As a teacher now, I know that excellence as a teacher is as much 30 through humility as confidence, that what really changes a child is
not a teaching strategy but a deep belief in his/her 31 . I was humbled
and honored by the effort of one child I taught this year. She was close to the
32 of the senior class. In my class, however, she had 33 and
produced some superior work. Even though she was on her senior project
and did not need to finish the class, she finished her final project. The last
week of school, her parents came into my classroom to hear her thesis
defense, and they were in tears. They kept saying, “We don’t know what you
have done, but it has made all the 34 for the first time she loves an
academic subject.” I am humbled to say it was not because I am a great
historian, or 35 the most stimulating curriculum, or used wonderful
teaching strategies; no, it was simply because I believed in their daughter the
way a parent does. I believed in her potential the same way that my great
teachers have believed in me.
【題組】33. (A) panicked (B) blossomed (C) bragged (D) bypassed