There was a woman in Detroit, who had a son. She was worried about him
_______ he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so slow.
The mother decided that she herself would have to get her
_______ to do better in school. She told him to go to the Detroit Public Library to
_______ a book a week and do a report about it for her.
One day, in Ben’s class, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone
_______ it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him speak. His classmates
_______ why Ben raised his hand. He never said anything. What could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben knew not only the
_______ but also where the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were
_______. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book reports.
Ben later went to the top of his class. When he
_______ high school, he went to Yale University and at last became one of the
_______ doctors in the United States.
After Ben had grown up, he learned something about his mother that he did not know as a
________. She, herself, had never learned how to read.
5. | A.behaved | B.wondered | C.said |
|
7. | A.afraid | B.surprised | C.worried |
|
8. | A.finished | B.entered | C.visited |
|
9. | A.richest | B.cleverest | C.best |
|