第四节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入
对应空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in  26  for 17 years, I had no  27  about my ability to hold their attention and to  28  on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “  29  !”
The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat  30  about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness was over, I quickly  31  my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect --- perhaps  32  their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a sense of achievement.
My students  33  diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually  34  by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today.  35  her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a  36  theme. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical  37  for all the works we will study in class,” I complained. “How  38  they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it  39  became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as  40  of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise     41  questions and provide enough background so that students could  42  their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide  43  information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
44  , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a  45  American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
26. A. the UK            B. the US            C. China          D. Australia
27. A. worry             B. idea              C. doubt             D. experience
28. A. impress                B. put              C. leave             D. fix
29. A. Attention              B. Look out         C. At ease             D. Stand up
30. A. puzzled           B. sure                  C. depressed         D. worried
31. A. found           B. returned         C. regained             D. followed
32. A. more                   B. even               C. yet                 D. still
33. A. passed           B. borrowed         C. kept                D. read
34. A. replaced         B. taken              C. caught         D. moved
35. A. Naturally         B. Perhaps         C. Fortunately        D. Reasonably
36. A. different              B. strong            C. similar        D. usual
37. A. happenings      B. characters        C. development      D. background
38. A. should             B. need               C. will           D. must
39. A. immediately        B. certainly          C. simply                D. gradually
40. A. that                  B. what               C. those            D. ones
41. A. difficult        B. interesting       C. ordinary          D. unusual
42. A. draw            B. get                    C. decide            D. give
43. A. strange           B. standard          C. exact            D. serious
44. A. Therefore             B. However         C. But                 D. Though
45. A. normal                B. happy             C. good            D. better