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 clever speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing
voice which is fully under your control and you must be able to hold what you
are teaching in order to make its meaning clear. The fact that a good teaches'
has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean that he/rill 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. 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 no. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his
audience, which is his class. He can not learn his part by heart, but must
invent it as he goes along.
单选题
The word "gifts" (Line 1, Para. 1) means" ______ ".
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 语义理解题。根据引号中的线索词gifts定位到文章第一段第一句中的you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience(你必须具有吸引听众注意力和兴趣的能力)，可知gifts在此句中含有“才能”的意思，因此答案为B)。
[避错] A)“礼物”，这是gifts的另一词义，但不适合此处语境；C)“属于好演员的东西”，无法从上下文中推出，也不合适；D)“老师上课的方式”，也不符合上下文意思。
单选题
A teacher's work is the same as an actor's because they both must be able to ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。根据线索词the same as an actor's定位到文章第一段第一句：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．(要想成为好老师，你必须具备好演员的一些才能：你必须具有吸引听众注意力和兴趣的能力。)所以好老师和好演员都必须要能够吸引听众的注意力和兴趣，因此答案为A)。
[避错] B)“记住台词”和C)“用事先设计好的方式说话”是演员的工作需要，而不是教师的工作特点，故排除；D)“使他们的行为适应听众的需求”是教师的工作特点，而不是教师与演员的共同特点，所以也排除。
单选题
A teacher's work is different from an actor's because the teacher has to ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 细节推断题。根据文章第一段第三句可知演员的动作及台词都是事先设计好的，而由文章第二段第三句中的suit his act to the needs of his audience(使他的行为适应听众的需求)和invent it as he goes along(一边教，一边想)可知，教师不同于演员之处在于：教师必须要能应对意料之外的情况，因此答案为C)。
[避错] 根据文章第二段第三句中的“他不能把台词熟记在心，他要一边教，一边想”，可排除A)；根据文章第一段第一句可知，懂得如何控制自己声音是老师和演员的共同之处，故排除B)；D)“他要使用更多的面部表情”，在文中没有提及，故也为错误选项。
单选题
From the passage, we can infer that a good teacher can
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 细节辨认题。根据文章第一段第一句：To be a good teacher，you need some of the gifts of a good actor．(想成为好教师，必须具有好演员的一些才能。)由此可推出教师可以学习演员的一些才能，故答案为C)。
[避错] 根据第一段第二句话可知，具有好演员的才能并不意味着好老师可以在舞台上表演，故排除A)；根据文章第二段第三句可知，教师要能够处理意料不到的问题，而第一段最后一句说明演员要做的就是把熟记的台词和动作在舞台上非常自然地表演出来，由此推断好演员未必能做好教师，故排除B)；根据文章第二段第三句中“使他的行为适应听众的需求”，可知教师不能不顾学生的反应，只顾自己说，故排除D)。