『Eleven-year-old Vladimir Putin infuriated his gym teacher, skipped his math homework, nearly flunked drawing, and in short, was “one of us”, a popular Russian tabloid declared. The paper announced it had unearthed Putin’s grade book in the attic of a small wooden house where he spent his childhood. The evidence hardly bore signs of future greatness. Putin’s marks were mediocre. On the Soviet five-point scale he got threes in arithmetic and nature science and a worrying two in drawing.
The only subject in which he scored a perfect five was history. But he also got a five for “behavior”, despite the pestering of his gym teacher. In the year since the president took power, Russian and foreign media have dug for details of the Russian president’s past, much of which has remained in the shadows because of his career as a one-time KGB spy.』
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Vocabulary
infuriate，激怒、使大怒
flunk，不及格
tabloid，小报、通俗小报
unearth，发掘、揭露
attic，阁楼
mediocre，普通的、中等的
perster，使为难
Phrases
in short，简而言之
in the year since…，自从那一年开始
take power，掌权
dug for details，挖掘细节
one's past，某人的过去
remain in the shadows，保持未知
其实不只是普京，任何孩子都可以变得伟大。三岁看到老不一定是准确的。有时多点耐心、多点支持，对于孩子成长会有莫大的益处。你看到的只是三分，但满分总共五分是你没看到的。
