That morning, I stepped into the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with seventy-five students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in
for seventeen years, I had no
about my ability to hold their attention and toimpress on them my
for the literature of my mother tongue.
As I entered the room, I was
when the monitor shouted: “Stand up!” The entire class rose, and I was somewhat
about how to get them to sit down again. Once that awkwardness was over, I quickly
my calmness and began what I thought was an informed lecture, sure to gain their respect — perhaps
their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.
I asked my students to keep
as homework. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually
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. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical
for all the works we’ll study in class,” I complained. “How
they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it
became clear that my ideas about
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
their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide
information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
, I benefited a lot, for my experience with my Chinese students has made me a
American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
| 小题1: | | A．England | B．America | C．China | D．Australia |
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| 小题2: | | A．worry | B．idea | C．doubt | D．skill |
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| 小题3: | | A．profession | B．admiration | C．explanation | D．expression |
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| 小题4: | | A．attracted | B．embarrassed | C．amused | D．shocked |
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| 小题5: | | A．puzzled | B．sure | C．worried | D．curious |
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| 小题6: | | A．reminded | B．returned | C．regained | D．recovered |
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| 小题7: | | A．more | B．even | C．yet | D．still |
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| 小题8: | | A．discussions | B．notes | C．compositions | D．diaries |
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| 小题9: | | A．replaced | B．frightened | C．troubled | D．moved |
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| 小题10: | | A．Later | B．Perhaps | C．Somehow | D．Indeed |
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| 小题11: | | A．common | B．strong | C．similar | D．strange |
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| 小题12: | | A．happenings | B．characters | C．development | D．background |
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| 小题13: | | A．should | B．need | C．will | D．must |
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| 小题14: | | A．immediately | B．certainly | C．simply | D．gradually |
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| 小题15: | | A．admiration | B．question | C．education | D．conclusion |
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| 小题16: | | A．difficult | B．interesting | C．essential | D．general |
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| 小题17: | | A．draw | B．find | C．search | D．offer |
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| 小题18: | | A．special | B．standard | C．exact | D．serious |
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| 小题19: | | A．Therefore | B．However | C．Then | D．Though |
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| 小题20: | | A．richer | B．happier | C．friendlier | D．better |
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