My teenage son Karl refused to communicate with others after his father died. As a
parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card
during his junior year, it said that he had been
95 times from classes and had six
grades for the year. At this rate he
never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even
him. Nothing worked.
One night I felt so
that I got down on my knees and prayed for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything
for my son. I'm at the end of my rope. I'm giving the whole thing up to you.”
I was at work when I got a phone call. A man
himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.”
he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came
out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has
. It’ s out of my hands.” For a moment there was
on the other end of the line. The headmaster
said, “Thank you for your time, ” and hung up.
Karl’s next report card showed a marked
in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I
a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were
at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I
. “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really
me how much I was hurting you. That's
I knew I had to make you proud.”
| 小题1: | | A．confident | B．wise | C．single | D．busy |
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| 小题2: | | A．arrived | B．finished | C．returned | D．proved |
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| 小题3: | | A．naughty | B．troublesome | C．absent | D．present |
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| 小题4: | | A．failing | B．satisfying | C．disappointing | D．surprising |
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| 小题5: | | A．must | B．need | C．would | D．should |
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| 小题6: | | A．convinced | B．forced | C．persuaded | D．begged |
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| 小题7: | | A．powerless | B．useless | C．homeless | D．meaningless |
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| 小题8: | | A．better | B．worse | C．less | D．more |
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| 小题9: | | A．described | B．regarded | C．introduced | D．explained |
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| 小题10: | | A．Before | B．When | C．After | D．While |
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| 小题11: | | A．speaking | B．pouring | C．running | D．putting |
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| 小题12: | | A．continued | B．operated | C．affected | D．worked |
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| 小题13: | | A．silence | B．anger | C．sadness | D．surprise |
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| 小题14: | | A．painfully | B．happily | C．seriously | D．jokingly |
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| 小题15: | | A．progress | B．advance | C．improvement | D．encouragement |
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| 小题16: | | A．attended | B．joined | C．arranged | D．organized |
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| 小题17: | | A．concerned | B．disturbed | C．embarrassed | D．astonished |
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| 小题18: | | A．shook | B．nodded | C．smiled | D．replied |
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| 小题19: | | A．beat | B．hit | C．frightened | D．confused |
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