In 1972, I returned to Miami Beach High School to speak to the drama class. Afterward I asked the drama teacher any of my English teachers are still there. Irene Roberts, he tells me, is in the class down the hall.
I was no one special in Miss Roberts’ class — just another student who did okay work. I don’t recall any one special bit of wisdom she passed on. Yet I cannot forget her for language, for ideas and for her students. I now, many years later, that she is the perfect example of a teacher. I’d like to say something to her, I say, but I don’t want to her from a class. Nonsense, he says, she’ll be to see you.
The drama teacher Miss Roberts into the hallway where stands this 32-year-old man she last saw at 18. “I’m Mark Medoff,” I tell her. “You were my 12th-grade English teacher in 1958.” She her head to one side and looks at me, as if this angle might remember me in her . And then, though armed with a message I want to in many words, I can’t think up anything more memorable than this: “I want you to know,” I say, “you were to me.”
And there in the hallway, this lovely woman, now nearing age, this teacher who doesn’t remember me, begins to weep; and she encircles me in her arms.
this moment, I begin to sense that everything I will ever know, everything I will ever pass to my students, is an inseparable part of a legacy(遗产) of our ancestors.
Irene Roberts holds me in her arms and through her tears whispers my cheek, “Thank you.” And then, with the briefest of looks into my forgotten face, she back into her classroom, to what she has done thousands of days through all the years of my .
On reflection, maybe those were, , just the right words to say to Irene Roberts. Maybe they are the very words I would like to speak to all those teachers through my life, the very words I would like spoken to me one day by some returning student: “I want you to know you were important to me.”
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小题2:A．justB．almostC．nearlyD．about
小题3:A．kindnessB．respectC．friendshipD．love
小题4:A．knowB．learnC．realizeD．believe
小题5:A．selfishB．self-confidentC．self-consciousD．selfless
小题6:A．callB．dragC．pushD．pull
小题7:A．upsetB．delightedC．interestedD．annoyed
小题8:A．bringsB．takesC．fetchesD．introduces
小题9:A．bowsB．raisesC．risesD．puts
小题10:A．thoughtB．brainC．attentionD．memory
小题11:A．announceB．speakC．deliverD．tell
小题12:A．usefulB．importantC．hopefulD．beneficial
小题13:A．retirementB．enjoymentC．employmentD．happiness
小题14:A．RemindingB．ExplainingC．RememberingD．Forgetting
小题15:A．happilyB．straightC．calmlyD．briefly
小题16:A．againstB．withC．offD．beyond
小题17:A．escapesB．gathersC．disappearsD．fails
小题18:A．longsB．continuesC．goesD．returns
小题19:A．absenceB．classC．workD．task
小题20:A．or ratherB．in additionC．as usualD．after all
