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?

A. presents	B. knowledge
C. skills	D. advantages

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

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        .

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        .

A. a good teacher should be a good actor	B. a good teacher may be unable to act well on the stage
C. a good actor should be a good teacher	D. a good actor may act well in class

5.The title of the passage is         .

A. How to be a good teacher	B. How to be a good actor
C. A good teacher’s knowledge	D. A good actor’s behaviour

 

 

Amy: Excuse me, Jill.
Jill:  Yes, what can I do for you?
Amy: Did you see two persons pass from here? I want to take photos with them.
Jill:  Can you describe what they look like?
Amy: Yes, they are one boy and one girl. The girl is very beautiful. quite thin and has long hair. And that boy is also very tall. He is about 1.98 meters tall. He has big eyes and  short black hair.
Jill:  You mean Sun Yang, the famous swimming player? And he wears a pair of sunglasses?
Amy: Quite right. He stays in Shaoxing these days for swimming. Did you see them?
Jill:  Yes, they passed here 10 minutes ago. If you go quickly, You can catch up with them。
Amy: I will do that. Goodbye. Thanks a lot.
Jill:  Goodbye.
【小题1】The boy and the girl           .

A．went to the park 10 minutes ago..	B．went to the cinema 10 minutes ago.
C．passed here 10 minutes ago.	D．passed here 20 minutes ago.

【小题2】What does the girl look like?
A. She has big eyes and a big nose.   B. She has long hair.     
C. She is very tall and beautiful.      D.B and C..
【小题3】What does the boy look like?
A. He is tall.                    B. He is of medium height.
C. He has big eyes and his hair is black. D. A and C.
【小题4】What does the phrase “catch up with” mean?

A．追赶上.

B．抓住.

C．向上.

D．嘲笑.

【小题5】 What does Amy want to do?

A．She wants to say hello to the boy and the girl.

B．She wants to tell them an interesting story.

C．She wants to catch up with them.

D．She wants to take photos with them.

–I hear that a famous scientist will come to give us a talk. Do you know ______?

   --About the development of the modern science.

    A. when he will come            B. when will he come

    C. what he will talk about          D. what will he talk about

 

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
【小题1】Edison was______________.

A．interested in changing people’s ideas

B．interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C．very much uninterested in nature

D．uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

【小题2】Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

B．Edison has changed the lives of many other people.

C．Only a few men in history can change other people’s lives.

D．Edison invented the electric light.

【小题3】The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)___________.

A．people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year’s work

B．Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

C．Edison made 100 inventions in his life

D．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years

Do you still remember the terrible earthquake in 2008 in Sichuan, which killed at least 87,000 people and left millions homeless? On the twelfth day after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao said, “A new Wenchuan will rise from the ruins（废墟）.” Now his words have come true. Three years has passed and the worst-hit areas in Sichuan have risen from the ruins.
So far, 95% of the reconstruction projects（重建项目）have been completed. Nearly 3,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals and more than 5 million homes have been built. Now everyone has been provided with a home, a job and social security（社保）.
Dong Xinjun, a villager in Qingchuan, said volunteers from Zhejiang taught him how to grow mushrooms and now he makes about 3,000 yuan more than before every year.
Zhu Lihu, the headmaster of a village primary school in Qingchuan, told us that teaching equipment had been greatly improved. Now they have new classrooms, a library and a computer room with 20 computers.
On May 8th, 2011, Premier Wen Jiabao made his 10th visit to Sichuan Province after the earthquake. He visited a lot of middle schools and neighborhoods. At Beichuan Middle School, Premier Wen embraced a student named Zheng Haiyang, who lost both of his legs in the earthquake. The students told Premier Wen that their new school was very beautiful. And they would never forget that it was built with the hearts and strength of people across the whole country.
Premier Wen believes that the people in Wenchuan have a “strong will” and a “bright future”. They will never back down, but stand bravely on this land.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Nearly 1,000 schools have been built.

B．Dong Xinjun makes about 3,000 yuan every year.

C．Zhu Lihu’s new school has a new large gym.

D．Zheng Haiyang is a student of Beichuan Middle School.

【小题2】What does the underlined word “embraced” mean in Paragraph 5?

A．Put arms around him in a loving way.

B．Shook hands with him in a friendly way.

C．Bowed to him in a very polite way.

D．Smiled at him in a very kind way.

【小题3】How does the passage show us “Wenchuan has risen from the ruins”?

A．By giving facts and examples.

B．By comparing different places.

C．By describing people’s looks.

D．By using volunteers’ words.