The Dream Keeper教案

    —that's hard to say. but ____you will experience a cultural shock.
    a. nothing is for sure            b. as a matter of fact
    c. one thing is for sure          d. to tell you the truth

（c）完形填空
during spring break from a local college, my friend and i went downtown to shop. first, however, we   1   ourselves quite differently so that our friends might not recognize us. our clothing was not fit   2   the weather, clean but not ironed, clearly not the styles   3   by most visitors to the area. both of us were slightly   4   . the aim was to look like street people and to observe what difference that made in the way other people respond to us   5   the appearance of poverty （貧困）would invite prejudice （偏見）on us.
our first stop was in the bargain store（打折商店）, where we politely asked to   6   the bathroom and were refused. next we entered the lobby（大廳） of a large hotel,   7   we asked for a coffee shop and a bathroom. the door man said, “you must go to the twentieth floor.” we weren't up trying out, so we wandered around the first floor and   8   from   9   we went to a second-hand shop, where we more or less blended（混合）with the   10   , and then on to the upper-scale （上等階層）   11   and coffee shops during the lunch hour.
it was prejudice time. some of the children we   12   stared, pointed, and laughed;   13   gave us long, doubting looks. clerks in stores followed us to   14   every move. in a lunchroom a second assistant   15   to the side of the cashier（出納員）, where they took $ 2 check without asking for id; it seemed worth that price to have us   16   of the door. at one doorway a clerk physically blocked the way to prevent us from   17  .
we had money to buy something small, and we did nothing in   18   of these places to draw attention to ourselves; we merely   19   quietly in our usual manner. elsewhere we encountered ribbing（取笑）, imitating（模仿）, lack of trust, and rude stares（粗魯的眼神）.
so what did we learn? mostly   20   we expected, what everybody knows: people judge by appearances.