Lesson Fifteen
The Letter “A” (1)
昏头昏脑Answer the questions on the text. P418-419
1. Q: What do you learn about Chris’ birth?
A: It was a difficult one and both mother and son died.
2. Q: How old was Chris when his mother noticed there was something wrong with his son?
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异途同归 A: He was about four months. His mother noticed that he could he could not support his head as a normal 4-month baby should.
3. Q: What other things did Chris’ mother find about the boy that worried her?
A: As he grew older she found his hands were clenched nearly all of the time. His jaws would either lock together tightly or suddenly become limp and loo. He couldn’t sit up without support when he was twelve months.
4. Q: What did his parents decided to do?
理财规划师A: They decided to take him to doctors and get advice without delay.
5. Q: What did most of the doctors say about the boy? What did the doctors tell his mother to do?幽默搞笑句子
A: They told his mother to forget that he was a human creature and to regard him as just something to be fed and to be washed and then put them away again. I other words, they advid her to treat the boy as an idiot.
In the Letter A, the doctors advid his mother to forget that he was a human creature and to regard him as just something to be fed and washed and then put away again.
6. Q: His mother refud to accept what the doctors said, didn’t she? What did she firmly believe?
A: Yes, she did.She firmly believed that though his body was crippled, there was nothing wrong with his mind / his mind was normal.
His mother refud to accept what the doctors said becau she firmly believed that though his body was crippled, there was nothing wrong with his mind.
7. Q: What did his mother decide to do despite the doctors’ advice? Why was it a big decision for the boy?
A: She decided to treat his boy the same as her other children, no matter how dull and incapable he might grow up to be.
It was a big decision for the boy becau it determined his future.
Despite the doctors’ advice, his mother decided to treat the boy the same as her other children no matter how dull and incapable he might grow up to be.
8. Q: What did the relatives and friends advid her to do? Why did they advi her thus?
智能笔 A: They advid her to treat the boy kindly, sympathetically, but not riously.
They did so for the sake of her mother. They thought if the boy did prove to be mentally defective, it would break his heart.
9. Q: What was the boy like when he was five years old?
A: He was as helpless as a new born baby. He couldn’t talk, and could not even sit up without support. What’s more, he couldn’t speak, and didn’t em to understand others when they talked.
10. Q: What had his mother been trying to do all tho years?
A: She had been trying to teach him to communicate.
11. Q: 高铁上可以带白酒吗What did Chris do that most break her heart? But didn’t lo heart, did she?
A: One day she was patiently trying to teach Chris a few words, but he made no sign that he understood her. Instead, he suddenly grasped some of her hair and pulled them o
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No, she didn’t.
12. Q: What the relatives suggest? What the mother say to the suggestion? What made them hold out against them?
A: They suggest putting the boy in a mental hospital / home for idiots.
She said firmly that she would never put the boy in a mental hospital / a home for idiots, and that she was sure her son was not an idiot.
It was only a mother’s love for her son that gave her strength to hold out against the relatives.
Speak on the topic: What were Chris’ problems as a five-year-old child? P419
Chris was not a normal five-year-old (boy). Physically, he couldn’t sit up without support, let alone walk. His head fell sideways. His hands were clenched nearly all of the time. He
couldn’t hold things. His fingers twisted and twitched continually. Mentally, it emed as if he really was an idiot. Although his mother had been trying hard to communicate with him, he looked as if he couldn’t understand what she said to him. He couldn’t speak, nor did he smile properly. His relatives came to believe that he was beyond hope.
Write a paragraph of about 100 words on the topic: What did Chris’ mother do for him up to the time when he was five? P420
When Chris was a little over a year old, his mother began to take him to different doctors. Many told her he was mentally defective and that he was beyond cure. But she firmly believed that her son was not an idiot. She was determined to treat him the same as her other children, and she t out to prove that she was ritht. Patiently she tried to teach him a few words, but the boy never made any sign that he understood her. All the time she had to hold out against her relatives, who insisted that he should not be taken riously. When Chris was five years old and emed as hopeless as before, the relatives suggested putting him in a home for idiots, his mother said firmly, “Never!”
