C.

A teacher from a Western country has recently visited an elementary school in an Eastern country. In one class, she watched sixty young children  as they learned to draw a cat. The teacher drew a big O on the blackboard, and the sixty students copied it on their paper. The teacher drew a smaller O on the top of the first O and then  put two  on top of it. The children drew in the same way. The lesson went on until there were sixty-one similar cats in the classroom. Each student’s cat looked exactly like the one on the board.

The visiting teacher watched the lesson and was greatly surprised because the teaching methods were very different from that in her own country. A children’s art lesson in her own country produced a roomful of pictures, and each is quite different from others. Why? What makes this difference? In a classroom in any country, a teacher teaches not only knowledge of history or language.

In some countries such as the United States and Canada etc, people think highly of individualism----the differences between people. The teachers think it very important to make each student different from others. Educational systems in these countries don’t ask students to memorize dull information. Instead, students are asked to work by themselves and find answers themselves. The students are helped to learn to have their own ideas even at an early age.

But in countries such as China and Japan, the two peoples have similar history and culture. Perhaps because of this, people think highly of group goals rather than individualism. Students in China and Japan often work together and help each other in the classroom, The teachers teach and the students listen. The students are asked to memorize a lot. They have to learn the same textbook. They do the same homework and give the same answers.

46. Why was the visiting teacher surprised when she watched the art lesson ?

A. Because it was her first time to watch an art class in an Eastern country.

B.  Because she found there were so many children in one class.

C.  Because she had never seen such a beautiful cat as the teacher drew before .

D.  Because she found all the cats the students drew looked the same .

47. The underlined word “ methods ” means _________.

A. ways    B. textbooks     C. reasons.     D.  instructions.

48.The visiting teacher was greatly surprised by ______ in the elementary school.

A. the teacher's drawing B. the teaching method

C. the sixty-one cats D. the big class

49.The writer of this passage thinks that ______ .

A. the teaching method can change the educational systems

B. a teacher should teach something more than the subject

C. American students should be asked to memorize more useful information

D. It would be better for students in Canada and American to learn the same textbook

50. In the United States ______ .

A. teachers have to teach different students

B. students are asked to memorize the useful information

C. teachers think highly of both individualism and group goals

D. students are encouraged to learn more by themselves  .