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Mr. smith taught eighth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a(an)1about a creature
called the cattywampus, an animal that2during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull (头骨) as he talked.
We all took notes and3had a test.
When he returned my paper, I was4 . There was a big red '×' through5of my answers. I had failed.
There6have been some mistake! I had written down what Mr. Smith said. Then I7that everyone in the
class had failed. What had happened?
'Very .' Mr. Smith said. He had8all those things about cattywampus. There had9been any
such animal. The information in our10was wrong. Did we expect praise for a wrong answer?
We were very11. What kind of test was that? And what kind of teacher?
'You should have figured it out', Mr. Smith said. At the very moment he was passing around that
cattywampus skull, hadn't he been telling us that no trace of the animal12? He had described its color and
other facts he couldn't have known. He had given the animal a strange name, and we still hadn't13. He said
that the14on our papers would be recorded in the grade book. And they were.
Mr. Smith said he hoped we would learn something from this15. Teachers and notebooks are not very
16 . In fact, no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep and to17up if we ever thought he or the
textbook was wrong.
I haven't made any great scientific discoveries,18Mr. Smith's class gave me and my classmates something
just as important: the19to look people in the eye and tell them20wrong.
( )1.A. experiment
( )2.A. died out
( )3.A. after
( )4.A. astonished
( )5.A. all
( )6.A. should
( )7.A. guessed
( )8.A. picked up
( )9.A. seldom
( )10.A. notes
( )11.A. unsatisfied
( )12.A. remained
( )13.A. believed
( )14.A. crosses
( )15.A. information
( )16.A. right
( )17.A. speak
( )18.A. however
( )19.A. way
( )20.A. it’sB. example
B. turned out
B. later
B. angry
B. both
B. can
B. recognized
B. cut up
B. never
B. books
B. sad
B. appeared
B. wondered
B. zeroes
B. note
B. wrong
B. tell
B. meanwhile
B. chance
B. they'reC. lecture
C. broke out
C. meanwhile
C. disappointed
C. each
C. would
C. realized
C. took up
C. ever
C. minds
C. anxious
C. left
C. suspected
C. marks
C. experience
C. certain
C. shout
C. therefore
C. expression
C. he'sD. class
D. wipe out
D. sooner
D. sad
D. every
D. must
D. thought
D. made up
D. once
D. discoveries
D. angry
D. existed
D. ensured
D. mistakes
D. class
D. correct
D. wake
D. but
D. courage
D. we're