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Who doesn't love a class clown? They spoil lessons, steal the spotlight and, to make matters worse，sometimes they're actually funny. It's not easy to enforce class rules when you're laughing. But what if, instead of seeing them as a nuisance, we saw them as a gift?

Lawrence Davis is the typical class clown, overconfident and naughty. "Every teacher enjoys me," he says. "I'm not going to say I'm the life of the class, but I bring the class to life."

 It hasn't always been that way. “He was hopeless as a freshman,” remembers Leann Ferguson, who taught Lawrence in her world history class. "He acted out improperly all the time," she says. But to her, Lawrence wasn't just another class clown. He was gifted. And his gift was his dynamic personality.    

"Typically the class clown is not troubling the class for the sake of disrupting class," says Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist. Class clowns usually act out when they're bored or confused, he says. They would rather stick to something they're good at, like making people laugh.

And most of the time, Ferguson would laugh right along with Lawrence. He was still expected to do the class work and his jokes weren't tolerated if they were at the expense of another student.

Ross Greene, who studies disruptive students, calls that kind of gift a "raw skill". And raw skills "have to be molded so that they are being used in the best interest of the group," he says, which takes patience and a change in perspective(视角).

 Ferguson just had to put Lawrence's gift to good use. So she enlisted his help to get the class back on track when they were having a hard time focusing. Lawrence began to understand that he was an example to his classmates. They followed his lead. The better he behaved in class, the better they behaved, too. With time he went from an enemy to a friend.

 And now this class clown is on track to graduate. He is applying for colleges. He's using his gift for good.

21. The underlined word in Para. 1 most probably means _______.

    A. an annoying student                                  B. a talented student

    C. a crazy student                                          D. a hard-working student

22. According to Steinberg, the class clowns make trouble_______.

    A. to show off their sense of humor         B. just out of boredom in class

    C. to play tricks on other students                 D. for the purpose of disturbing the class

did Ferguson deal with Lawrence’s raw skills?

    A. By asking him some questions in class.

    B. By satisfying the needs of Lawrence.

    C. By making him a model to other students.

    D. By involving him in a group of interest.

24. What can we learn from the story of Lawrence?

    A. Facing a class clown with a determination.

    B. Taking up the challenge of a class clown.

    C. Controlling the behaviors of class clowns.

    D. Working with the strengths of class clowns.

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