“Are you too stupid to do anything right?”These words－said by a woman to a little boy who was obviously her son－ were spoken   36   he had walked away from her. The boy returned, his eyes down-cast.

 Not a   37   moment, perhaps,   38   small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words－though they mean   39   at the time to the people who say them－can have great   40   .

I recently heard a story from a man named Malcom Dalkoff. For the last 24 years he has been a professional   41   . Here is what he told me:

  As a boy in Rock Island, Dalkoff was terribly   42   . He had few   43   and no self-confidence. One day, his English teacher, Ruth Brach, gave the class an assignment. The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Now they were to write their own chapter that would   44   the last chapter of the novel.

 Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it   45   . Today he can’t recall anything   46   about the chapter he wrote then, or what   47   Mrs. Brach gave him. What he does remember is the four words Mrs. Brach wrote in the margin of the paper: “This is   48   writing.” Four words. They   49   his life.

“   50   I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or what I was going to be,” he said. “After reading her   51   , I went home and wrote a short story, something I had always been   52   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. Brach to evaluate. She was   53   , tough and honest. “She was just what I    54   ,” Dalkoff said.

His confidence   55   . Dalkoff believes that none of this would have happened if that woman had not written those four words in the margin of his paper.

36. A. where               B. why                       C. because                  D. when

37. A. wonderful      B. difficult              C. funny                 D. big

38. A. yet                 B. although               C. for                    D. therefore

39. A. much                 B. little                 C. more                 D. most

40. A. meaning            B. power                    C. force                 D. sense

41. A. writer                B. player                    C. poet                   D. singer

42. A. sorry              B. proud                     C. sick                 D. shy

43. A. books                B. ideas                 C. friends                    D. chances

44. A. follow               B. match                C. decide                       D. improve

45. A. on                   B. in                        C. out                            D. down

46. A. more              B. again                   C. special                  D. different

47. A. honor                B. remark                    C. prize                      D. grade

48. A. poor               B. serious                    C. good                      D. silly

49. A. changed            B. damaged                C. affected                  D. improved

50. A. Unless                     B. Until               C. When                    D. While

51. A. note                  B. novel                C. chapter                  D. assignment

52. A. tired                 B. fond               C. proud                         D. dreaming

53. A. strict                 B. kind                 C. encouraging          D. praising

54. A. feared                B. needed              C. expected                   D. dreamed

55. A. grew                B. lifted                C. appeared               D. returned

36----40   CDABB  41----45  ADCAB  46----50  CDCAB   51----55   ADCBA

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Hans’s heart began beating more quickly. “No, not that one. I’ve sold that one to a friend of mine. Take another one.”
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