Question

Donnie was my youngest third－grader. His fear of   41    kept him from classroom games that other children played excitedly. He seldom answered questions he might be   42   . He seldom finished his work because he   43   checked with me to be   44   he hadn’t made a mistake.

I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But   45    changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included,   46    her. But even enthusiastic Mary was

   47   by this little boy who feared he might make a mistake.

Then one morning we were working math problems. Donnie had copied the problems with painstaking neatness and filled in answers for the first row.   48    with his progress, I left the children with Mary. But when I returned, Donnie was    49  . He’d missed the third problem.

Mary looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face   50   . From the desk we shared, she got a canister (小筒) filled with    51  .

“Look, Donnie,” she said, “I’ve got something to show you.” She removed the pencils and placed them on his desk. “See these pencils, Donnie?” she continued. “They   52    Mrs Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are   53  ? That’s because we make    54   too. Lots of them. But we    55   the mistakes and try again. That’s what you must learn to do, too.”

She kissed him and continued, “I’ll leave one of these pencils on your desk so you’ll remember that   56    makes mistakes, even teachers.” Donnie   57    with love in his eyes and a smile on his face.

The pencil became Donnie’s prized possession. That, together with Mary Anne’s   58   

encouragement and praise for even Donnie’s small successes, gradually   59    him that it’s all right to make mistakes    60   you erase them and try again.

 

41. A. risk	B. failure	C. danger	D. communication
42. A. wrong	B. nervous	C. inactive	D. dull
43. A. regularly	B. rarely	C. hardly	D. repeatedly
44. A. sure	B. obvious	C. praised	D. known
45. A. all	B. none	C. nothing	D. everything
46. A. adored	B. disliked	C. protected	D. watched
47. A. encouraged	B. puzzled	C. disappointed	D. annoyed
48. A. Dissatisfied	B. Concerned	C. Pleased	D. Familiar
49. A. in difficulty	B. in doubt	C. in silence	D. in tears
50. A. reddened	B. brightened	C. darkened	D. paled
51. A. pens	B. pencils	C. erasers	D. chalks
52. A. turn to	B. devote to	C. belong to	D. get to
53. A. worn	B. deserted	C. used	D. empty
54. A. notes	B. problems	C. stories	D. mistakes
55. A. change	B. erase	C. correct	D. repair
56. A. somebody	B. nobody	C. everybody	D. anybody
57. A. looked up	B. looked down	C. looked through	D. looked out
58. A. common	B. frequent	C. usual	D. general
59. A. told	B. advised	C. persuaded	D. suggested
60. A. as long as	B. now that	C. in case	D. if only

Answer 1

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