北京中考完形文章出自美国德克萨斯周杂志

 　原文：Her Name Was Mrs. Claussen - And She Cared           

    by Dr. Lee Reeves
therapists over the years I'd lost count. Another school, another therapist. I wondered why I even bothered to go. My stuttering seemed to be just as much of a problem now as it always was, and besides I hated to miss P.E. How did they find out that I stutter anyway? The last school must have sent my records. It was pretty hard to hide the way I talked. As I walked down the hallway, memories popped in my head of how painful being a kid who stutters had been. Memories of how the kids used to call me "Motor Mouth," and of the teacher who asked me if I had "lock-jaw." It still hurt.


blew that introduction, and figured she probably thought I was a goof ball. "Well," she said with a kind smile, "I've always liked Texas."

was different though. She spent the first several weeks just talking to me - asking me all kinds of questions about myself - about feelings - about what I thought I did when I blocked. And she listened. She began to teach me about the fundamentals of speech. Not just about my speech, but about everybody's. Mrs. Claussen taught me about technical things, like circumlocution (a fancy term for avoiding words). And she listened.
it without stuttering. Somehow Mrs. Claussen pulled some strings, rearranged my whole schedule, and got me in the choir. I felt like she really cared about me as a person, not just a speech student.

I would ever be able to communicate. It was a very depressing time, and I often felt alone.
change my speech and become more fluent that I could, but that it was all up to me. I remembered she said not to strive for perfect speech, just better speech. She was right about that, too. I eventually looked for and found another speech therapist. I began to work very hard and over the next couple of years improved my speech considerably.
as much impact on her other students as she had on me. I like to think that she did. I'll never forget her. Her name was Mrs. Claussen . . . and she cared.
(Dr. Lee Reeves is veterinarian who operated his own clinic in Plano, Texas. His city honored him by naming him Businessman of the Year. Besides giving of his personal time to visit with children who stutter, he also works on behalf of women and children who are victims of abuse. He founded the Dallas Chapter of the National Stuttering Project in 1981, and is still active in that group). (The above article first appeared in The Staff, October 1992, and appears here with permission of Lee Reeves - JAK)