To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasant voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he doesn’t sit still before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.
There are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s.
The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand(预先).What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage. A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience take an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand anything, they say so. The teacher can’t learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who are fine actors in class but are unable to take part in a stage-play because they can’t keep strictly to what another has written.
【小题1】 What does the underlined word “gifts” mean?
A.presentsB.knowledge
C.skillsD.advantages
【小题2】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.A good teacher should speak clearly.
B.A good teacher should sit still before his class and speak with his body language.
C.A good actor should speak as others have asked him to do.
D.A good actor should repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part.
【小题3】The skills of a good teacher are        .
A.draw his students’ attention.B.change his voice when needed.
C.act out what he is teachingD.all the above
【小题4】From the passage, we know        .
A.a good teacher should be a good actorB.a good teacher may be unable to act well on the stage
C.a good actor should be a good teacherD.a good actor may act well in class
【小题5】The title of the passage is         .
A.How to be a good teacherB.How to be a good actor
C.A good teacher’s knowledgeD.A good actor’s behaviour
Henry works in a factory. He comes from a poor family and was in school for only four years. He has to do the hard work, but he is paid less. He likes to watch football matches very much and spends much time on them.
One afternoon there was a big football match on the playground. He borrowed some money from his friend and hurried there. There were a lot of people there. And all the tickets were sold out. He was sorry for it. He saw a pole(杆子)outside the playground and climbed it quickly. A policeman came and said, “It is dangerous to stay on it! Come down!”
“Wait a minute, please!” Henry said and just at that moment the policeman heard cheers on the playground and asked in a hurry, “Which team has kicked a goal(进球)?” “Ours!” “Wonderful! You can stay there. But take care!” The policeman said happily and left. When the match would be soon over, he came back again and asked, “Who has won?” “Theirs, 3:2.” “Come down,” the policeman said angrily. “Such a match is not worth watching!”
Henry had to come down. But soon they heard cheers again. The policeman said in a hurry, “Climb up quickly and see who has kicked a goal.”
【小题1】From the passage we know that ____________.
A.Henry doesn’t like his workB.Henry comes from a rich family
C.Henry doesn’t like the policemanD.Henry is paid less
【小题2】Henry failed to get a ticket for the match that day because __________.
A.he had no money to buy a ticketB.he didn’t want to buy a ticket
C.he had no time to buy a ticketD.all the tickets were sold out
【小题3】The policeman asked Henry to come down the pole at first because __________.
A.it was dangerousB.Henry had no ticket
C.their team kicked a goalD.the other team kicked a goal
【小题4】 From the third paragraph(段落), we can guess that __________.
A.the policeman wanted to teach Henry a lesson
B.the policeman tried to please Henry
C.the policeman didn’t like Henry
D.the policeman was also a football fan
【小题5】The policeman asked Henry to climb up the pole __________.
A.to cheer for their teamB.to see the result of the match
C.to cheer for the other teamD.to say goodbye to their team

My grandfather is a teacher. He is the head teacher of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he is a kind man, because he gives me presents(礼物), and let me sit on his knees(膝盖), and tells me stories. But I believe(相信) the boys at his school are afraid of him. At school, when he walks into a room full of boys, they will be quiet at once(立刻). When he looks at a boy with a certain look in his eyes, that boy’s face goes red, and looks down at his shoes. If a boy brings careless(粗心的)work, my grandfather will pick up the boy’s book and throw(扔) it across the room, shouting(喊), “Do it all again, and bring it back the first thing in the morning!” if the boy is late, or if he forgets to bring the work, he has to do it again, and again and yet again.

1.My grandfather is ______.

A.a kind teacher

B.a teacher, and he gives presents to his students.

C.the head teacher of a boy’s school

D.a boy at a school. In that school, everyone was afraid of the head teacher.

2.I know my grandfather is kind because_________.

A.he is the head teacher of a boy’s school.

B.he gives me presents and tells me stories.

C.he tells me stories about how kind he is.

D.the boys at his school aren’t afraid of him.

3.When he looks at a boy in a certain way, that boy ________

A.goes red in the face and could not return my grandfather’s look.

B.looks back at my grandfather’s red face

C.looks at his shoes to see if they are dirty.

D.goes red in the face because his shoes are dirty.

4.My grandfather does not like to receive________

A.my poor work

B.the work that the boys can’t do

C.his students’ careless work

D.the most careful work

5.When he receives any boy’s poor work, my grandfather will____

A.shout at him and throw it across the room

B.go red in the face

C.throw his students’ books and shout in the room.

D.throw the book at the boy

 

To be a good teacher, you need some of the abilities of a good actor. You must be able to__1___ the attention and interest of your audience. You must be a clear speaker with a good voice which is fully under your _2___. And you must be able to act what you are teaching in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, __3___ you will see that he stands the whole time he is teaching, he walks about using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations and his face to express feelings. When you listen to him, you will hear the loudness and the musical note of his voice __4__changing according to what he is talking about.

The __5__ that a good teacher has some of the talents of a good actor does not mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to __6___ the same words which he has learnt by heart every time he plays a certain role. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem __7__ on the stage.

The good teacher works in a quite different way. His audience take an active part in his play. They ask questions when they do not understand something. So the teacher has to suit his act to the __8___ of his audience which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must ___9___ it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were __10___ to take part in stage-play because their brains (大脑) could not keep strictly to what another had written.

1.A. pay            B. give         C. attract          D. turn

2.A. help           B. control      C. mind             D. thoughts

3.A. and            B. but          C. or               D. so

4.A. never          B. seldom       C. sometimes        D. always

5.A. matter         B. idea         C. fact             D. secret

6.A. remind         B. remember     C. reply            D. repeat

7.A. correct        B. true         C. natural          D. real

8.A. questions      B. needs        C. problems         D. complaints

9.A. invent         B. discover     C. improve          D. increase

10.A. unwelcome B. unable           C. uncomfortable    D. unsuitable

 

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