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One day after more than a month of classes, I read aloud a paragraph from my book, recognizing all o...
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One day after more than a month of classes, I read aloud a paragraph from my book, recognizing all of the characters smoothly except for one. I sat back and started to register the achievement: I was actually reading Chinese. The language was starting to make sense. But before the sense of satisfaction was half formed, Teacher Liao said, “Budui!”
It meant, literally, “Not correct.” You could also translate it as no, wrong, nope, uh-uh. Flatly and clearly incorrect. There were many Chinese words that I didn’t know, but I knew that one well.
A voice in my head whined: All of the rest of them were right; isn’t that worth something? But for Teacher Liao it didn’t work like that. If one character was wrong it was simply budui.
“What’s this word?” I asked, pointing at the character I had missed.
“Zhe — the zhe in Zhejiang.”
“Third tone?”
“Fourth tone.”
I breathed deeply and read the section again, and this time I did it perfectly. That was a victory — I turned to Teacher Liao and my eyes said (or at least I imagined them saying): How do you like me now? There seemed to be some satisfaction in her eyes, but she simply said, “Read the next one.”
It was her way of teaching. Success was expected and failure criticized and immediately corrected. You were right or you were budui; there was no middle ground.
I grew to hate budui. The bu was a rising tone and the dui dropped abruptly, like building my confidence and then breaking down all at once. And it bothered me all the more because I knew that Teacher Liao was only telling the truth: everything I did with the language was budui. I was an adult, and as an adult I should be able to accept criticism where it was needed. But that wasn’t the American way; I wanted to be praised for my effort; I didn’t mind criticism as long as it was candy-coated. In China, the single B on the report card matters much more than all the As that surround it. Keep working; you haven’t achieved anything yet.
And so I studied. I was frustrated but I was also stubborn; I was determined to show Teacher Liao that I was dui.
1.Which of the following can best replace “whined” in Paragraph 3?
A.burst out. B.gave in.
C.returned. D.complained.
2.What did the writer expect from Teacher Liao after he tried again?
A.Immediate correction. B.A new challenge.
C.An encouraging response. D.A strict comment.
3.How did the writer feel about the Chinese way of teaching?
A.Candy-coated. B.Weakness-focused.
C.Interest-driven. D.Criticism-absent.
4.What can we infer from the text?
A.The writer was struggling with Liao’s teaching.
B.The American way of teaching is better for adults.
C.The writer was not gifted in language learning.
D.Teacher Liao was not friendly with her students.
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