In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my
16 , it was the same score.
Later that evening, I
17 told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our son much better than an IQ test. We decided that Michael’s score must have been a
18 and we should treat him
19 as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year, he got
20 grades in the school, especially in biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael
21 Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student. Soon afterwards, his teacher permitted him to take more courses than
22 . In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I
23 the ceremony (典礼) at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the
24 IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say
25 , “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
26 we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then asked for another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had
27 the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be
28 .
Children often do as well as what adults, particularly parents and teachers,
29 of them. That is, tell a child he is “
30 ” , 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．joke | B．mistake | C．warning | D．wonder |
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| 小题4: | | A．specially | B．strictly | C．naturally | D．carefully |
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| 小题5: | | A．poor | B．good | C．average | D．standard |
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| 小题6: | | A．visited | B．entered | C．passed | D．chose |
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| 小题7: | | A．allowed | B．described | C．required | D．offered |
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| 小题8: | | A．missed | B．held | C．delayed | D．attended |
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| 小题9: | | A．high | B．same | C．low | D．different |
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| 小题10: | | A．curiously | B．eagerly | C．calmly | D．jokingly |
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| 小题11: | | A．confidence | B．interest | C．pride | D．delight |
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| 小题12: | | A．received | B．accepted | C．organized | D．discussed |
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| 小题13: | | A．imperfect | B．impossible | C．uncertain | D．unsatisfactory |
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| 小题14: | | A．hear | B．learn | C．expect | D．speak |
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| 小题15: | | A．wise | B．rude | C．shy | D．stupid |
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