There was a woman in Nanjing , who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially(尤其) the younger one, Ben,
he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed(看似) so
.
The mother
that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the 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（石头） and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him
. Why did Ben raise his hand? They wondered（想知道）. He
said anything, what could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben not only
the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its 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
.
Ben later went to the
of his class. When he finished high school, he went to University （大学）and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.
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．had | 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．speak | D．answer |
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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．learned | B．remembered | C．understood | D．guessed |
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| 小题14: | | A．doctor | B．child | C．student | D．teacher |
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| 小题15: | | A．read | B．work | C．teach | D．show |
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