第三节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
【阅读】阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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 the US for 17 years, I had no _21_ about my ability to hold their attention and to _22_ on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “_23_ !” and the entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat _24_ about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness(尴尬)was over, I quickly _25_ my calmness and began what I thought was a fact – packed lecture, sure to gain their respect – perhaps 26 their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a (n) _27 of achievements.
My students _28 diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually _29_ by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. _30_ her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a _31_ subject. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework(哲学体系)of Western thought and laid the historical _32_for all the works we’ll study in class.” I complained. “How _33_ they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it _34_ became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as _35_ of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise _36_ questions and provide enough background so that students could _37_ their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide _38_ information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
_39 , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a _40 American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
21. A. worry B. idea C. doubt D. experience
22. A. impress B. put C. leave D. fix
23. A. Attention B. Look out C. At ease D. Stand up
24. A. puzzled B. sure C. curious D. worried
25. A.found B. returned C. regained D. followed
26. A. more B. even C. yet D. still
27. A. thought B. sense C. feeling D. idea
28. A. wrote B. borrowed C. kept D. read
29. A. replaced B. taken C. caught D. moved
30. A. Naturally B. Perhaps C. Fortunately D. Reasonably
31. A. different B. same C. similar D. usual
32. A. happenings B. characters C. development D. background
33. A. should B. can C. will D. must
34. A. immediately B. certainly C. simply D. gradually
35. A. that B. what C. those D. ones
36. A. difficult B. interesting C. ordinary D. unusual
37. A. draw B. get C. decide D. give
38. A. strange B. standard C. exact D. serious
39. A. Therefore B. However C. Besides D. Though
40. A. normal B. happy C. good D. better