Unit 2 Poems Learning about language课时作业

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　　(2018·广西桂林中学月考)In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my ____1____， it was the same score.

　　Later that evening, I ____2____ told Frank What I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our ____3____ much better than an IQ (智商) test. We ____4____ that Michael's score must have been a ____5____ and we should treat him ____6____ as usual.

　　We moved to Indiana in 1962 ，and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got ____7____ grades in the school, especially ____8____ biology and chemistry，which was a great comfort.

　　Michael ____9____ Indiana University in 1965 as a premedical student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him to take more courses than ____10____. In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine，Yale University.

　　On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I ____11____ the ceremony (典礼) at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the ____12____ IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say ____13____，"My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn't be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school！" It is his special way of thanking us for the ____14____ we had in him.

Interestingly，Michael then ____15____ another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had ____16____ the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be ____17____.