Du Juan, the 25-year-old painting teacher is now the only graduate of an art school employed to teach students in the nine grades at Wangji School in Dongxiang County(县), Gansu Province.She graduated from Longdong College in Gansu Province in 2009 and began teaching that autumn.
She used to feel impatient towards naughty kids.She had never expected she would become a teacher in a rural(农村的)primary school when she was in high school.
She had great trouble when she first started at the school.Very few of the first-grade students, who were mostly six or seven years old, could understand what she was saying in Mandarin(普通话).It was not until she held her first painting class that she began to realize that, besides language, one can communicate through pictures.
She well remembers the first time she stood before her class and painted.She drew a scene she guessed most rural children would be familiar with.It described a rabbit hiding under mushrooms(蘑菇)to avoid getting wet in a heavy rain.But she was surprised to see how excited the students became at watching her work.“Wow! A rabbit! It was so much like a real rabbit!” some students shouted.It was the first time that many of the students had seen someone painting.
Before she started painting, the kids were even not able to talk to her because of the language difference.She now shows her students how they can draw the pictures she has copied from books.Sometimes, though, when she asks them about a particular painting, they misunderstand her.She knows there are too many things that they have never seen, and then they have no idea about what she is trying to show them.
Last year, she received a notebook as a good-bye gift from a girl who had graduated from primary school.When she opened it, she saw that the girl had drawn a small flower in different colours at the corner of every page.She has been amazed by the children's cleverness and use of colour.“Beautiful things are always on their minds,” Du said, “The students are just very shy.”
(1)
The trouble Du Juan met at first was that ________.
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A.
her students were too young and too naughty
B.
none of her students could speak Mandarin
C.
her students had never seen a rabbit before
D.
few students could understand what she said
(2)
We can learn from the passage that ________.
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A.
girls will get more active if they learn painting
B.
language is not the only way of communication
C.
most rural kids prefer painting to language learning
D.
many college graduates like teaching in rural schools