In 1972, I returned to Miami Beach High School to speak to the drama class. Afterward I asked the drama teacher
any of my English teachers are still there. Irene Roberts, he tells me, is in the class
down the hall.
I was no one special in Miss Roberts’ class — just another student who did okay work. I don’t recall any one special bit of wisdom she passed on. Yet I cannot forget her
for language, for ideas and for her students. I
now, many years later, that she is the perfect example of a
teacher. I’d like to say something to her, I say, but I don’t want to
her from a class. Nonsense, he says, she’ll be
to see you.
The drama teacher
Miss Roberts into the hallway where stands this 32-year-old man she last saw at 18. “I’m Mark Medoff,” I tell her. “You were my 12th-grade English teacher in 1958.” She
her head to one side and looks at me, as if this angle might remember me in her
. And then, though armed with a message I want to
in many words, I can’t think up anything more memorable than this: “I want you to know,” I say, “you were
to me.”
And there in the hallway, this lovely woman, now nearing
age, this teacher who doesn’t remember me, begins to weep; and she encircles me in her arms.
this moment, I begin to sense that everything I will ever know, everything I will ever pass to my students, is an inseparable part of a legacy(遗产) of our ancestors.
Irene Roberts holds me
in her arms and through her tears whispers
my cheek, “Thank you.” And then, with the briefest of looks into my forgotten face, she
back into her classroom,
to what she has done thousands of days through all the years of my
.
On reflection, maybe those were,
, just the right words to say to Irene Roberts. Maybe they are the very words I would like to speak to all those teachers through my life, the very words I would like spoken to me one day by some returning student: “I want you to know you were important to me.”
| 小题2: | | A．just | B．almost | C．nearly | D．about |
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| 小题3: | | A．kindness | B．respect | C．friendship | D．love |
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| 小题4: | | A．know | B．learn | C．realize | D．believe |
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| 小题5: | | A．selfish | B．self-confident | C．self-conscious | D．selfless |
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| 小题7: | | A．upset | B．delighted | C．interested | D．annoyed |
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| 小题8: | | A．brings | B．takes | C．fetches | D．introduces |
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| 小题9: | | A．bows | B．raises | C．rises | D．puts |
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| 小题10: | | A．thought | B．brain | C．attention | D．memory |
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| 小题11: | | A．announce | B．speak | C．deliver | D．tell |
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| 小题12: | | A．useful | B．important | C．hopeful | D．beneficial |
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| 小题13: | | A．retirement | B．enjoyment | C．employment | D．happiness |
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| 小题14: | | A．Reminding | B．Explaining | C．Remembering | D．Forgetting |
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| 小题15: | | A．happily | B．straight | C．calmly | D．briefly |
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| 小题16: | | A．against | B．with | C．off | D．beyond |
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| 小题17: | | A．escapes | B．gathers | C．disappears | D．fails |
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| 小题18: | | A．longs | B．continues | C．goes | D．returns |
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| 小题19: | | A．absence | B．class | C．work | D．task |
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| 小题20: | | A．or rather | B．in addition | C．as usual | D．after all |
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