首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag befo
At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag befo
admin
2009-06-24
76
问题
At dawn one morning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before heading for West Milford High, a rural school in northernmost New Jersey. On his 30-minute commute, the young former investment banker tries to dream up new ways of lifting the monumentally forgettable Mexican War off the textbook page and into his students’ imaginations. Can he invoke the storied memories of Robert E. Lee, who cut his first military exploits on the plains of Veracuz ―or will he be met with thundering responses of "Who’s Lee"? Should he raise James K. Polk out of the mystic chords of memory, and hope, for a nanosecond, that the kids will care about the first U.S. president who stepped aside because he’d accomplished everything he wanted? Let’s think some more. Well, there’s always the Alamo. And hey, isn’t that the teachers’ parking lot up ahead?
It’s never an easy task. These big kids in big jeans and ball caps, come to his history classes believing that history is about as useful as Latin. Most are either unaware or unimpressed that the area’s iron forges once produced artillery cannon for George Washington’s army. Their sense of history orbits more narrowly around last month’s adventures on "ShopRite Strip", the students’ nickname for downtown West Milford, once a factory town, now a Magnet for middle-class vacationers.
Cosgrove looks uncommonly glum as the thumbs through a stack of exams in the teachers’ lounge. "I can’t believe anyone in my class could think John Brown was the governor of Massachusetts", moans Cosgrove, 28, pointing to one student’s test paper. He had to be sleeping for days on end. "The same morning, students in his college bound class could name only one U.S. Supreme Court justice―Clarence Thomas. All his wit, energy and beyond-the-textbook research can’t completely reverse the students’ poor preparation in history, their lack of general knowledge, their numbness to the outside world. It’s the bane of history teachers at every level. When University of Vermont professor James Loewen asked his senior social-science majors who fought in the Vietnam War, 22 percent answered North and South Korea. Don’t these kids even go to the movies?
选项
A、A clerk working in a gym.
B、A man running a bank.
C、A sportsman.
D、A historian.
答案
B
解析
文中提到"...the young former investment banker..."。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/rsTd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
LivingAloneIsJoyfulMoreandmoreAmericansarelivingalone.Somelivealonebecauseofdivorceorthedeathofapartne
UFOsSixtyyearsago,amannamedKennethArnoldsawsomethingthatwecanstill(51)today-somethingthatchangedpopular
TheWhiteHouseWegotupearlythismorningand(1)alongwalkafterbreakfast.Wewalkedthroughthebusinesssectionof
Thesoldierdisplayedremarkablecourageinthebattle.
LifeatAichiUniversityI’mYamamotoMika,a22-year-oldJapanesegirl.I’dliketoinviteyoutoAichi
TunguskaEvent1Ahundredyearsagothisweek,agiganticexplosionripped(撕裂)openthedawnskyaboveaforestinwesternSiber
TightenedVisaRegulationsAccordingtoSouthKorea’snewvisaregulations,nativespeakersofEnglishinSouthKoreawillb
Whatdidthespeakertalkaboutlasttime?
Whatdidthespeakertalkaboutlasttime?
______drewthedailylifeofupperclasses?______depictsscenesofproductionactivitiesandanimalgrazing?
随机试题
A、Turntothecolonialgovernorforhelp.B、Gothroughascholarlyexamination.C、Obtainconsentfromherowner.D、Reviseitan
“本年利润”账户年终结转前的贷方余额表示()
奶牛,6岁,努责时阴门流出红褐色难闻的黏稠液体,其中偶有小骨片。主诉,配种后已确诊怀孕,但已过预产期半月该病例最可能伴发的其他变化是()。
2015年4月6日,甲公司开出一张面值为600000元,期限为2个月不带息银行承兑汇票,用于采购材料。甲公司已向银行支付承兑手续费100元。2015年6月6日,甲公司无力支付票款,其会计处理正确的是()。
使用寿命确定的无形资产的摊销应计入管理费用。()
20世纪60年代,西方教育心理学比较注重__________,注重为学校教育服务。
积极履行公务,就是文明礼貌,热情耐心,认真受理群众的报警和求助,不推诿搪塞,不敷衍了事。( )
设f(2)=1/2,f’(2)=0,∫02f(x)dx=1,求∫01x2f"(2x)dx.
下列不属于计算机内部采用二进制的好处的一项是______。
WhatkindofnewspaperistheCommunityNews?
最新回复
(
0
)