2009年高考英语完形填空（十七）

　　A newly trained teacher named Mary went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __1__ the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from   2   homework.

　　They would stand there, silently,  3   to complete the task. Mary couldn't figure it out.   4   she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she   5   hadn't seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.

　　What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can't do the  6  ? Mary would wonder. No,  7  couldn't be that. Finally she   8   the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a   9   lesson from her young   10   pupils about self-image and a(n)   11   of self-worth.

　　It seemed that the students  12  each other's individuality and knew that  13  of them were capable of doing the problems.   14  at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would  15  if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the  16  . So they   17   to compete with each other in public.

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