单项选择题

A teacher from a Western country recently visited an elementary school in Asia. In one class, she watched sixty children (16) they learned to draw a cal. The teacher first drew a big circle on the blackboard, and the children copied it (17) sheets of paper. The teacher drew a smaller circle over the first one and then put two triangles(三角形) at each side. The children drew (18) the same way. The lesson continued until there were sixty-one (19) cats in the classroom. Each student’s cat looked exactly like (20) on the board.
The visitor watched the lesson and was (21) . The teaching methods were very different from those in her country. A (n) (22) lesson for children there would produce a roomful of (23) pictures, each completely different from the others. What (24) this difference An educational system is a mirror that (25) the culture of the society. In any country, a teacher teaches (26) 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 (27) . People there highly (28) individualism. Teachers attach (29) to the qualities that make each student special. Students do not memorize information. (30) , they work individually and find answers themselves. At an early age, they learn to form their own ideas and opinions.

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