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Do you remember the name of your kindergarten teacher?I do.Her name was Mrs White.
I don't remember much about what we learned in her class,but my mother once told me
that we
used to write a lot.And I would bring back what I wrote and she would look at it and find
there were so many mistakes,but no red corrections,and always a star.Sometimes even a
Good!This worried my mother,so one day when she went to meet Mrs White for one of
those ParentTeacher meetings,she asked her why she never redpenciled my mistakes in the
right spellings of words or pointed out grammatical errors.
"The children are just beginning to get excited about using words,or forming sentences.
I don't want to damage that enthusiasm with red ink.Spelling and grammar can wait.The
wonder of words won't." Mrs White said.
Later I knew that if Mrs White had used her red pen often I probably wouldn't be telling
you about this now.I look back now and think she must have been a rather extraordinary
teacher to exercise such redpenrestraint (限制)．I used to misspell "beautiful" a lot,and never
could quite remember that the "e" went before the "a"．It annoyed my teacher in high school.
If I was going to employ the word with such lavishness (华丽丰富的语言) she figured the
least I could do was spell it right.Eventually the e's and a's settled into their right hold as much
as you mean sometimes.
And thanks to Mrs White,I had no worry about writing what I meant even if I couldn't quite
spell it out.Because life isn't "Pretty"．It's "Baeutiful"．
1．The underlined word "This" in the second paragraph refers to the fact that________.
A．I always made mistakes in my spelling
B．Mrs White often made wrong corrections
C．Mrs White's attitude towards my mistakes was special
D．mother wanted to know how to improve my spellings
2．From what Mrs White said we can infer that________.
A．grammar and spelling should be paid more attention to
B．children don't have the patience in spelling words
C．children's interest of learning words is very important
D．red corrections are used to draw children's attention
3．From the passage we can know that the writer believes________.
A．one should help children spell correct words
B．active learning is better than just to listen to a teacher's instructions
C．children should know how to use simple words to express themselves
D．using words to express is more important than just correcting spelling
4．The writer may probably think his/her
high school teacher________.
A．taught in the same way as Mrs White had done
B．was not satisfied with his/her mistakes made in spelling
C．should tell him/her how to improve words spelling
D．paid much attention to teach students to use proper words
