the money. Once a former computer science student of mine called me, asking me if I wanted to have a change.2.________ His salary was higher than my current (当前的) one, though I have more education and have worked for over a decade. With my programming skills, he said he could get me hired.3.________
A few days before this current graduation, while working on final grades, I found a note a student had slipped in with her homework. She thanked me for being her teacher and said the things she had learned in my class - not about math, but about life - would be things she would remember long after the math skills had faded away.4.________
Now, on this sunny graduation day, as I again observed the sea of blue hats and gowns, I did so with renewed dedication (奉献) and a deeper sense of satisfaction. 5.________
A.I will always be grateful that I am a teacher.
B.Because the students you have gotten to know have to leave.
C.I was very glad I would work with my students.
D.I thanked him, but declined his kind offer.
E.As I finished reading, I remembered why I had become a teacher.
F.He was working at Nintendo Corporation.
G.I would never be a teacher if I had a chance.
Ⅲ.完形填空
If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain.
Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to __1__."What are you doing?" asked one of the visitors."We plan to dig a hole all the way through the __2__!" one of the brothers volunteered __3__.
The older boys began to __4__, telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was__5__.After a long silence, one of the __6__ picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and many other kinds of insects. He __7__ the lid and showed the wonderful __8__ to the scoffing (嘲笑的) visitors. Then he said quietly and __9__,"Even if we don't dig all the way through the earth, look at what we have found __10__ the way!"
Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is __11__ a goal is for - to cause us to move in the __12__ we have chosen, in other words, to keep us __13__! But not every goal will be fully __14__. Not every job will end __15__. Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be __16__. But when you fall __17__ of your aim, perhaps you can say, "Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things __18__ my life because I tried to do something!" It is in the digging __19__ life is lived. And I believe it is the joy in the journey, in the end, that truly __20__.
1.A.watch B.work
C.rest D.laugh
2.A.house B.road
C.wall D.earth
3.A.calmly B.excitedly
C.patiently D.impatiently
4.A.stare B.think
C.laugh D.smile
5.A.important B.impossible
C.difficult D.interesting
6.A.diggers B.watchers
C.visitors D.passersby
7.A.moved B.pushed
C.broke D.removed
8.A.jars B.scenes
C.pictures D.contents
9.A.properly B.happily
C.carefully D.confidently