题型:阅读选择 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
广东省东莞市中堂星辰学校2016-2017学年八年级下学期英语期中检测试卷
Every teacher probably asks himself time and again: What are the reasons for choosing teaching as a career? Do the rewards of teaching outweigh the trying comments? Answering these questions is not a simple task. Let's see what the author says.
Why do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn't want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a "step up" toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.
Certainly I don't teach because teaching is easy for me. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living.
I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change the more important, my students change.
I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I'm my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook, who is to say I can't? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures.
I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions.
Besides, teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning.
Last, teaching offers love. Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher's life and begins to breathe. Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better.
These are the real reasons I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay (黏土) begins to breathe.
I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them.
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Mount Huangshan Location: in the south of Anhui Famous for: the guest-greeting pine tree, strange stones, sea of clouds and amazing hot springs. Rich in: natural resources and various species, for which it has been listed as a World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site. Best time to visit: Spring and summer. | |
Yungang Grottoes(石窟) Location: in the south Datong, Shanxi Reasons to visit: Listed among top 4 grottoes in China, one of World Heritage Sites, it is said to be the best protected Buddhist cave art in China with 53 caves with over 51, 000 stone carvings of Buddha and Buddhist dating from the 5th and 6th centuries. Best time to visit: summer and autumn. | |
Suzhou Classical Gardens Location: in the downtown area of Suzhou, Jiangsu Reasons to visit: Listed as a World Heritage Site in 1997, the gardens of Suzhou represent the Development Chinese landscape garden design over more than 2000 years. Best time to visit: all year round. |
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