I arrived in the classroom，ready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature class. Having taught in the US for 17 years，I have 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,“stand up!” The entire class rose as I entered the room and l was somewhat confused about how to get them to sit down again，but once the embarrassment(尴尬) was over, I quickly regained my calmness and admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a strong 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 perhaps her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised．I read diary after diary, each expressing a similar theme “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire Western philosophy and laid the historical background for all the works we will 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 interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact in formation as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

    However, I also learned a lot，and the experience with my Chinese students has made me a better American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

51.We can know that on the first day the writer__________.

    A. was disappointed at her students’ performance

    B. was very confident in her students

    C. felt she didn’t teach them much

    D. felt very confident in herself at first

52.At the beginning of the lesson，the writer got confused because of__________.

    A. cultural differences      B. students’ admiration

    C. students’ embarrassment    D. the same experience

53．The writer learnt from their diaries that the students wanted to___________.

    A. raise interesting questions    B. know about background

    C. draw their own conclusions     D. know more exact facts

54.Which of the following is FALSE according to the passage?

    A. The writer doubted about her ability of teaching.

    B. The writer became better at teaching foreign students.

    C. The writer had taken up her career for years.

D. The writer was upset when reading the students’ diaries．

55. The underlined word “philosophy” would probably NOT be _________．

A.  set of beliefs

B．outlook on life

C．study of the principles

       D.  understanding of art

One winter during college in New York, I took an 8 am history class to fulfill a requirement. It was 36 to get up for that class, but every morning I would 37 the cold winds and went to the lecture.

The professor for the class would step 38 into the room. He was terribly nervous about the class and always fixed his eyes on his book, never 39 us.

I felt that I needed to do something to 40 the boredom, so I tried to find something in his lecture to ask him, 41 me to pay attention rather than letting my eyes close. The first time 42 I raised my hand, he was surprised but was obviously 43 to have a question to answer. I continued to do this every day. The professor seemed to become a bit more 44 and some other students even joined in. In fact, his answers were always 45. In this way, I learned quite a lot and realized the professor was indeed a/an 46 in his field.

On the last day of class we 47 our books and headed out. The professor stepped directly in front of me, with obvious 48, putting out his hand. He said, “49 you for making my class so interesting,” shaking my hand and smiling. I was so 50. To me, it had been a pleasant way to 51 the time in his lesson. I had no idea that my 52 had any effect on him or the others at all.

That 53 has stayed with me for 30 years. I don’t 54 the fact I learned in his class, but I’ll never forget the professor who taught me a lesson about the 55 of acts of kindness, indeed or not.

While it is expected that students come to university with the ability to take a good set of notes，this is not always the case．High school may not have demanded it，so good listening and note-taking skills may need to be developed．

63．During a lesson          

    A．students might lose interest after 20 minutes

    B．most students might be absent―minded

    C．students prefer to talk to each other

    D．students don't have to pay attention to the last part of the lesson

64．the underlined part“the latter”refers to“          ”．

    A．imagining the lecture          B．reading the text beforehand

    C．questions to be answered       D．an interest in the material

65．The article is probably written for          ．

    A．high school students           B．grown―ups

    C．university students             D．teachers of English．

66．Which would be the best topic for the passage?

    A．How to Learn English well     B．Listening and Note―making．

    C．Being a Positive Listener．     D．How to Be an Active Learner．

A student went to college after 41__ all his school examinations. There he put his name down for world geography. 42_ after the first day, he did not go to 43_ any more. The teacher noticed that this student was 44_ absent and thought that he had changed to 45 class. He was very 46_ when he saw the boy's name on the list(名单) of students 47_ wanted to take the geography examination 48_ the end of the year.

The teacher had prepared a difficult examination paper, which covered 49 he had taught, and he was eager to see 50 this student answered the questions. He expected that his answers would be very 51_; but when he examined his paper carefully, he found only one small mistake in them. 52_ this surprised him very much, he went through the paper 53_, but was still not able to find 54 one mistake, so he sent 55 the student to question him about his work after the exam..

When the student had 56 the room, the teacher said to him, “I know that you came to my class only once on the first day and that you have been absent from all the others. Yet I have found only one small mistake in your paper. 57_ is that?”

“Oh, I'm sorry about that mistake, sir, ”answered the student. “After the examination, I realized 58 I ought to have written. I would not have made that mistake 59 I had been confused(弄糊涂) by your 60_ lecture.”

1.                A．having         B．taking          C．passing   D．failing

2.                A．So             B．But            C．However  D．And

3.                A．it             B．lesson          C．college   D．class

4.                A．always         B．once           C．never    D．sometimes

5.                A．another        B．the other       C．other D．others

6.                A．angry          B．happy          C．sorry D．surprised

7.                A．that he         B．he             C．who D．whom

8.                A．by             B．at             C．after D．in

9.                A．everything      B．something       C．anything  D．nothing

10.               A．what           B．when          C．how  D．why

11.               A．good          B．full            C．nice  D．bad

12.               A．For            B．As             C．So   D．Though

13.               A．two times       B．twice          C．once D．again once

14.               A．more than      B．another        C．the other  D．second

15.               A．with           B．to             C．x D．for

16.               A．reached to      B．arrived to       C．arrived into D．come into

17.               A．Why           B．What          C．How  D．Which

18.               A．where         B．why           C．what  D．when

19.               A．unless         B．if             C．because   D．as

20.               A．first           B．last            C．latest D．certain

A student went to college(大学) after 36__ all his school examinations. There he put his name down for world geography, 37_ after the first day, he did not go to 38_ any more. The teacher noticed that this student was 39_ absent (缺课) and thought that he had changed to 40 class. He was very 41_ when he saw the boy's name on the list(名单) of students 42_ wanted to take the geography examination 43_ the end of the year.

The teacher had prepared a difficult examination paper, which covered 44 he had taught, and he was eager(急切) to see 45 this student answered the questions. He expected that his answer would be very 46_; but when he examined his paper carefully, he found only one small mistake in them.47_ this surprised him very much, he went through the paper 48_, but was still not able to find 49 one mistake, so he sent 50 the student to question him about his work..

When the student had 51 the room, the teacher said to him, “I know that you came to my class only once on the first day and that you have been absent from all the others. Yet I have found only one small mistake in your paper. 52_ is that?”

“Oh, I'm sorry about that mistake, sir,”answered the student. “After the examination, I realized 53 I ought to have written. I would not have made that mistake 54 I had not been confused(弄糊涂) by your 55_ lecture.”