I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in the US for 17 years, I had no 36 about my ability to hold their attention and to 37 on them my admiration for the literature(文学)of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “ 38 !” and the entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat 39 about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness(尴尬)was over, I quickly 40 my calmness and began what I thought was a fact – packed lecture, sure to gain their respect – perhaps 41 their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a (n) 42 of achievements.
My students 43 diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually 44 by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. 45 her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a 46 subject. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework(哲学体系)of Western thought and laid the historical 47 for all the works we’ll study in class,” I complained. “How 48 they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it 49 became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as 50 of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise 51 questions and provide enough background so that students could 52 their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide 53 information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
54 , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a 55 American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
36.A.worry B.idea C.doubt D.experience
37.A.impress B.put C.leave D.fix
38.A.Attention B.Look out C.At ease D.Stand up
39.A.puzzled B.sure C.curious D.worried
40.A.found B.returned C.regained D.followed
41.A.more B.even C.yet D.still
42.A.thought B.sense C.feeling D.idea
43.A.wrote B.borrowed C.kept D.read
44.A.replaced B.taken C.caught D.moved
45.A.Naturally B.Perhaps C.Fortunately D.Reasonably
46.A.different B.same C.similar D.usual
47.A.happenings B.characters C.development D.background
48.A.should B.can C.will D.must
49.A.immediately B.certainly C.simply D.gradually
50.A.that B.what C.those D.ones
51.A.difficult B.interesting C.ordinary D.unusual
52.A.draw B.getYCY C.decide D.give
53.A.strange B.standard C.exact D.serious
54.A.Therefore B.However C.Besides D.Though
55.A.normal B.happy C.good D.better
36—40 CADAC 41—45 BBCAB 46—50 CDBDC 51—55 BACBD
