My History Teacher

时间:2022-09-16 08:26:58

When I was twelve years old,my family were the first black people to move into an all-white part of Grand Rapids,Michigan.We were not welcome to many of our new neighbors.Some of them said angrily that we should return to where we came from.The children sometimes threw stones at me or drove me home from school.

Most of my teachers simply took no notice of me,but not Miss Bean,my history teacher.Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being treated,but she didn’t say this to me.Miss Bean showed her respect to me by teaching me just like anyone else.Instead of being unnoticed,I was given a chance to show that I was clever.Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me think for myself.She always wanted to know what I thought about difficult questions.Was Thomas Jefferson right to buy Louisiana from France? Why? She expected me to have my own idea.Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for oneself was the real key to education.

One day,when I was not paying attention in class,Miss Bean suddenly threw an eraser at me.The eraser hit me right on the hand and sent my pencil flying.The whole class were very surprised at first,then started laughing.This event became famous in the school and,because it happened to me,the students wanted to get to know me.So that’s the story of how Miss Bean made me her target(靶子) and how I became just another kid in school.

1.Before the writer’s family moved to the new place,________.

A.some other black people were there

B.there were no black people living there

C.the other black people had left the town

D.the people there had already known them

2.Many people treated the writer badly because he was________.

A.a new comer B.not clever

C.a black D.poor

3.Miss Bean was a teacher who was________to the writer.

A.active and warm-hearted B.helpful but boring

C.friendly and helpful D.warm-hearted but careless

4.The underlined words “real key” in Paragraph 2 means “______”.

A.important way B.correct answer

C.free road D.open door

5.The event that happened between the writer and Miss Bean________.

A.broke their relationship

B.made the writer feel worse

C.made the writer a successful man

D.made the writer famous in the school

Key: 1-5 BCCAD

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