九年級上Unit5 It must belong to Carla測試題及答案
( ) 20.a. because b. and c. or d. so
( b )
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 ____21____ 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, “____22____!”
the entire class rose as i entered the room, and i was somewhat ____23____ about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness(尷尬) was over, i quickly regained my calmness and began what i thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect--- perhaps ____24___ 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. ____25____ her next lecture will be better. greatly surprised, i read diary after diary, each expressing a ____26____ theme(主題). “didn’t i teach them anything? i described the entire philosophical(哲學的) framework of western thought and laid the historical ____27____ 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 ___28_____ 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!
____29____, i also learned a lot, and my experience with my chinese students has made me a ___30_____ american teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
21. a. the uk b. the us c. china d. australia
22. a. attention b. look out c. at ease d. stand up
23. a. puzzled b. sure c. curious d. worried
24. a. more b. even c. yet d. still
25. a. naturally b. perhaps c. fortunately d. reasonably
26. a. different b. strong c. similar d. usual
27. a. happenings b. characters c. development d. background