It was a mid-August evening. Some children filled a big yard in a small village in Tongzi, Guizhou. An old man with gray hair wrote several beautiful English words on the blackboard and asked the children to read. As he listened, a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.
The old man with gray hair is Liu Xiaosheng. He used to be a foreign language teacher at a university in Chongqing. In 2012, he came to Shuijing Village in Guizhou for summer vacation. One evening, he saw a neighbor’s child learning English. He found that the child had poor pronunciation. As a teacher, he felt the need to do something, so he began to teach the child for free.
In this way, Liu had his first student. Gradually, news of free English learning spread through the village, and more children came. At first, Liu taught in his living room and then moved into the corridor (走廊) for more space. But soon, the corridor was full of students, and Liu turned to using one villager’s rice milling (碾米) room as a classroom. The other villagers also raised money to buy desks, chairs, and a blackboard. Later, as the number of students grew, Liu finally set up a classroom in the yard of a villager’s house.
Every summer, Liu comes to the village to teach English. He has been doing it for ten years. The villagers like him and call him the “yard teacher”. Liu also loves his life and work in the village. “Teaching is an important part of my life. I am willing to help these children improve themselves step by step,” he said.
【小题1】While the children were reading the English words he wrote, Liu Xiaosheng felt .| A．excited | B．confident | C．satisfied |
| A．He teaches the children without receiving money. |
| B．He wants to help the children with their science. |
| C．He has been teaching the children for five years. |
| A．3. | B．4. | C．5. |
| A．The “Yard Teacher” |
| B．The Hard-working Children |
| C．The Life in Shuijing Village |
