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“Sixteen,” I said.I have forgotten the math question my second-grade teacher, Joyce Cooper asked that day, but I will never forget my 1 .As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class started 2 .I felt like the silliest person in the world.
Mrs Cooper fixed them with a firm(严格的)look.Then she said:“We're all here to 3 .”
Another time, Mrs Cooper asked us to write a 4 about what we hoped to do with our lives.I wrote:“I want to be a 5 like Mrs Cooper.”
She wrote on my report, “You would make an outstanding(杰出的)teacher 6 you are determined(坚定的)and you try hard.” I was to carry those 7 in my heart for the next 27 years.
After I graduated from high school, I got married and had children.
We needed every penny just to get by.College-and teaching-was out of the question.
Then one day I thought of my 8 of how I wanted to help children.I talked it over with my family and 9 to attend college classes in the mornings before work.And when I got home from work, I would 10 .Finally after seven years, my dream had been realized and I became a teacher.
Not long after I started 11 , something happened that brought the 12 rushing back to me.I had written a sentence with grammatical(语法的)mistakes on the blackboard.Then I asked students to come and 13 the mistakes.
One girl got halfway through, became confused(迷乱的)and stopped.As the other children laughed, 14 rolled down her face.I gave her a hug and told her to get a drink of water.Then, remembering Mrs Cooper, I fixed 15 of the class with a firm look.“We're all here to learn,” I said.
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