To be a good teacher, you need so
me 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 (音色) 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 (預(yù)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 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.
51. What is the text about ?
A. How to become a good teacher.
B. What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.
C. What teachers and actors could learn from each other.
D. The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.
52. The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____ .
A. students B. people who watch a play
C. people who not on the stage D. people who listen to something
53. A good teacher ____ .
A. knows how to hold the interest of his students
B. must have a good voice
C. knows how to act on the stage
D. stands or sits still while teaching
54. In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s ?
A. The teacher must learn everything by heart .
B. He knows how to control his voice better than an actor .
C. He has to deal with unexpected situations .
D. He has to use more facial expressions .
55. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.
A. students can move around in the classroom
B. students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t
C. no memory work is needed for the students
D. the students must take part in their teachers’ plays
an old people's home. They used to tell me that few volunteers would go there and said if someone elderly engages me in 36 ，I'd better make time for them. As a result，I 37 be the only person they got to talk to that day. I've never forgotten this and still 38 time to chat with elderly people.
very enjoyable afternoon. I was very 51 to see that the people I wanted to serve had a wonderful and enjoyable times. It 52 me that one is never too 53 to have fun! I knew my grandparents would have been very 54 of me. It also helped me to remember that whatever is going on in the world，we can still make a(n) 55 to other people's lives.
felt 36 .She went on going, and saw a handsome young man standing in front of a house. No matter how others amused him, he did not 37 at all and the angle asked him ,“What's the matter with you? ”The young man said ,“You see , I 38 a big house 39 a large garden, a beautiful wife and a lovely daughter, but I am not happy at all. ”
45 and wait.”She waved her hand and the things the young man lost suddenly came back. The young man found 46 in a large house rather than near the 47 , his wife was cooking in the kitchen and his girl was playing in the garden. He became very happy and suddenly 48 that he had every happiness.
is a kind of feeling in our heart. Happiness is not gained from the outsid
e objects but from your 49 . And the things in your hands now are the most valuable things to gain continuous happiness; just smile every day and you’ll find happiness 50 everywhere.
I wish just one of them could have won," he said．"They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them．" That's when the idea for his present came．That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought wrestling headgear and shoes for the youngsters and sent them anonymously （匿名地） to the church．On Christmas Eve? I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his gift from me．His smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in the following years．
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