A teacher from a Western country recently visited an elementary school in Asia. In one class, she watched sixty children 1______ they learned to draw a cat. The teacher first drew a big circle on the blackboard, and the children copied it 2______ sheets of paper. The leacher drew a smaller circle over the first one and then put two triangles(三角形)at each side. The children drew 3______ the same way. The lesson continued until there were sixty-one 4______ cats in the classroom. Each student's cat looked exactly like 5______ on the board.
The visitor watched the lesson and was 6______. The teaching methods were very different from those in her country. A(n) 7______ lesson for children there would produce a roomful of 8______ pictures, each completely different from the others. What 9______ this difference? An educational system is a mirror that 10______ the culture of the society. In any country, a teacher teaches 11______ art or history or language. He or she also teaches culture.
In countries such as the United States and Canada, there exist great national, religious, and cultural 12______, People there highly 13______ individualism. Teachers attach 14______ to the qualities that make each student special. Students do not memorize information. 15______，they work individually and find answers themselves. At an early age, they learn to form their own ideas and opinions.
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A.as
B.because
C.then
D.who
正确答案是A