Question

I am an advocate for my son. I made it my responsibility to inform all of his high school teachers and principals that our family goal was for him to attend college. When you, the parent, inform a teacher that the family had high expectations for your child, then that teacher takes on a whole different attitude to him or her.

       When Chris started high school, I started my habit of keeping track of his absences and tardiness(上学迟到) on my calendar at home. In a way, it pleased him that I cared so much.

       One semester in his junior year, he came home with a report card that showed three times as many days absent from school as I had on y calendar. When I asked him about it, he looked at the report card and his eyes got very wide.

       “That must be a mistake, Mom,”he said. “Maybe there was an error in the computer.”He assured me that he had not been skipping school.

       While I was prepared to believe him, I also needed to check with the school to make sure. The next morning, I went with Chris before school to the vice principal’s office and showed him the report card with the excessive(过度的) number of absences. He spoke up immediately.

       “Oh, Ms. Chandler, I’m so sorry. We are planning to inform all the parents that there was a glitch in the reporting of the days absent for all the kids. I don’t think any of them went out correct.”Chris was here when he says he was here.

       I was relieved that everything was all right, and as I left his office the vice principal said to me, “Hundreds of report cards went out with the wrong number of absences, but you’re the only parent who has called or stopped in to check up on it.”

1．When Chris saw the report card, he felt         .

       A．ashamed              B．surprised             C．frightened            D．angry

2．Why did the author go to her son’s school with the report card?

       A．To prove Chris innocent.                      B．To correct the mistake.

       C．To find out the truth                             D．To expose Chris as a liar.

3．The underlined word “glitch” in Paragraph 6 can be best replaced by “     ”.

       A．problem              B．correction            C．statement            D．change

4．It can be inferred from the passage that the author          .

       A．changed all teachers’ attitudes to her son

       B．had high expectations for her son’s school

       C．was dissatisfied with her son’s school

       D．kept in touch with her son’s school

5．By saying “Chris was here when he says he was here”, what did the vice principal mean?

       A．Chris was seldom absent from school.   B．Chris was telling the truth.

       C．Chris never broke his promise.              D．Chris was well-disciplined.

Answer 1

BCADB