When I was young, I wanted to be a teacher if I grew up，simply because I wanted to write on the chalkboard！My teachers seemed to be the   36  printers，curving their letters just so，and I wanted to do it   37 ！Now，after "higher education"，and three   38  career paths，I have come back to want to be a   39 ，but my reasons have changed. I was   40  in my years of high school，to have teachers that really   41  me as an individual, and I want to   42  this back.
A teacher's gentleness needs to be shown when    43   or encouraging the students. It is important to make the corrections in order for the students to learn.    44  ，this needs to be done in a    45   that will help to    46   the student to make the changes necessary,___47___  discouraging them from learning.Being patient is also extremely important，because the class needs to know what to    48   from the teacher.This will also help to build a better agreement with the students，and help both the teacher and students to learn more about each other.
If a teacher exhibits a true love of    49   and helping students learn，many of the qualities ___50___ above will just fall into place. The teacher that had the most    51   on me had the best fame in the school. She was strict，and she did demand a lot, but she was able to show us it was               ___52___she cared for us. She knew each of us was worth it，and she knew we each could do it. She __53___ knowledge，gently, firmly, patiently，respectfully, and most effectively. She gently encouraged us to make    54   when we needed to，and    55   us when we did. She was a true teacher, not just someone who taught，and this is the kind of teacher I hope to be.

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, 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 a good teacher, and you will see that he does not 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. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t 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 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. 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 takes an active part in his play：they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

1.

What is the text about?

2.

The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____.

3.

A good teacher ____.

4.

In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?

5.

The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

Teaching materials for learning Chinese are provided here. There are sites where you may find interesting instructions suitable for you. Here are some sites to begin your surfing.

   You may start with these pages from this website — just to get a little taste of it without working too hard.

 ● A Is For Love

  Flash cards for learning a few Chinese words

 ● Listening to the sound of Chinese

  Play a few words of Chinese on your computer.

 ● A few Chinese words

  Each word is enlarged for easy study.

  If you are studying Chinese, these tools can help.

 ● Zhongwen site

  More than a dictionary!

 ● Clavis Sinica

  Excellent program by Professor David Porter. It displays a whole document in Chinese [GB] or [BIG5], and gives individual word’s definition, pronunciation as well as much more information when you click on that word. If you are studying Chinese, this is a very useful tool.

 ● Chinese Character Visual Dictionary

   If you like to know more, go to the following sites on the Internet.

 ● The Chinese Outpost

   Pronunciation, Character and Grammar By Mark Andrew Baker. The best. A must-visit site.

 ● Learn Cantonese / Mandarin Online

 ● Internet Based Chinese Teaching and Learning

 ● Rainland Kids discover Chinese — Site is in Germany

   If you want to have a better understanding of China, go to this one.

 ● Wanfang Data

   As an affiliate (分支) of Chinese Ministry of Science &Technology, Wanfang Data has been the leading information provider in China since 1950s. With a wide range of database resources and value-added services, Wanfang Data has become a “gateway “to understanding Chinese culture, medicine, business, science, etc.

1.The underlined(画线的) lines are probably some ______.

A. books                                            B. websites 

C. tips for learning Chinese                           D. dictionaries for learning Chinese

2.This passage is most probably from ______.

A. a TV programme                                 B. a teacher’s lecture

C. a newspaper                                 D. the Internet

3.If you want to know each Chinese character’s definition, pronunciation and much more information, you’d better surf ______.

A. Zhongwen site                    B. A Is For Love

C. Clavis Sinica                         D. A few Chinese words

4.If you want to know China about its culture, medicine, business, science, you’d better surf _____.

A. Learn Mandarin online                         B. Wanfang Data

C. Rainland kids discover Chinese              D. The Chinese Outpost

5.The word “gateway” in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.

A. an opening in a wall that can be closed by a gate

B. a place through which you can go to another place

C. the space when a door is open

D. a means of getting or achieving something

Teaching materials for learning Chinese are provided here. There are sites where you may find interesting instructions suitable for you. Here are some sites to begin your surfing.

You may start with these pages from this website — just to get a little taste of it without working too hard.

● A Is For Love

Flash cards for learning a few Chinese words

● Listening to the sound of Chinese

Play a few words of Chinese on your computer.

● A few Chinese words

Each word is enlarged for easy study.

If you are studying Chinese, these tools can help.

● Zhongwen site

More than a dictionary!

● Clavis Sinica

 Excellent program by Professor David Porter. It displays a whole document in Chinese [GB] or [BIG5], and gives individual word’s definition, pronunciation as well as much more information when you click on that word. If you are studying Chinese, this is a very useful tool.

● Chinese Character Visual Dictionary

If you like to know more, go to the following sites on the Internet.

● The Chinese Outpost

Pronunciation, Character and Grammer By Mark Andrew Baker. The best. A must-visit site.

● Learn Cantonese / Mandarin Online

● Internet Based Chinese Teaching and Learning

● Rainland Kids discover Chinese — Site is in Germany

If you want to have a better understanding of China, go to this one.

● Wanfang Data

As an affiliate (分支) of Chinese Ministry of Science && Technology, Wanfang Data has been the leading information provider in China since 1950s. With a wide range of database resources and value-added services, Wanfang Data has become a gateway to understanding Chinese culture, medicine, business, science, etc.

This passage is most probably from ______.

A. a TV programme            B. a teacher’s lecture

C. a newspaper                  D. the Internet

If you want to know each Chinese character’s definition, pronunciation and much more information, you’d better surf ______.

A. Zhongwen site   B. A Is For Love         C. Clavis Sinica   D. A few Chinese words

If you want to know China about its culture, medicine, business, science, you’d better surf ______.

A. Learn Mandarin online                   B. Wanfang Data

C. Rainland kids discover Chinese        D. The Chinese Outpost

The underlined word “gateway” in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.

A. an opening in a wall that can be closed by a gate

B. a place through which you can go to another place  

C. the space when a door is open 

D. a means of getting or achieving something

Many factors influence a student in his/her study, ____ I think are out of a teacher’s control.  

A. most of them                B. most of which

C. most of what                D. most of that