4. 南通四县市2007届高三联合考试
A student went to college to go on with his studies. There he put
his name down for a course in
36 , but after the first
lecture he didn't go to it 37 . The geography teacher noticed that
this student was always 38 and thought that he had changed to 39
course, so he was very
surprised when he saw the boy's name on the list of the students who wanted to
take the geography 40 at the end of the year.
The
lecturer had prepared a difficult examination 41
followed his lectures
very closely, and he was 42 to see how this student answered the
questions. He thought that the answers would be 43 . But when he received them soon after
the exam and examined them 44
, he was able to find only one small 45 in them. As this 46 him very much, he went 47 the paper again, but was 48 not able to find more than one small
mistake, so he 49 the student to question him about that.
When the student came into the room and sat down, the lecturer said to
him, "1 50 you came only to my first lecture
and that you have been absent from all of the other. But now I have 51 your answer paper very carefully and
I 52 to find only one mistake in it. I am 53 to know your explanation for that."
" Oh, I am very 54 about this mistake, sir," answered
the student. "After the exam, I realized 55
I should have written. I
would not have made that mistake ifI had not been
confused by your first lecture."