Passage Two

A gray sweater hung limply (無生氣地)on Tommy’s empty desk, a reminder of the miserable boy who had just followed his classmates from out third-grade room. Soon Tommy’s parents, who had recently separated, would arrive for a conference on his failing schoolwork and troublesome behaviors. Neither parent knew that I had arranged for the other to come.

Tommy, an only child, had always been happy, cooperative and an excellent student. How could I convince his parents that his recent failing grades represented a broken-hearted child’s reaction to the separation and coming divorce of the two he so dearly loved?

Tommy’s mother entered and took one of the chairs I had placed near my desk. Soon the father arrived. Good! At least they were concerned enough to be prompt. A look of surprise and impatience passed between them, and then they pointedly ignored each other.

As I gave a detailed account of Tommy’s behavior and schoolwork, I prayed for the right words to bring these two together, to help them see what they were doing to their son. But somehow the words wouldn’t come.

Then I found a crumpled (揉成一團的)tear-stained sheet stuffed in the back of Tommy’s desk. Silently I smoothed it out and gave it to Tommy’s mother. She read it and then without a word handed it to he husband. He frowned. Then his face softened. He studied the scrawled words for a long time.

At last he folded the paper carefully, placed it in his pocket, and reached for his wife’s outstretched hand. She wiped the tears from her eyes and smiled up at him. Tears welled up in my eyes, but neither seemed to notice. He helped her with her coat and they left together.

It was the sheet of yellow copy paper covered with the painful outburst of a small boy’s troubled heart that helped me. On both sides of it was single sentence written over and over again:”Dear Mom…Dear Daddy…I love you…I love you…I love you.”

26 The writer of the passage was Tommy’s ______.

A parent B teacher C classmate D schoolmaster

27 The writer believed that in the past Tommy had been ______.

A a careless and impossible son

B a flexible and cooperative child

C a cheerful and outstanding student

D a disrespectful and aggressive boy

28 In the writer’s opinion, the gray sweater hanging limply on the desk is a sign of Tommy’s _____.

A low spirits

B failing schoolwork

C inactive personality

D troublesome behaviors

29 Before Tommy’s parents arrived, the writer ______.

A knew they would soon reunite

B was sure that they would come

C decided to show them the tear-stained paper

D had found out the cause of Tommy’s misery

30 The writer regarded the changes in Tommy’s school performance as the result of his parents’ ____.

A divorce

B separation

C neglectfulness

D soft-heartedness

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