Question

“Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”

a. Whom does ‘they’ refer to?

b. What is contrasted with?

c. What does ‘regular’ mean here?

d. Pick out a word from the passage which means ‘certain’.

Answer 1

1)Here they refer to students.

2) The contrasted thing was that ther was not a regular teacher. He was a mentor and there was no mentee.

3) Here regular means that a people or thing of daily routine.

4( certain - sure

Answer 2

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A》They refers to the students who studies in the old kind of schools centuries before the time the story is set in.

B》Here, 'regular' refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie had. According to author, centuries later this would be the norm.

C》The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a human being.