I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great 41 . It might even be the greatest of the art 42 it’s the medium between the human mind and spirit.
I shall speak only of my first 43 because in addition to the other things, she 44 discovery.
She aroused us to shouting, book waving discussions. She had the 45 class in school and she didn’t even seem to know it. We could 46 stick to the textbooks. She 47 curiosity into us so that we found facts or truths 48 in our hands like captured fireflies.
She was fired and perhaps 49 so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such things must be 50 . But she left us a passion for the pure 51 world and she filled me with a 52 which has never left. I could not do simple math but 53 her I sensed that mathematics was very much like music.
When she was fired, 54 came over us but the light did not 55 . She left her signature for us, the literature of the teacher who wrote on our 56 . I suppose that to a larger extent I am the 57 manuscript(手稿) of the high school teacher. What deathless power 58 the hands of such a person.
I can tell my son who looks forward with 59 to fifteen years of unpleasant study that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic 60 happen that will light up the years … if he is very lucky.
41.A.artists | B.scientists | C.doctors | D.actors |
42.A.when | B.since | C.however | D.so |
43.A.friend | B.classmate | C.teacher | D.roommate |
44.A.made | B.found | C.created | D.brought |
45.A.quietest | B.noisiest | C.loudest | D.bravest |
46.A.never | B.always | C.often | D.forever |
47.A.frightened | B.forced | C.breathed | D.preferred |
48.A.remained | B.left | C.laid | D.hidden |
49.A.rightly | B.wrongly | C.doubtfully | D.sadly |
50.A.practiced | B.learned | C.researched | D.experimented |
51.A.familiar | B.mysterious | C.knowable | D.frightful |
52.A.courage | B.determination | C.pleasure | D.curiosity |
53.A.through | B.with | C.to | D.before |
54.A.gladness | B.surprise | C.sadness | D.hesitation |
55.A.put off | B.make up | C.take away | D.go out |
56.A.minds | B.names | C.papers | D.books |
57.A.corrected | B.copied | C.unsigned | D.rewritten |
58.A.deals with | B.lies in | C.adds up | D.grows up |
59.A.horror | B.excitement | C.disappointment | D.joy |
60.A.may | B.should | C.must | D.can’t |