第三节  完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

【阅读】阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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 _21_ about my ability to hold their attention and to _22_ on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “_23_ !” and the entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat _24_ about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness(尴尬)was over, I quickly _25_ my calmness and began what I thought was a fact – packed lecture, sure to gain their respect – perhaps 26 their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a (n) _27 of achievements.

My students _28  diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually _29_ by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. _30_ her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a _31_ subject. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework(哲学体系)of Western thought and laid the historical _32_for all the works we’ll study in class.” I complained. “How _33_ they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

It was a long term, and it _34_ became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as _35_ of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise _36_ questions and provide enough background so that students could _37_ their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide _38_ information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

_39  , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a _40  American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

21. A. worry       B. idea            C. doubt                  D. experience

22. A. impress     B. put             C. leave                    D. fix

23. A. Attention   B. Look out        C. At ease                  D. Stand up

24. A. puzzled     B. sure            C. curious                  D. worried

25. A.found             B. returned          C. regained       D. followed

26. A. more             B. even            C. yet            D. still

27. A. thought          B. sense           C. feeling        D. idea

28. A. wrote            B. borrowed        C. kept           D. read

29. A. replaced         B. taken            C. caught        D. moved

30. A. Naturally        B. Perhaps             C. Fortunately   D. Reasonably

31. A. different        B. same              C. similar       D. usual

32. A. happenings       B. characters       C. development   D. background

33. A. should           B. can                C. will          D. must

34. A. immediately       B. certainly         C. simply        D. gradually

35. A. that             B. what             C. those         D. ones

36. A. difficult        B. interesting        C. ordinary      D. unusual

37. A. draw             B. get              C. decide        D. give

38. A. strange          B. standard         C. exact         D. serious

39. A. Therefore       B. However           C. Besides       D. Though

40. A. normal             B. happy            C. good          D. better

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.

1.                A.the UK         B.the US          C.China    D.Australia

 

2.                A.worry          B.idea            C.doubt    D.experience

 

3.                A.impress         B.put            C.leave     D.fix

 

4.                A.Attention       B.Look out        C.At ease   D.Stand up

 

5.                A.puzzled         B.sure           C.curious   D.worried

 

6.                A.found          B.returned        C.regained  D.followed

 

7.                A.more          B.even           C.yet D.still

 

8.                A.passed         B.borrowed       C.read     D.kept

 

9.                A.replaced        B.taken           C.caught    D.moved

 

10.               A.Naturally        B.Perhaps        C.Fortunately     D.Reasonably

 

11.               A.different        B.strong          C.similar D.usual

 

12.               A.happenings      B.characters      C.development   D.background

 

13.               A.should         B.need           C.will   D.must

 

14.               A.immediately     B.certainly        C.simply     D.gradually

 

15.               A.that           B.what           C.those     D.ones

 

16.               A.difficult         B.interesting      C.ordinary   D.unusual

 

17.               A.draw           B.look           C.search    D.offer

 

18.               A.strange         B.standard        C.exact D.serious

 

19.               A.Therefore       B.However        C.Besides    D.Though

 

20.               A.normal         B.happy          C.good D.better

 

 

Last week, I bought an alarm system for about $ 450. It consisted of a control unit with three small units. I put the control unit in the sitting-room and fastened the other units by the front door, back door and living-room windows. The instructions told us to choose three numbers, so we chose 4, 9 and 1, the last three numbers of our telephone number.

Now I must explain how the alarm works:

l There is a power siren(警报器) in the control unit. It makes a very loud noise.

2 Each of the small units sends out beams or rays in different directions. If anything moves, it breaks a beam. This sends a signal to the control unit. The siren makes a noise which you can hear 50 meters away.

3. When we go to bed, I press the three buttons numbered 4, 9 and 1. Then we have 30 seconds to get out of the room before the alarm starts to work.

That night I slept soundly because I was sure that no burglar(夜贼) could get into our house. However, at about 2:10 a. m., I woke up and heard the siren. “There must be a burglar in the house,” Mary said. “What shall we do?”“I’ll go and see who’s there,” I said. “Stay here. Don’t make a noise.”I went downstairs quietly. When I reached the living-room, I switched on my torch and looked round the room. Then I turned the light on. I switched the siren off and searched the rooms downstairs. There was nothing wrong except that the back door was unlocked. I locked it, reset the alarm and went back to bed. About an hour later, the alarm started again. I jumped out of bed, fell over a chair in the dark and bumped into the bedroom door. Mary woke up and started hitting me with a torch. “Hey! Wait a minute!” I whispered. “It’s only me. I’m going downstairs to see what’s wrong.”I went down into the living-room and listened for a moment. The only sound I could hear was the siren. I turned on the light and then switched the siren off. As I did so, I glanced across at the curtains in front of the windows. I saw a house lizard (a kind of small animal) disappear behind the curtains.“Oh!” I said to myself. “That’s our burglar. ”When the lizard moved, it started the siren. I guessed that the alarm had been made in Europe, where there are no house lizards. Well. I won’t finish this story but if you want an alarm system free of charge, let me know. I’ll send you ours. We bought a dog this morning. It knows the difference between a lizard and a burglar.

1.The writer bought an alarm system to ________.

A.make sure that he got up early every day

B.warn him when there were lizards in his house

C.frighten burglars and tell him that somebody had got into the house

D.make Mary feel safe to live in the large room

2.The purpose of the three units was to________.

A.send a message to the control unit and start the siren

B.sound their own sirens when the control unit told them so

C.check that the control unit worked properly all the time

D.give them enough light

3.If the writer set the alarm and remained in the room for more than half a minute, _______.

A.nothing would happen

B.the control unit would not work

C.the siren would make a noise

D.the dog would bark

4.The purpose of the writer in writing the passage is to ________.

A.tell us that the alarm system doesn’t work

B.tell us an interesting experience

C.show us how the alarm system works

D.make it clear that he wants to give away his alarm system

 

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