广西省中考英语精选试题及答案(4)

　　Ⅳ、阅读理解

　　A

　　B

　　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 I 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 no 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 information 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.

　　C

　　A man who couldn’t achieve his dream came to a wise man to ask for some advice.

　　The wise man thought for a while, silently scooped up(舀取) the water and asked, “What is the shape of water?” The wise man poured the water into the glass before he could answer. The man took a tumble, “I know, water is like a glass shape.” The wise man said nothing and poured the water into the vase nearby. The man realized it, “I know, water is like a vase.” The wise man shook his head, gently carried the vase in both hands and poured the water into the pot filled with sand. The clear water disappeared into the sand.

　　The man was lost in thought.

　　The wise man bent down to grasp (抓) a handful of sand and said, “Look, the water died away like this. This is a lifetime!”

　　The man said happily, “I know, you tell me the society is like various containers(容器) everywhere, so man should be like water. When you are in a certain container, you will become its shape and easily die in regular container, just like the water, disappearing rapidly and suddenly, and nothing can change!”

　　“Yes,” then the wise man added, “No!” The wise man went out of the house while the man followed.

　　Under the eaves(屋檐), the wise man bent over, touched the stone steps for a while and stopped. The man reached out his hand to where the wise man had just touched and saw a hole, but he didn’t know what secret the hole on the stone step hid.

　　The wise man said, “In rainy days, the rain water would fall from the eaves, so the hole is the result the water falls.”

　　Life is like water, so we must not only make every effort to fit the situations, but also we should try to change the situations to realize our own value.