阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项A.B.C.D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
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 |
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| 小题2: | | A．tearfully | B．fearfully | C．cheerfully | D．hopefully |
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| 小题3: | | A．student | B．son | C．friend | D．doctor |
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| 小题4: | | A．argued | B．realized | C．decided | D．understood |
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| 小题5: | | A．joke | B．mistake | C．warning | D．wonder. |
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| 小题6: | | A．specially | B．strictly | C．naturally | D．carefully |
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| 小题7: | | A．poor | B．good | C．average | D．standard |
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| 小题9: | | A．visited | B．chose | C．passed | D．entered |
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| 小题10: | | A．allowed | B．described | C．required | D．offered |
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| 小题11: | | A．missed | B．held | C．delayed | D．attended |
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| 小题12: | | A．high | B．same | C．low | D．different |
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| 小题13: | | A．curiously | B．eagerly | C．calmly | D．jokingly |
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| 小题14: | | A．faith | B．interest | C．pride | D．delight |
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| 小题15: | | A．looked for | B．asked for | C．waited for | D．prepared for |
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| 小题16: | | A．received | B．accepted | C．organized | D．discussed |
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| 小题17: | | A．imperfect | B．impossible | C．uncertain | D．unsatisfactory |
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| 小题18: | | A．honestly | B．much | C．well | D．bravely |
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| 小题19: | | A．hear | B．learn | C．expect | D．speak |
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| 小题20: | | A．wise | B．rude | C．shy | D．stupid |
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The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.