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第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，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 (文学) class. Having taught in  36  for 17 years, I had no  _37_ about my ability to hold their attention and to __38__ on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “  39！” The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was a bit  40   about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness （尴尬）was over, I quickly regain _41_ and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect ---perhaps  42  their admiration. I went back to my office with great happiness which came from a sense of achievement.
My students _43_  diaries. However, as I read them, the happy mood (情绪) was gradually   _44  by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. _45  her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a _46  theme（主题）. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire framework (结构) of Western thought and laid the historical  47  for all the works we’ll study in class,” I complained. “_48__ should they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it  49  became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as  50  of my students. I thought a teachers’ job was to raise  51  questions and provide enough background _52__ students could draw their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact information as _53_ and clearly as possible. What a difference! 
_54 , I also learnt a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students made me a  55_  American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
36. A. the UK                B. the US              C. China          D. Australia
37. A. worry                 B. idea        C. doubt       D. experience
38. A. impress            B. put                 C. leave          D. fix
39. A. Attention                 B. Look out              C. At ease      D. Stand up
40. A. puzzled                B. sure                C. curious        D. worried
41. A. sadness         B. attention              C. calmness      D. happiness
42. A. more                  B. even            C. yet          D. still
43. A. passed             B. borrowed              C. kept        D. read
44. A. replaced                B. taken               C. caught       D. moved
45. A. Naturally                 B. Perhaps             C. Fortunately   D. Reasonably
46. A. different              B. same                    C. similar       D. usual
47. A. happenings          B. characters             C. development D. background
48. A. How                    B. What               C. When       D. Where
49. A. immediately         B. certainly        C. simply        D. gradually
50. A. that                    B. what                C. those         D. ones
51. A. difficult                  B. interesting             C. ordinary         D. unusual
52. A. so that             B. so as to           C. such that    D. in case
53. A. slowly               B. carefully        C. directly      D. quickly
54. A. Therefore          B. However        C. Besides        D. Though
55. A. normal            B. happy               C. good           D. better