and wanted to stay away from my parents for six weeks.

I was accepted to the program and I earned six engineering credits. The next year I entered the university as an engineering student. Five years later I had a degree and three good job offers.

I can’t help shaking   I hear about studies that show women are   when it comes to math. They imply that I am a little stupid. I’m not, but I   know that if I hadn’t met with that summer program, I wouldn’t be an engineer.

When I was growing up, I was told, as many students were, to do what I was best at. But I didn’t know what that was. Most people think that when you are   something, it comes easily to you. But this is what I discovered: just because a subject is   to learn, it does not mean you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work hard to get good at it. Once you do, there’s good   that you will enjoy it more than anything else.

【1】A. engineer        B. salesman       C. factory       D. mechanic

【2】A. shown           B. given          C. brought       D. taken

【3】A. old            B. broken         C. fixed          D. dirtied

【4】A. designed       B. performed       C. controlled    D. described

【5】A. sent           B. afforded        C. offered       D. awarded

【6】A. independence   B. success         C. happiness     D. beauty

【7】A. until          B. when           C. since         D. before

【8】A. at a disadvantageB. at a loss      C. in a trap      D. in a shock

【9】A. never          B. do              C. hardly        D. nearly

【10】A. good at       B. bad at         C. interested in  D. devoted to

【11】A. easy          B. funny           C. difficult      D. interesting

【12】A. will           B. feeling        C. desire         D. chance