完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项 ，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A teacher teaching maths to seven-year-old Laiq asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”
Within a few seconds, Laiq 36 confidently, “Four!”
The confused teacher was expecting a(n) 37 correct answer, three. She was disappointed. “Maybe the child did not listen 38 ” she thought. She 39 “Laiq, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”
Laiq had seen the 40 on his teacher’s face. He 41 again on his fingers. But within him he was also 42 the answer that would make the teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, “Four.”
