Do you remember the name of your kindergarten(幼儿园) teacher? I do. Her name was Mrs White.
I don’t remember much about
we learned in her class, but my mother once told me that we
write a lot. And I would bring back what I wrote and she could see there were so many mistakes.
no red corrections. And always a star. Sometimes even a Good! It worried my mother, so one day she went to
Mrs White and asked her why she
corrected my mistakes.
And my mother says Mrs White said “The children are just
to get excited about using words, about forming sentences. I don’t want to lose the interests with red ink(墨水).
and grammar can wait. The wonder of
won’t... ”.Maybe she didn’t say it exactly like that at that moment. And what my mother gave me was the main idea of what she could remember.
I
now and think Mrs White must have been a rather
teacher. She encouraged joy, wonder and excitement — even if our expression of it was
. Because she believed a bud(花蕾)once nipped(掐断) never opens.
I used to misspell “beautiful” a lot. Never could quite remember that the e went
the a. It annoyed my teacher in high school very much. If I was going to use the word so often, she considered the
I could do was spell it right. Finally the e’s and a’s were in their right places. Am glad I didn’t wait on them though. Pretty is
to spell but it doesn’t hold as much as you mean sometimes.
And
Mrs White I had no worries about writing what I meant. Because Life isn’t Pretty. It’s Baeutiful.
| 小题2: | | A．liked to | B．supposed to | C．used to | D．happened to |
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| 小题4: | | A．chat | B．criticize | C．show | D．meet |
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| 小题5: | | A．often | B．always | C．never | D．sometimes |
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| 小题6: | | A．beginning | B．staring | C．thinking | D．opening |
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| 小题7: | | A．Speaking | B．Reading | C．Listening | D．Spelling |
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| 小题8: | | A．exams | B．words | C．exercises | D．homework |
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| 小题9: | | A．look forward | B．look after | C．look for | D．look back |
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| 小题10: | | A． excellent | B．strict | C．hardworking | D．careless |
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| 小题11: | | A． right | B．wrong | C．good | D．bad |
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| 小题12: | | A．behind | B．after | C．before | D．below |
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| 小题13: | | A．best | B．worst | C．most | D．least |
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| 小题14: | | A．easy | B．easier | C．funny | D．funnier |
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| 小题15: | | A． think of | B．come up with | C．thanks to | D．remind of |
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