完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上涂黑。
A newly trained teacher named Molly went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __36__ the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from 37 homework.
They would stand there, silently, 38 to complete the task. Molly couldn’t figure it out.
39 she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she 40 hadn’t seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.
What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can’t do the 41 ? Molly would wonder. No, 42 couldn’t be that. Finally she 43 the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a 44 lesson from her young 45 pupils about self-image and a(n) 46 of self-worth.
It seemed that the students 47 each other’s individuality and knew that 48 of them were capable of doing the problems. 49 at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would 50 if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the 51 . So they 52 to compete with each other in public.
Once she understood, Molly changed the system 53 she could check each child’s math problem individually, but not at any child’s expense 54 his classmates. They all wanted to learn,55 not at someone else’s expense.
36.A.go to B.come to C.get close to D.bring
37.A.his B.their C.his own D.her
38.A.happy B.willingly C.readily D.unwilling
39.A.Anything B.Nothing C.Everything D.Neither
40.A.almost B.certainly C.hardly D.never
41.A.question B.chalkboardC.problem D.homework
42.A.they B.it C.Everything D.each
43.A.asked B.questioned C.told D.understood
44.A.outstanding B.surprising C.annoying D.frightening
45.A.sunburned B.tender C.Indian D.naughty
46.A.sense B.image C.way D.aspect
47.A.had B.ignored C.respected D.cared
48.A.none B.no one C.each D.not all
49.A.Especially B.Even though C.Even so D.Even
50.A.lose B.win C.achieve D.answer
51.A.time B.situation C.chalkboard D.condition
52.A.refused B.rejected C.tried D.promised
53.A.if B.so that C.unless D.in case
54.A.in favour of B.of C.by means of D.in front of
55.A.and B.but C.so D.or