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　　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.

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　　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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