An amazing teacher
Years ago a John Hopkins professor gave a group of graduate students this task: Go to the slums（贫民窟）. Took 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and
31 their background and environment, then
32 their chances for the future.
The students, after consulting social statistics, talking to the boys, and collecting much data， concluded that 90 percent of the boys would
33 some time in prison.
Twenty-five years later
34 group of graduate students was given the job of
35 the prediction. They went back to the same area. Some of the boys---by then
36 ---were still there, a few had died, some had moved away, but they got in touch with 180 of the
37 200.They found that only four of the group had ever been sent to
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Why was it that these men, who had lived in a breeding place of crime, had such a surprisingly good record? The researchers were
39 told,“Well, there was a teacher…”
They pressed（追问）further, and found that in 75 percent of the cases it was the same woman. The researchers went to this teacher, now living in a home for retired teachers. How had she had this brilliant
40 on that group of children? Could she give them any reason why these boys should have remembered her?
“No,” she said,“No，I really couldn’t.”And then， thinking back
41 the years, she said musingly（沉思地）,
42 to herself than to her questioners,“Ｉloved those boys…”
| 小题1: | | A．look into | B．make up | C．show up | D．result in |
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| 小题2: | | A．control | B．arrange | C．desert | D．predict |
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| 小题3: | | A．cost | B．spend | C．take | D．waste |
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| 小题4: | | A．others | B．the other | C．another | D．other |
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| 小题5: | | A．cursing | B．convincing | C．applying | D．testing |
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| 小题6: | | A．teachers | B．students | C．men | D．professors |
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| 小题7: | | A．native | B．rare | C．recorded | D．discouraged |
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| 小题8: | | A．slums | B．society | C．prison | D．school |
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| 小题9: | | A．continually | B．optimistically | C．curiously | D．officially |
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| 小题10: | | A．reflection | B．harmony | C．effect | D．existence |
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| 小题11: | | A．before | B．after | C．in | D．over. |
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| 小题12: | | A．less | B．more | C．better | D．worse |
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