Saturday, July 23, 2011
Read the passage & answer the questions?
It wasn't only us students who had a good time at miss cecilia's expense; everybody did. Miss cecilia was our biology teacher. She was grim and strait-jacketed in her judgement and wicked as well. She insisted that we call her 'miss' plus her first name because she had been impressed with how maidservants in Jane Austen's play called their social betters by that combination. When we discovered that miss cecilia's contact with english literature did not extend beyond mansfield park, our saucy class prefect declared that miss cecilia was the living proof of pope's 'A little learning is a dangerous thing.' the rest of the school was extremely thrilled that miss cecilia considered all of us to be socially handicapped. But then, to be fair to the lady, academically...the lot. To miss cecilia, a good girl woke up daily with the rising bell, said her morning prayers, brushed her teeth, and sat bolt upright at the edge of her bed to learn by rote, ten sentences of the biology text book. The idea was that by the end of the leap year, miss cecilia's good girl would be able to recite 3,650 sentences in the book without so much as a pause for breath. Miss cecilia could not forgive the bad girl who would not keep to this fool-proof road to academic brilliance. But then, miss cecilia could not forgive a lot of student crimes- like leaving our i's undotted and our t's uncrossed in our homework; like when she passed and we caricatured her in our art classes. We often wondered if her inability to forgive would have made catherine the great change the gender in her observation that the more a man knows, the more he forgives. (a) for each of the following words, find another word or phrase that means thesame as it is used in the passage: 1 strait-jacketed 2 saucy 3 thrilled 4 fool-proof. 5 how did miss cecilia see her position in relation to her students? 6 change the gender in catheri
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