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 students, you must be __1__-speaking, with a good, strong,__2__voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to __3__what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

　　__4__a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class; he __5__the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his__6__, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express his__7__. Listen to him, and you will__8__the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always __9__according to what he is talking about. The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't __10__that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important__11__between the teacher's work and the actor's. The__12__has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the__13__words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually__14__beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem __15__on the stage.

　　A good teacher__16__in quite a different way. His students take an active part in his __17__: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don't __18__something, they will say no. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his students, which is in his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must __19__it as he goes along.

　　I have known many teachers who were fine__20__in class but unable to take part in a stage play because their brains wouldn't keep discipline: they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

　　1. A. clear B. slow C. small D. low

　　2. A. frightening B. fearing C. exciting D. pleasing

　　3. A. act out B. talk C. say D. repeat

　　4. A. Listen B. Look C. Watch D. Learn

　　5. A. stands B. sits C. lies D. talks

　　6. A. tongue B. words C. legs D. arms

　　7. A. attention B. thanks C. feelings D. sentences

　　8. A. hear B. see C. think D. guess

　　9. A. making B. changing C. expressing D. giving

　　10. A. tell B. express C. show D. mean

　　11. A. things B. differences C. points D. jobs

　　12. A. actor B. teacher C. boy D. student

　　13. A. different B. same C. above D. following

　　14. A. read B. known C. fixed D. written

　　15. A. natural B. bad C. false D. clear

　　16. A. is B. works C. has D. teaches

　　17. A. group B. party C. class D. play

　　18. A. give B. place C. obey D. hear

　　19. A. invent B. discover C. teach D. continue

　　20. A. learners B. watchers C. actors D. listeners

　　[答案与解析]

　　1. A 2. D。clear, good, strong和pleasing都是用来说明一位优秀的教师必备的条件。3. A。为了使意义表达得更清楚,教师必须能够把所教的东西表演出来。4. C 5. A 6. D 7. C。观察一位优秀的教师上课,你就会发现他不是一动不动地坐在全班学生面前,在整个教学过程中,他一直站着,他四处走动,借助双臂、双手和手指来解释,面部表情表达着自己的思想感情。8. A 9. B。听他讲课,你会听到他那抑扬顿挫、悦耳动听的声音总是随着他所讲的内容变化着。10. D

　　11. B。一位优秀的教师具有好演员的天赋这一事实并不意味着他在舞台上确实能演好戏,因为教师的工作和演员的工作有着重要的区别。12. A 13. B 14. C 15. A。演员必须背台词,每次他扮演某个角色时,他都得准确地重复同样的台词,甚至是他的舞台动作和说话方式都是事先固定下来的,他需要做的就是使这些认真背下来的台词在舞台上表演得自然些。16. B。一位优秀教师的工作则完全不同。17. C。学生们以积极的态度听老师的课,他们提问、回答问题。18. C。前面已有提示词obey。19. A。老师不可能把自己所教的内容都背下来,他必须创造性地教学。20. C。许多在课堂上是一位出色的演员的教师却不能参加舞台上的演出。

　　(文/董瑾玉；英语辅导报高三版2003-2004学年第3期；版权归英语辅导报社所有，独家网络合作伙伴新浪教育，未经许可，不得以任何形式进行转载。)