阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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 to impress 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 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.
36. A. England B. America C. China D. Australia
37. A. worry B. idea C. doubt D. skill
38. A. profession B. admiration C. explanation D. expression
39. A. attracted B. embarrassed C. amused D. shocked
40. A. puzzled B. sure C. worried D. curious
41. A. reminded B. returned C. regained D. recovered
42. A. more B. even C. yet D. still
43. A. discussions B. notes C. compositions D. diaries
44. A. replaced B. frightened C. troubled D. moved
45. A. Later B. Perhaps C. Somehow D. Indeed
46. A. common B. strong C. similar D. strange
47. A. happenings B. characters C. development D. background
48. A. should B. need C. will D. must
49. A. immediately B. certainly C. simply D. gradually
50. A. admiration B. question C. education D. conclusion
51. A. difficult B. interesting C. essential D. general
52. A. draw B. find C. search D. offer
53. A. special B. standard C. exact D. serious
54. A. Therefore B. However C. Then D. Though
55. A. richer B. happier C. friendlier D. better
第三部分 阅读理解(共两节，40分)
第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had ―seven fathers,‖ because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university‘s Writers‘ Workshop, however, she felt lonely―a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her ―creative voice.‖
―It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn‘t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That‘s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn‘t write about.‖
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then,
Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children‘s book, and a short-story collection.
56. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?