There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben, _________ he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made joked about him because he seemed so _________.
The mother decided that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a _________ a week and do a report about it for her.
One day, in Ben’s _________, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him _________. Why did Ben raise his hand? They wondered. He _________ said anything, what could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben not only _________ the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew where the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were _______. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book _________.
Ben later went to the ____________ 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 grew up, he ____________ something about his mother that he did not know as a __________.She, herself, had never learned how to read.【小题1】

A．because

B．so

C．but

D．though

【小题2】

A．clever

B．hard

C．slow

D．quick

【小题3】

A．notice

B．message

C．book

D．question

【小题4】

A．class

B．room

C．office

D．lab

【小题5】

A．think

B．leave

C．stand

D．speak

【小题6】

A．always

B．even

C．quickly

D．never

【小题7】

A．found

B．played

C．knew

D．threw

【小题8】

A．afraid

B．surprised

C．worried

D．unhappy

【小题9】

A．pictures

B．exercises

C．shops

D．reports

【小题10】

A．top

B．end

C．back

D．side

【小题11】

A．learned

B．remembered

C．understood

D．guessed

【小题12】

A．doctor

B．child

C．student

D．teacher