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中考真题2025年四川省南充市阅读理解B-教育家伊莎贝尔生平
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In 2019, a white-haired senior was awarded the Friendship Medal, the highest order of honor of China for foreigners. It was Isabel Crook. In her over a century of life, she spent more than 90 years in China and educated a large number of foreign language students for China.
In 1915, Isabel was born to a Canadian family in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1938, Isabel couldn’t wait to return to China. In 1947, she started to study the ongoing land reform (改革). A year later, she finished the study and accepted the invitation to stay in China for language teaching. From then on, Isabel started the journey of education in China.
One could hardly imagine the teaching conditions during a war. Isabel tried every way for mobile teaching. She asked her students to take small chairs so that she could give classes all over the places. She made different teaching methods to suit students’ different language levels. Without enough teaching materials, she could only collect articles from English newspapers and magazines. In spoken English teaching, Isabel asked students to watch her in a given conversation first. Since there were no tape recorders at school, she had to perform the conversation again and again.
Isabel retired in 1981, but she returned to Southwest China many times to help children from poor families. She also went to Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other places to help with foreign language teaching. Isabel died in 2023 in Beijing.
