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One day in l965, when I worked at View Ridge School in Seattle, a fourth-grade teacher came over to me. he had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed a challenge.(挑战). “ Could he 1 in the library?” She asked. I said, “Send him along.”
When the boy came, I told him that his job was to find books with wrong cards. Then I showed him how to do it. He 2 up the idea immediately. He even asked, “Is it like a detective (侦探)who always tries to find something 3 ?”
He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher came and said, “Time for 4 !” He argued for finishing the finding job. She made an excuse for fresh air and she 5 .
So the next morning, he arrived 6 . “I want to finish these books,” he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to be a 7 , it was easy to say yes. He worked without feeling 8 .
After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, 9 me to dinner at the boy’s home. At the end of a 10 evening, his mother announced that the family would be moving to neighbouring school district. Her son’s first 11 , she said, was leaving the View Ridge library.
When the time came, I really didn’t want to say goodbye. But a few days later he came back and 12 announced: “The librarian over there doesn’t let boys 13 in the library. So we moved back!”
I had expected such strong determination would 14 that young man to the places that he wanted to go. What I could not have guessed, 15 , was that he would become a smart person of the Information Age: Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and American richest man.
( )1.A.borrow B. help C. read D. keep
( )2.A.put B.broke C.picked D.gave
( )3.A.wrong B.boring C. pretty D. exciting
( )4.A.break B.sports C.test D.study
( )5.A.won B.lost C.left D.refused
( )6.A.late B.as usual C.early D.later
( )7.A.librarian B.teacher C.scientist D.programmer
( )8.A.upset B.unhappy C.worried D.tired
( )9.A.suggesting B.inviting C.telling D.taking
( )10.A.long B.pleasant C.surprising D.short
( )11.A.wish B.memory C.sight D.worry
( )12.A.disappointedly B.angrily C.happily D.quietly
( )13.A.stay B.live C.study D.work
( )14.A.take B.bring C.fetch D.carry
( )15.A.therefore B.but C. however D.thus