Question

【题目】What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher? I think the following would be generally accepted.

Firstly, the teacher’s personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plainlooking, or even ugly, because many such people have great personal charm. 【1】.

Secondly, it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a capacity for sympathy, a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of children. 【2】—not of what is wrong, but of the weaknesses and immaturity of children, which cause them to make mistakes.

Thirdly, I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations, and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. 【3】. That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act—to enliven(使生动) a lesson, correct a fault, or award praise.

A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. 【4】, for we are none of us born like that.

Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. 【5】；there is always something more to learn about. There are three principal objects of study: the subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching; most importantly, the children, young people, or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught.

A. This, I may say, is largely a matter of selfdiscipline and selftraining

B. Closely related to this is the capacity to be tolerant

C. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect

D. Children, especially young children, live in a world that is rather larger than life

E. There is no contradiction (自相矛盾) in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor

F. But it does rule out such types as the overexcitable, sad, cold, and frustrated

G. There are two fundamental principles of British education today

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】F

【2】B

【3】E

【4】A

【5】C

【解析】本文介绍了老师应该具有什么样的品质。

【1】本段介绍了作为老师相貌平平无所谓，但是要具有人格魅力。但是性格上有问题的人就要排除在外，比如容易过于兴奋，悲伤，冷酷或者沮丧的人就不适合做老师，故选F。

【2】根据上下文可知，老师应该富有同情心，能够理解孩子们的感情，对孩子们的不成熟的做法能够宽容，故选B。

【3】根据下文可知，表演也是老师的教学技巧之一，老师们为了使课堂活跃起来偶尔也需要表演，故选E。

【4】根据上文可知，老师必须要有无限的耐心，另外根据下文的we are none of us born like that可知，这种能力不是天生的，在很大程度上是自律和自我训练的结果，故选A。

【5】根据上下文可知，老师永远有新的东西要去学习，所以永远不会非常的完美，故选C。