Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word. Students vs. Teachers Nicole’s most recent article really interests me a lot by touching on how a student should properly judge his or her teacher in their ability to (1) . Because I myself, as an inexperienced young college teacher, have so frequently been (2) with the same problem — students are so likely to ask the teacher so many knotty (3) that they reckon he or she will make neither head nor (4) of. I remember one of the questions that my students once asked me with a cunning frown, “If the (5) form of mouse (which is the mammal) is mice, how about the mouse linked on our (6) ? What is its plural form? Mice or mouses?” I was dumbfounded indeed. For I seldom (7) about it and never used two such things at the same (8) . But I soon responded that I didn’t know for (9) at the moment and had to go back and (10) it out and if you really pressed me for an (11) then it must be “mice,” for I could not think of any other (12) answer to it through tight logic and sound grammar rules. Later on I found out my timid (13) was right. I was so happy. My students’ attempt to bring me (14) with their smart-devised question was thwarted. I claimed the (15) in such a clever manner that my students (16) me with their nodding and after-class admiring chat among themselves. I won another (17) of wit. But surely I knew this was not going to be the (18) ; there were going to be more ones harder to crack, coming pouring onto my face like waterfalls as soon as I saw my students again. It was a nightmare.