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 38 .
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

小题2:	A．control B．arrange C．desert D．predict

小题3:	A．cost B．spend C．take D．waste

小题4:	A．others B．the other C．another D．other

小题5:	A．cursing B．convincing C．applying D．testing

小题6:	A．teachers B．students C．men D．professors

小题7:	A．native B．rare C．recorded D．discouraged

小题8:	A．slums B．society C．prison D．school

小题9:	A．continually B．optimistically C．curiously D．officially

小题10:

A．reflection B．harmony C．effect D．existence

小题11:

A．before B．after C．in D．over.

小题12:

A．less B．more C．better D．worse