完形填空Hou Changliang,36, was a volunteer teacher from Hunan. In 2011, after graduating from college, Hou 1 a government-funded volunteer program. He then taught in rural (农村的) schools in Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan for 12 years.
From 2018, Hou started to share pictures of his everyday life 2 people on the video-sharing platform Douyin. The videos have 3 more than 7. 3 million likes. Recently, his story has become well-known all over the country. What's the 4 thing to help develop rural education? With first-hand experience, Hou would say it's not buying new books or desks, 5 a change of mindset (思维模式).
For example, for two years, he had to fight the drop-out rate (辍学率) of his students in Guangxi. Local people often didn't pay much attention to their children's education, 6 the education of girls. Once he had to spend hours persuading (说服) a girl's father to let 7 finish nine years of free compulsory (义务的)education.
Hou also 8 rural students to understand and love their hometown so that they would care about its future and development.
He could feel his students'9 in city life. They once asked him what amusement parks and subways were. He then realized that textbooks usually focus on city life but 10 include rural life."If rural students admire the city life described in 11 , they may just want to go away from home,"he said.
So he sometimes 12 rural life into his teaching. He also turned farming work, 13 collecting bamboo shoots into topics for writing tasks and math problems. He wanted the young people to feel proud of their 14 .
"They(rural students) need to leave the mountains and see a 15 world, but they are also the hope of rural areas," said Hou. He sincerely hopes that rural students can change their lives.