Once a king fell ill and sent for his doctor．The doctor came, examined(检查)him and said, “You will be well again in a few days if you take bull's milk．” The king was very 1 , for he had never heard of a bull that gave 2 ．“How is it possible? ” he asked．
“Order(命令)Gulbo to 3 it for you．He can do anything．” The doctor was 4 to Gulbo, and thought this would be a way of 5 him suffer．When the king told Gulbo what the doctor had said and ordered him to get bull's milk, Gulbo immediately 6 what the doctor was trying to do．
When he got home, he sat thinking how to get out of the 7 ．His 8 saw him worried, so she asked what was the matter．When she learned what the king had asked for, she said, “Don't worry, Father, I'll help you．”
The next day she took some old 9 , went to the bank of the river near the palace, and chose a place below the king's bedroom window．In the middle of the 10 , when everyone was in bed, she started to do her washing．She made so much noise that the king could not 11 ．The king got very angry and sent someone to 12 out what was the matter．The soldier found the girl, and led(引导)her to the king．“Why do you wash your clothes here at night? ” asked the king．
The girl pretended(装作)to be 13 and said, “I had to wash clothes at night．This afternoon my father had a baby．I was 14 all day because of that．Then I found there were no clean clothes for the baby, 15 I had to come and wash them now．”
After the girl argued with the king, the king smiled and said, “You must be Gulbo's daughter．Go and tell your father that he may keep the bull's milk for his baby．”
On that day, in the hospital, I asked the doctor if he could test Jim again．The doctor 1 so．To my sadness, it was the same score．
Later that evening, I told Frank the 2 news．After talking it over, we agreed that our 3 was much better than an IQ(智商)test．We thought that Jim’s score must have been a 4 and we should treat him as usual．
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Jim studied at Concordia High School in the same year．He got good grades in the school, especially in biology and chemistry．
Jim entered Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student．Soon after that, his teacher 5 him to take more courses．In 1968, he was 6 by the School of Medicine, Yale University．
On graduation(毕业)day in 1972, Frank and I went to the ceremony(仪式)at Yale．After the ceremony, we told Jim about the 7 IQ score he got when he was six．Since that day, he sometimes looked at us and said with a smile,“My dear mom and dad 8 told me that I couldn’t be a doctor．They didn’t tell me until I graduated from medical school!”It is his special way of 9 us for the faith(信任)we had in him．
A few days later, Jim 10 another IQ test．We went to the same hospital．He had received the test there eighteen years before．This time he scored 126, an increase of 36 points．The result seemed to be impossible!
Children often do as well as their parents or teachers 11 of them．That is, tell a child he is“ 12 ,”and he may play the role of a foolish child．