An Excellent Speech Barditch
High School decided to have an All School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the
event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate
Park. Several former teachers were on hand to tell stories about the old days.
Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for over fifty years, was wheeled to the
Park. Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声)when
Ms. Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming
up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from
an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder
than all the other teachers combined. Then Ms. Yates started to
speak: "I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t
seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and
enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large
collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared
in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the
births of your children, in my imagination." Ms. Yates paused
and started crying a hit. Then she continued: "It was my belief
that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me
and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that
you have all been successful in your chosen path." "There is no
greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years
of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I
want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart."
There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started
clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊).
Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying
openly with no shame all he cause of the words from a long forgotten English
teacher from their hometown. What can-be inferred from Paragraph 2______
A. Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech.
B. Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching.
C. Some people got tired from the reunion activities.
D. Most people had little interest in the reunion.