When I began teaching in a university,I was invited to a workshop for new professors. I had 1 a long time learning what to teach,but not learning how to 2 it. Somehow,my university seemed to hope a weekend spent with experienced professors would 3 for that. My colleagues presented well-crafted lectures about the tools they used. I enjoyed their 4 , but do not remember a thing they said.

   At a coffee break during the lectures,finding myself 5 , I turned to a mathematics professor standing near-by. I asked him what his favourite teaching 6 was. “A cup of coffee,” he said. “I talk too much and too fast in the classroom. Students sometimes have trouble  7 me. So when I've said 8 that I want my students to think about,I would 9 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 10 there was not a trace of coffee in it.

    My doctor 11 me to stop drinking coffeehe explained. “So I have always used a (n) 12 cup. MI decided to try his 13 in my class.

    I took a cup of coffee with me to my next class. It helped. My pauses,as I 14 the coffee,not only gave my students 15 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 16 to look around the room to see how my students were reacting to what I had just said. When I saw their 17 wander,! tried to bring them back. When I saw them puzzled over some concept that I thought I had 18 ,I gave another example. My 19 became less organised and less brilliant,but my students seemed to 20 me better.

1. A. wasted   B. cost

   C. killed   D. spent

2. A. manage   B. copy

   C. teach   D. consider

3. A. put up   B. build up

   C. take up   D. make up

4. A. experiences   B. plans

   C. presentations   D. designs

5. A. alone   B. absent

   C. lonely   D. awkward

6. A. method   B. material

   C. tool   D. skill

7. A. following   B. grasping

   C. seizing   D. imitating

8. A. everything   B. something

   C. nothing   D. anything

9. A. pretend   B. stop

   C. prevent   D. delay

10. A. observed   B. noticed

   C. glared   D. proved

11. A. suggested   B. protected

   C. allowed   D. advised

12. A. empty   B. clear

   C. large   D. false

13. A. discovery   B. invention

   C. magic   D. idea

14. A. dropped   B. made

   C. drank   D. changed

15. A. space   B. time

   C. room   D. schedule

16. A. chances   B. pauses

   C. situations   D. conditions

17. A. attention   B. focus

   C. energy   D. devotion

18. A. translated   B. expected

   C. explained   D. solved

19. A. speeches   B. memories

   C. documents   D. lectures

20. A. realise   B. understand

   C. admit   D. admire

   Hopefully,you feel like your friends are your back when you need it. But how many of them would give you a 1 ride?

   Lu Shao,a teenager from Hebei,China,has a true 2 named Liu Shicheng. Lu Shao has an illness that makes 3 difficult for him to walk. As a young child,Lu Shao would 4 his mother to pick him up from and back to school. But one day,she wasn’t able to make it Liu Shicheng gave him a ride home—on his own back.

   From then on,he has carried his best friend to and from school,and even helped him get around the school hallways. Nowadays,Lu Shao is much 5 than he was as an eight-year-old boy,but Liu Shicheng says 6 his weight is not a problem.

   “How can I carry him when he's so heavy? I am happy to help him and it's been 8 years already ,” he said. 

   The young man has never 7 what he did. It 8 four years for his parents to find out about his 9 . As for Lu Shao,his friend's friendship has helped him find his own happiness. He wrote in his diary that Liu Shicheng had 10 a dark cloud and let sunshine into his life.

We should all be so lucky to have a friend like that.

() 1. A. bike   B. horse   C. back   D. bus

() 2. A. friend   B. brother   C. sister   D. cousin

() 3. A. this   B. that   C. it   D. its

() 4. A. stand up   B. look for   C. look at   D. wait for

() 5. A. thinner   B. taller   C. shorter   D. heavier

() 6. A. taking   B. carrying   C. bringing   D. riding

() 7. A. thought of   B. talked about

   C. put up   D. put down

() 8. A. took   B. cost   C. paid   D. spent

() 9. A. happiness   B. kindness   C. weight   D. thought

() 10. A. bought   B. threw   C. lifted   D. cut

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