Question

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 ____ for 17 years, I had no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “____!”

The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat ______ about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness(尴尬) was over, I quickly regained my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect--- perhaps _____ their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a sense of achievement.

My students kept diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually replaced by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. ____her next lecture will be better. Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a ____theme(主题). “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical(哲学的) framework of Western thought and laid the historical _____ for all the works we’ll study in class.” I complained. “How should they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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