When I began teaching in a university, I was invited to a workshop for new professors. I had ____ a long time learning what to teach, but not learning how to ____ it. Somehow, my university seemed to hope a weekend spent with experienced professors would ____ for that. My colleagues presented wellcrafted lectures about the tools they used. I enjoyed their ___， but do not remember a thing they said.
At a coffee break during the lectures, finding myself ____， I turned to a mathematics professor standing nearby. I asked him what his favorite teaching ____ was. “A cup of coffee，” he said, “I talk too much and too fast in the classroom. Students sometimes have trouble ____ me. So when I've said____ that I want my students to think about, I would____ and take a sip of coffee. It lets what I've just said sink in.”
When we were called to the next talk, he put down his cup and I ____ there was not a trace of coffee in it. “My doctor ____ me to stop drinking coffee，” he explained. “So I have always used a(n)____ cup.” I decided to try his ____ in my class.
I took a cup of coffee with me to my next class. It helped. My pauses, as I ____ the coffee, not only gave my students ____ to think about what I had said, but gave me time to think about what I was going to say next. I began to use my ____ to look around the room to see how my students were reacting to what I had just said. When I saw their ____ wander, I tried to bring them back. When I saw them puzzled over some concept that I thought I had ____， I gave another example. My ____ became less organized and less brilliant, but my students seemed to ____ me better.
| 小题1: | | A．wasted | B．cost | C．killed | D．spent |
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| 小题2: | | A．manage | B．copy | C．teach | D．consider |
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| 小题3: | | A．put up | B．build up | C．take up | D．make up |
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| 小题4: | | A．experiences | B．plans | C．presentations | D．designs |
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| 小题5: | | A．alone | B．absent | C．lonely | D．awkward |
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| 小题6: | | A．method | B．material | C．tool | D．skill |
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| 小题7: | | A．following | B．grasping | C．seizing | D．imitating |
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| 小题8: | | A．everything | B．something | C．nothing | D．anything |
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| 小题9: | | A．pretend | B．stop | C．prevent | D．delay |
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| 小题10: | | A．observed | B．noticed | C．glared | D．proved |
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| 小题11: | | A．suggested | B．protected | C．allowed | D．advised |
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| 小题12: | | A．empty | B．clear | C．large | D．false |
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| 小题13: | | A．discovery | B．invention | C．magic | D．idea |
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| 小题14: | | A．dropped | B．made | C．drank | D．changed |
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| 小题15: | | A．space | B．time | C．room | D．schedule |
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| 小题16: | | A．chances | B．pauses | C．situations | D．conditions |
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| 小题17: | | A．attention | B．focus | C．energy | D．devotion |
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| 小题18: | | A．translated | B．expected | C．explained | D．solved |
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| 小题19: | | A．speeches | B．memories | C．documents | D．lectures |
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| 小题20: | | A．realize | B．understand | C．admit | D．admire |
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