My English Teacher
Our English teacher Mrs. Zhang is an ordinary-looking, grey-haired woman wearing a pair of glasses. She is about fifty-five years of age. She looks rather thin.
After the preliminary test① of English, we began to complain in our dormitory. She was too strict with us, we thought. On that day, she seemed very disappointed and announced the names of the students who had failed in the test. Most of them felt humiliated② and depressed③.
Every other day, when Mrs. Zhang gives the lessons, we are so nervous! She is a person of impatient personality. We are often made to stand up to repeat the long sentences she reads only once or twice. Usually we missed some words or even forgot the whole sentence, so there would be nothing left we could do but stand there unable to say anything. We said to ourselves, “Gash!④ We have never expected that teachers in university would be stricter than those in high school!” How unfortunate we were!