下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。My Life at Renda
I learned very quickly that being a teaching assistant(TA) at the University of Iowa would be different from a teacher at Renmin University.
( ) Eyes staring, mouths open, students examining my big nose, hands nervous, people whispering while I wrote my name on the blackboard.
At Iowa, when my first classes began, half my students still hadn't arrived. When everyone fi- nally found a seat, ringing cellphones and loud yawns( 哈欠) interrupted my opening remarks. It is not that American students were disrespectful. ( ) They were, however, far more skepti- cal than the students I had at Renda. The truth is I couldn't fault them for their skepticism. Under-graduates at large US universities——especially freshmen and sophomores——often have several classes a semester handled by TAs. In some cases, the TA sets the course content. ( ) Most have good intentions, but only a few are as effective as flesh-and-blood professors.
Every teacher has to confront obstacles to learning——no matter what the culture. Students who talk during lectures, students who cheat, students who question the grade they get for a paper or project——dealing with these is all part of the job. ( ) The difference, I think, is that in the US I had to swallow more of my pride. ( )
I had a responsibility to teach them, of course, but I had to do so indirectly——as a guide who himself had a few things to learn from the students.
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