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| "Are you too stupid to do anything right?" These words-said by a woman to a little boy who was obviously her son-were 1 because he had walked away from her. The boy returned, his eyes downcast (沮丧的). Not a 2 moment, perhaps. 3 small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words -though they mean 4 at the time to the people who say them-can have great 5 . I recently heard a story from a man named Malcolm Dalkoff. For the last 24 years he has been a professional 6 . Here is what he told me: As a boy in Rock Island, Dalkoff was terribly 7 . He had few 8 and no self-confidence (自信心). One day, his English teacher, Ruth Brauch, gave the class an assignment(作业). The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Now they were to write their own chapter that would 9 the last chapter of the novel. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it 10 . Today he can not recall(回忆起) anything 26about the chapter he wrote, or what 11 Mrs. Branch gave him. What he does remember is the four words Mrs. Brauch wrote in the margin (空白处) of the paper: "This is 12 writing." Four words. They 13 his life. " 14 I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or 15 I was going to be," he said. "After reading her note, I went home and wrote a short story, something I had always been 16 of doing but never believed I could do."Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories and always brought them to school for Mrs. Brauch to evaluate (评价). She was 17 , tough and honest. "She was just what I 18 ," Dalkoff said. His confidence 19 . Dalkoff believes that none of this would have happened, had that woman not written those four words in the margin of his paper. | |||
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B. thought B. difficult B. Although B. little B. power B. player B. proud B. ideas B. match B. in B. stupid B. remark B. serious B. damaged B. Until B. how B. fond B. kind B. needed B. lifted |
C. spoken C. funny C. For C. more C. force C. poet C. sick C. friends C. decide C. out C. special C. prize C. good C. affected C. When C. where C. proud C. encouraging C. expected C. appeared |
D. expressed D. big D. Therefore D. most D. sense D. singer D. shy D. chances D. improve D. down D. different D. grades D. silly D. improved D. While D. which D. dreaming D. praising D. loved D. returned |