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In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my
21 , it was the same score.
Later that evening, I
_22 _ told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agree that we knew our
_23_ much better than an IQ test. We
24 that Michael’s score must have been a
_25 and we should treat him _
_26_ __ as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got
27 grades in the school, especially
28 biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael
_29_ Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him to take more courses than
_30_ . In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I
31 the ceremony at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the _
32 _ IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say
_33 , “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the _
34 _ we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then _
35 _ another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had _
36 _ the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be _
37 _ .
Children often do as _
38 _ as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, _
39 _ of them. That is, tell a child he is “ _
40 _”, and he may play the role of a foolish child.
小题1: | A.joy | B.surprise | C.dislike | D.disappointment | |
小题2: | A.tearfully | B.fearfully | C.cheerfully | D.hopefully | |
小题3: | A.student | B.son | C.friend | D.doctor | |
小题4: | A.argued | B.realized | C.decided | D.understood | |
小题5: | A.joke | B.mistake | C.warning | D.wonder. | |
小题6: | A.specially | B.strictly | C.naturally | D.carefully | |
小题7: | A.poor | B.good | C.average | D.standard | |
小题9: | A.visited | B.chose | C.passed | D.entered | |
小题10: | A.allowed | B.described | C.required | D.offered | |
小题11: | A.missed | B.held | C.delayed | D.attended | |
小题12: | A.high | B.same | C.low | D.different | |
小题13: | A.curiously | B.eagerly | C.calmly | D.jokingly | |
小题14: | A.faith | B.interest | C.pride | D.delight | |