2016年高考英语完形填空训练-有详解(05)

I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be in my English Literature class. Having ___1___ in the USA for 17 years, I had no doubt about my ability to hold their ___2___ and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted “___3___!” and the entire class rose as I ___4___ the room, and I was somewhat ___5___ about how to get them to sit down again, but as soon as that awkwardness(尴尬) was over, I quickly ___6___ my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, ___7___ to gain their respect—perhaps even their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of ___8___.

My students kept diaries. ___9___, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually ___10___ by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach anything today. Perhaps her next ___11___ will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a ___12___ theme. “Didn’t teach anything? I described the entire philosophical(哲学的) framework of Western thought and laid the historical background for all the works we’ll study in class, ” I ___13___. “How can they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

It was a long term, and it gradually became ___14___ that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to ___15___ interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could ___16___ their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact information as ___17___ and clearly as possible. What a ___18___!

However, I also learned a lot, and my ___19___ with my Chinese students has made a better American teacher, knowing how to teach in a(n) different ___20___.

1. A. taught               B. inspected              C. studied                 D. lived

2. A. interest             B. seat                      C. pace                     D. attention

3. A. Attention          B. Silent                   C. Stand up               D. Look out

4. A. left                   B. attended                C. entered                 D. excited

5. A. afraid               B. puzzled                 C. shy                      D. glad

6. A. gathered           B. found                   C. regained               D. kept

7. A. happy               B. anxious                 C. sure                     D. eager

8. A. failure              B. achievement          C. teaching               D. humour

9. A. Worse still        B. However               C. Though                D. Besides

10. A. faded              B. changed                C. replaced               D. matched

11. A. diary              B. lecture                  C. performance         D. appearance

12. A. same               B. interesting             C. serious                 D. similar

13. A. explained        B. complained           C. taught                  D. guessed

14. A. dull                B. clear                     C. sorry                    D. heavy

15. A. answer            B. raise                     C. organize               D. design

16. A. get                 B. receive                 C. make                    D. draw

17. A. quickly           B. secretly                 C. directly                D. easily

18. A. success            B. difference             C. pity                      D. problem

19. A. exploration      B. experience            C. work                    D. life

20. A. class               B. way                      C. culture                 D. society

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