阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben,
he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so
.The mother
that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a
a week and do a report about it for her. One day, in Ben’s
, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him
. “Why did Ben put up his hand?” his classmates wondered. He
said anything. What would he possibly want to say?Ben not only
the rock, but also said a lot about the rock. He named many other rocks in the same group and even knew
the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were
. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book
.Later Ben went on to the
of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University (耶鲁大学)and at last became one of the best doctors in the USA. After Ben grew up, he
something about his mother that he did not know as a
. She, herself, had never learned how to
.
| 小题1: | | A．because | B．so | C．but | D．though |
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| 小题2: | | A．clever | B．hard | C．slow | D．quick |
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| 小题3: | | A．asked | B．decided | C．forgot | D．heard |
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| 小题4: | | A．notice | B．message | C．book | D．question |
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| 小题5: | | A．class | B．room | C．office | D．lab |
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| 小题6: | | A．think | B．leave | C．stand up | D．sit down |
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| 小题7: | | A．always | B．even | C．quickly | D．never |
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| 小题8: | | A．found | B．played | C．knew | D．threw |
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| 小题9: | | A．whether | B．when | C．where | D．why |
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| 小题10: | | A．afraid | B．surprised | C．worried | D．unhappy |
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| 小题11: | | A．pictures | B．exercises | C．shops | D．reports |
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| 小题13: | | A．learnt | B．remembered | C．forgot | D．guessed |
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| 小题14: | | A．doctor | B．child | C．children | D．teacher |
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| 小题15: | | A．read | B．work | C．teach | D．show |
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