初中生课外阅读短文推荐:Not a Good Principal
编者按：阅读在英语教学中是一个很重要的教学环节。以下这一篇英语小短文非常适合初中生阅读，欢迎阅读学习!
有这样一群孩子，他们仿佛永远生活在自己的世界中。这要求老师更加细心，教学方式要更加体贴，用热爱与责任不失时机地肯定、鼓励、赞扬。所以，特殊教育工作者更需要来自背后的支持。
Not a Good Principal
(并不是个好校长)
Tina was going back to school for her third master’s degree.
蒂娜回到学校获得她第三个硕士学位。
She was a Special Education teacher, but she couldn’t take her job anymore, so she had quit.
她是一名特殊教育老师，但她不能再工作了，所以她已经离开(学校)了。
The kids were out of control.
孩子们失去控制。
There were too many of them in one classroom for her to manage effectively.
在一个教室里有太多的孩子，以至于她不能进行有效地管理。
The school administration ignored her pleas to add teacher assistants.
学校行政部门无视她请求增加老师的申请。
They ignored her complaints that some of the kids were simply little monsters.
他们忽视了她的抱怨，一些孩子是小怪物。
They were discipline problems that other teachers had shunted off to Special Education.
他们是因为纪律问题被其他教师分流到特殊教育的。
The administration didn’t even respond to her complaint that one oversized young student had pushed her down one day onto the floor.
一个体型超大的年轻学生把她推倒在地上，政府甚至没有回应她的投诉
Tina wanted to call the police, but the school principal talked her out of it with promises to improve things.
蒂娜想报警，但是校长和她交谈，并承诺会改善现状。
Two weeks later, not one promise had been fulfilled.
两周过去了，没有一个承诺实现了
Tina angrily visited the principal, who told her that if she didn’t have the patience to wait for things to improve, maybe she wasn’t cut out to be a teacher.
蒂娜愤怒地询问了校长，校长告诉她，如果她不耐心等待事情得到改善，也许她将没有机会成为老师。
“How dare you! The issue is not whether I’m cut out to be a teacher,” she angrily replied.
“你怎么敢!问题不在于我不能继续当老师，“她愤怒地回答。
“I am a teacher, and a damn good one.
“我是一个老师，一个很好的老师。
But no teacher can get along forever with inadequate supplies, with overcrowded classrooms, with students who are dumped into her class, and with students who attack her.
但没有一个老师可以忍受人手永远得不到足够的供应，过度拥挤的教室，在课堂被攻击的学生倒在地上
And especially,” she growled, “with idiots like you in charge who continually ignore the needs of Special Education students and teachers.”
“最关键的是”，她咆哮着，“还有像你这样的白痴，不断忽视特殊教育学生和老师的需求。”
相关句型辨识
Tina was going back to school for her third master’s degree.
蒂娜回到学校获得她第三个硕士学位。
这句话用到了序数词third，我们一起来复习一下基数词变序数词的变化规律口诀：
基变序，有规律，词尾加上-th。
一，二，三，特殊记，词尾字母t，d，d。
八去t，九除e，ve要用f替，ty将y变成i，th前面有个e。
若是碰到几十几，前用基来后用序。
注意一般情况下序数词前面要加冠词the，但是碰到如本句一样有形容词性物主代词在前面就不用要冠词the
例如：This is my tenth birthday. 这是我的第十个生日。
知识讲解老师：Linda
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