题目内容
I’m a teacher. But there are days, like today, when I wonder why. The results of an English quiz taken by my fifth-graders were depressing. Despite my best efforts, the world of pronouns remains a mystery to them. How I wish there were a way to make the study of our language as exciting as a computer game, so the glazed (目光呆滞) looks would not appear in their eyes at the mention of the word “grammar.” I remember my husband’s words: “Why don’t you quit? You’d probably make more money by doing something else, and you wouldn’t have papers to grade every night.”
Tonight I have a stack of papers to grade, which I promised my students I would return tomorrow. But a friend, whom I haven’t seen in a year, is visiting from Belgium, and I told her I would keep this evening free.
Sitting in traffic behind a distant stoplight, it’s hard not to replay the day. A voice reports the body of a local youngster, missing for weeks, has been identified.
This missing child has had a deep effect on my students. They wondered, “If it happened to her, could it happen to me?”
My children had found the answer themselves. They got out their pencils, markers and made cards. Cards were written with words of compassion and love for a mother and father they didn’t know. Cards were filled with red hearts, golden crosses, flowers and angels. Their cards, intended to comfort others, comforted the children themselves by leading them past the anxiety, back into the world of security (安全) that should be theirs.
And then I remember why I’m still teaching. It’s the children. They’re more important than a lifetime filled with quiet evenings and more valuable than a pocket filled with money. My classroom, a child-filled world of discovery, of kindness and of caring is the real world.
It’s time to call my friend. I have promises to keep. She’ll understand. After all, she’s a teacher.
【小题1】The writer wonders why she is a teacher because _____.
| A．her students often play games in class |
| B．teaching is not a well-paid job |
| C．her students feel bored with grammar |
| D．she feels frustrated at teaching |
| A．doubt | B．unconcern | C．sympathy | D．tolerance |
| A．A pocket filled with money. |
| B．The kind and caring children. |
| C．A lifetime filled with quiet evenings. |
| D．The freedom to control her own time. |
| A．To grade papers that night. | B．To help a student with homework. |
| C．To accept her husband’s advice. | D．To meet her old friend. |
【小题1】D
【小题1】C
【小题1】B
【小题1】A
解析【小题1】D 第一题询问作者对自己教师的身份怀疑的原因，文章第一段提到The results of an English quiz taken by my fifth-graders were depressing，由此可以得知是因为她对教学感到灰心才会有此想法，故选择D
【小题1】C 理解题。学生们的态度被作者总结为intended to comfort others，即他们想要安慰过世孩子的父母，可推测知他们是出于同情，故选择C
【小题1】B 第三题询问对于做着什么是最珍贵的，文章提到. It’s the children. They’re more important than……所以在作者心中学生比一切都重要，所以选择B
【小题1】A 细节题。作者许了两个诺言，一是批改试卷，二是接待朋友，但从最后一段的She’ll understand. After all, she’s a teacher可以得知作者决定遵守与学生的诺言，故选择A
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| For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5: 30 a. m., except Sunday, and went to work.I__1__ saw my father home from work ill.He had no hobbies, __2__taking care of his family. For 22 years, __3__I left home for college, my father__4__me every Sunday at 9?00 a. m..He was always interested in my__5__, or how my family was doing, and I never once heard him__6__about his lot (生活状况) in life.The calls even came when he and my mother were in other states. Nine years ago when I__7__my first house, my father,67 years old, spent three days__8__my house. He would not__9__me to pay someone to have it done.All he __10__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and to talk to him.But I was too__11__.I had a law practice to run, and I could not take__12__to hold the brush, or talk to my father.__13__things happened several times later. The morning on Sunday.January 16,1996, my father telephoned me__14__, this time from my sister's home in Florida.But the__15__came again at 4?40 p. m.that day.My father was in the__16__in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤). I got on an airplane__17__, and on the way, I__18__of all the times I had not ta ken the time to talk to my father.I determined that when I arrived, I would__19__for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him. I arrived in Florida at 11?30 p. m., my father had__20__at 9?12 p. m..This time it was he who did not have time to talk, or to wait for me. | ||||
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---I’m fed up with studying.
---What nonsense! You’ve only got one year more to do. Then you’ll have your qualification and after that _____________
| A．content is better than riches | B．it is not your cup of tea |
| C．the world is your oyster | D．well begun is half done |