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(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 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?

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

3.The skills of a good teacher are        .

4.From the passage, we know        .

5.The title of the passage is         .

根據(jù)句子意思，用括號(hào)內(nèi)所給中文或英語(yǔ)的適當(dāng)形式填空。（每空一詞）
【小題1】You should put all your _________ into your study and never give up.(努力)
【小題2】He has gone far __________ me in learning history.(超越)
【小題3】He preferred ____________my suggestions to making a decision at once. (考慮)
【小題4】That girl seems ____________ with the color of her pretty dress.(滿意的)
【小題5】The noise kept us __________the whole night (醒)
【小題6】Please help those actors write down all the _________ names. (direct)
【小題7】He called me last night to ask for an___________ reply to his question.(immediately)
【小題8】Many beautiful fish are fast __________because of the serious pollution. (appear )
【小題9】How ____________ the girl looks in green! (energy)
【小題10】It is a ____________ to accept his sincere invitation.(pleasant)

When you read an article you will understand and remember it better if you can work out how the writer has put the ideas together．Sometimes a writer puts ideas together by asking questions and then answering them．For example，if the article is about groundhogs（土撥鼠），the set of questions in the writer’s head might be：

What does a groundhog look like？

Where do groundhogs live？

What do they eat？…

In the article，the author might answer those questions．

Sometimes an author writes out her questions in the article．These questions give you signals．They tell you what the author is going to write next．Often an author has a question in her head but she doesn’t write it out for you．You have to work out her question for yourself．Here’s a sample reading for you to practice this method.

Earthworms

Do you know how many kinds of earthworms there are？There are about 1800 kinds in the world！ They can be brown，purple，green．They can be as small as 3 cm long and as large as 3 m long．

The best time to see earthworms is at night，especially a cool，damp night．That’s when they come up from their burrows（地洞）to hunt for food．Earthworms don’t like to be in the sun．That’s because they breathe through their skin，and they can’t breathe if their skin gets too dry．Earthworms must come out of the earth if it rains a lot，because they can't breathe in their flooded burrows．What a dangerous life！

Earthworms don't have eyes，so how can they tell when it's dark？ They have special places on their skin that are sensitive to light．These spots tell whether it’s light or dark．If you shine a flashlight on an earthworm at night，it will quickly disappear into the ground．

Earthworms don't have ears either，but they can hear by feeling movements in the earth．If you want to hear like an earthworm，lie on the ground with your fingers in your ears．Then have a friend stamp his or her feet near you．This is how earthworms feel birds and people walking，and moles digging，near them．

Earthworms are useful．Farmers and gardeners like having lots of earthworms in their land because the worms help to make better soil when they dig．That digging keeps the soil loose and airy（通風(fēng)的）．In one year earthworms can pile up as much as 23,000 kg of castings in an area about the size of a football field．

1.What’s the purpose of reading Earthworms?

A．To show the special life facts of earthworms.

B．To explain the differences from the groundhogs.

C．To put the writer’s idea into real use.

D．To make the readers think more clearly.

2.Which question CANNOT be answered in the passage?

A．How do earthworms help with gardeners?

B．What life are earthworms living with?

C．When may people observe earthworms?

D．Why can human listen like earthworms?

3.How can you understand Earthworms better according to this passage?

A．Read, ask and answer questions in your own head while reading.

B．Read to work out all the questions in the writer’s head while reading.

C．Read and check all the things that are not clear to you again and again.

D．Read for general ideas and discuss or compare with other similar topics.

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A．One way to help with understanding

B．One way to practice with a new idea

C．One way to learn to be a wise writer

D．One way to be clearer about worms

完形填空  閱讀下面短文，從每題ABCD四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出一個(gè)能填入文章中相應(yīng)空白處的最佳答案。

Mr. and Mrs. Bell are very  56 . For example, Mr. Bell sometimes goes to his office for work on Sunday morning, for he thinks it is Monday. And Mrs. Bell sometimes forgets to cook supper for the family.

One summer they planned to  57  to New York for their holidays. They got to the airport only ten minutes before the plane took   58  . So time was short. But suddenly Mrs. Bell said  59  must tell their daughter not to forget  to lock the front door  60  she went to school. As Alice was then at school, they couldn’t   61   her about it by telephone. So they hurried to the __62  . Mrs. Bell wrote a short   63   to Alice while Mr. Bell bought a stamp and an envelope. Soon the note was ready. They put the stamp on the envelope in a hurry and dropped it in the letter box,   64   suddenly Mrs. Bell began to cry. The short note was   65   in her hand. She had put the plane tickets in the envelope.

1.A. careful        B. friendly        C. forgetful           D. hard-working

2. A. drive          B. fly            C. walk              D. ride

3. A. off            B. away          C. out               D. place

4. A. I              B. you           C. he                D. she 

5. A. when          B. until           C. since              D. while

6. A. show          B. tell            C. ask                D. take

7.A. hospital     B. police station   C. bookstore           D. post office

8. A. story          B. note            C. book              D. play

9. A. so            B. or              C. but               D. though

10. A. ever           B. even            C. still              D. also

A Russian, a Cuban, an American businessman and an American lawyer were on a train traveling across England. The Russian took out a large bottle of vodka, gave each of the men a drink and then threw the rest half bottle of vodka out of the window. “Why did you do that?” asked the American businessman. “There’s too much vodka in my country,” said the Russian, “And really we have more than we will ever use.” A little later, the Cuban passed around fine Havana Cigars. Then he threw his out of the window. “I thought Cuba is not a rich country,” the businessman said. “But you threw that very good cigars out of the window!” “Cigars,” the Cuban answered, “are the cheapest in my country. We have more of them than we know what to do with.” The American businessman sat quietly for a moment. Then he got up, caught the lawyer by the arm and threw him of the window.
【小題1】The people in the story are from ______ countries.