通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项。

 There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben, __21__ he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so ___22___.

The mother decided that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a ___23___ a week and do a report about it for her.

One day, in Ben’s ____24____, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him ___25____. “Why did Ben raise his hand?” they wondered. He __26__ said anything; what could he possibly want to say?

Well, Ben not only ___27___ the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew ____28____ the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were ___29___. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book ____30____.

Ben later went on to the ___31____ of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

After Ben had grown up, he ___32___ something about his mother that he did not know as a ___33___.

She, herself, had never learned how to ____34____.

21. A. because       B. so              C. but             D. though

22. A. clever        B. hard            C. slow            D. quick

23. A. notice        B. message         C. book            D. question

24. A. class         B. room            C. office           D. lab

25. A. think         B. leave            C. stand            D. speak

26. A. always       B. even            C. quickly          D. never

27. A. found       B. played           C. knew            D. threw

28. A. whether      B. when            C. where           D. why

29. A. afraid        B. surprised         C. worried          D. unhappy

30. A. pictures       B. exercises         C. shops           D. reports

31. A. top          B. end             C. back            D. side

32. A. learnt        B. remembered      C. understood       D. guessed

33. A. doctor        B. child            C. student          D. teacher

34. A. read         B. work            C. teach            D. show

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