That morning, I stepped into the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with seventy-five students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in
1 for seventeen years, I had no
2 about my ability to hold their attention and to
3 on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, "
4 !" The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat
5 about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness was over, I quickly
6 my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect—perhaps
7 their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.
My students
8 diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually
9 by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, "Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today.
10 her next lecture will be better." Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a
11 theme. "Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical
12 for all the works we’ll study in class," I complained." How _
13 they say I didn’t teach them anything?"
It was a long term, and it
14 became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as_
15 of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise
16 questions and provide enough background so that students could
17 their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide _
18_ information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
_19 , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a
20 American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
| 小题1: | | A．the UK | B．the US | C．China | D．Australia |
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| 小题2: | | A．worry | B．idea | C．doubt | D．experience |
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| 小题3: | | A．impress | B．put | C．leave | D．fix |
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| 小题4: | | A．Attention | B．Look out | C．At ease | D．Stand up |
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| 小题5: | | A．puzzled | B．sure | C．curious | D．worried |
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| 小题6: | | A．found | B．returned | C．regained | D．followed |
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| 小题7: | | A．more | B．even | C．yet | D．still |
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| 小题8: | | A．passed | B．borrowed | C．read | D．kept |
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| 小题9: | | A．replaced | B．taken | C．caught | D．moved |
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| 小题10: | | A．Naturally | B．Perhaps | C．Fortunately | D．Reasonably |
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| 小题11: | | A．different | B．strong | C．similar | D．usual |
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| 小题12: | | A．happenings | B．characters | C．development | D．background |
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| 小题13: | | A．should | B．need | C．will | D．must |
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| 小题14: | | A．immediately | B．certainly | C．simply | D．gradually |
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| 小题15: | | A．that | B．what | C．those | D．ones |
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| 小题16: | | A．difficult | B．interesting | C．ordinary | D．unusual |
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| 小题17: | | A．draw | B．look | C．search | D．offer |
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| 小题18: | | A．strange | B．standard | C．exact | D．serious |
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| 小题19: | | A．Therefore | B．However | C．Besides | D．Though |
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| 小题20: | | A．normal | B．happy | C．good | D．better |
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