Question

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of good actors: You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience,you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing 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 good teachers, and you will see that they do not sit motionless before their class: They stand the whole time they are teaching, they walk about, using their arms, hands and fingers to help them in their explanations, and their faces to express feelings. Listen to them, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of their voices always changing according to what they are talking about.

The fact that good teachers have some of the gifts of good actors does not mean that they will indeed be able to act well on the stage: There are very important differences between the teachers’ work and the actors’. Actors have to speak words which they have learnt by heart, they have to repeat exactly the same words each time they play a certain part, even their movement and the ways in which they use their voices are usually fixed before. What they have to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

Good teachers work in quite a different way. Their audience take an active part in the play: They ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they do not understand something, they say so. Teachers therefore have to suit their act to the needs of their audience, which is their class. They cannot learn their part by heart, but must invent it as they go along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take   part in a stage play because their brains would not keep discipline: They could not keep strict to what another had written.

1. The passage mainly tells us ________________.

A. what a good teacher is

B. how to be a good teacher

C. the difference between a teacher and an actor

D. the way to become a good teacher

2. To be a good teacher, which of the following is not needed?

A. He should be able to hold the audience’s attention.

B. He must have a clear but low and soft voice.

C. He should be able to act what he’s teaching.

D. He doesn’t sit in a chair with an expressionless face.

3. Teachers in class have to ________________.

A. create a group of audience

B. meet their students’ needs

C. be told what to do by their students

D. invent a certain part of a play

4. The passage seems to suggest that a good teacher may not be a good actor because ________________.

A. they are nervous on the stage

B. their brains are out of control

C. they miss their students

D. they are not used to saying what others have written

5. Which of the following has the same meaning as the underlined word “motionless”?

A.　　  still　　　　  　　　　　　   　　   

B.　　  quiet

C.　　  silent　　    　　　　　　  

D.　　 calm

 

Answer 1

答案：C;B;B;D;A
提示：

1 本文主要介绍教师和演员的区别，故本题选C 2 从文章第一段可知，本题选B 3 教师在课堂上必须要满足学生的需求，故本题选B 4 从文章最后一段可知本题选D 5 联系上下文，motionless是“静止”的意思。