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．
(1)
What does the underlined word “gifts” mean?
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A．
presents
B．
knowledge
C．
skills
D．
advantages
(2)
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
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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．
(3)
The skills of a good teacher are ________．
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A．
draw his students' attention．
B．
change his voice when needed．
C．
act out what he is teaching
D．
all the above
(4)
From the passage, we know ________．
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A．
a good teacher should be a good actor
B．
a good teacher may be unable to act well on the stage
You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year．You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly．
Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have．
Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions．
(1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?
(2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?
(3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?
(4)Do you read one word at a time?
If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit．If you move your tips，hold your fingers over them，or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading．Then if your lips move，your will know it and can stop them．
If you point to words，hold the two sides of your book，one side with your left hand，the other side with your right hand．Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading．If you move your head，place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的)．
If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time，you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words．
Even if you do rather fast now，you can learn to read even faster．As you probably have been told，the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance．Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go．Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster．
(1)
You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______．
A．to tell others to be silent
B．to feel whether your lips move or not
C．to hold a piece of paper between them
D．to keep yourself from talking to others
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(2)
When you read，______．
A．don't keep your head still
B．don't hold your books with your hands
C．don't stand up near a desk
D．don't use your finger to point to words
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(3)
If you learn to read fast，______．
A．you can read more in less time
B．you can write faster
C．you can understand better
D．you can read less in more time
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(4)
You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading．
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