1 text
11 It started on a biting cold February morning.
2 I’ll cover your classes.
3 I was to close the file and write the obituary for the school paper.
4 the almost bare sheets in the file mocked the effort.
5 As far as I could tell， he had never done one happy， noisy kid thing. He had never been any body at all.
6 How do you go about making a boy into a zero？
7 The other academic sheep had followed with “dull”；
8 Even shy， timid， sweet children have resilience. It takes time to break them.
9 A child is a believing creature. Cliff undoubtedly believed them.
10 He has been my challenge year after year， class after class.
11 …the school board， but I won’t have one of you coming out of here thinking himself into a zero.
2 phrase
1 stop（sb） short
The marching soldiers stopped short at the general’s command.
When the driver saw an old lady crossing the street， he brought the car to a sudden stop
2 come/bring sth to a stop
Passengers began to crowd at the door before the train came to a stop.
3 against
4 tap sb on the arm/shoulder ， take sb by the hand， seize sb by the arm， hit sb over the head/in the stomach
5 drop dead ： die suddenly and unexpectedly without having previously been ill
6 I’d appreciate your doing st/it if………
We’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t mention our identity.
I’d appreciate your understanding my absence from the party.
7 your going our
8 in person
9 see sth/sb in one’s mind’s eye ： imagine and have a clear picture of it/him/her in one’s mind
She can see in her mind’s eye the white building where she had classes twenty years ago.
10 close ： bring sth to an end/ come to an end
The chairman closed the meeting with a short speech
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