[音频]But at 2 a.m., I was1_____ them all: Homer, Virgil, Herodotus and Plato. Their words were dull and the 2______ difficult to follow. The professors here do not teach in the same way that teachers in China do. Studying 3______ in China means memorizing all the “correct,” standard 4______ given during lectures. Here, professors ask 5_____ questions and let the students argue, research and write papers 6_________. At Yale, I often waited for the end-of-class “correct” answers, which never came.
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[音频]Learning humanities was secure 1______ in China, but it was shaky 2 ______ here. And it could be even 3______ for me. The name Agamemnon was impossibly long to pronounce, and as a result I didn’t 4_______ it when we were discussing him in the 5_______. I had written my first English essay ever just a year earlier, when 6_______ colleges, and now came the papers 7_______ the canons. And I simply didn’t write in English fast enough to 8______ in classes.
[音频]On one of those weekend nights, I wrote a paper on Aeneas, the protagonist of The Aeneid, who 1_________ found Rome but 2______ to leave behind his native Troy. “Aeneas agonizes,” I wrote. “He 3______. 4_________ call him to stick to the past, while at the same time, he feels 5______ to obey his father’s instructions for the future. His present life is split, 6_______ by the 7_____ days and by the days 8______.” I saw myself in what I wrote.
中国精神作为兴国强国之魂,是实现中华民族伟大复兴不可或缺的( )和( )。
中华民族崇尚精神的优秀传统,具体体现在()。
A. 对物质生活与精神生活相互关系的独到理解上
B. 对理想的不懈追求上
C. 对道德修养和道德教化的重视上
D. 对理想人格的推崇上