1. (2023七下·广州月考)  阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21～30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

There was a woman who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben, because he was not doing1 in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so2 . The mother decided that she herself would have to get her sons to do3 in school. She told them to get to the public library to read a4 a week and do a report about it for her. One day, in Ben's class, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone5 it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him6 . When Ben raised his hand, the students in the class7 because he never said anything. What could he possibly say? Ben not only knew the rock, but also said a lot about it. He named other8 in its group and even knew where the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were9. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book reports. Gradually, Ben went to the10 of his class.

When he finished high school, he went to a famous university and later became one of the best doctors in his country. Then he learned something about his mother that he had not known as a child. She herself had never learned how to read.