A) bare
B) vacant
C) hollow
D) blank
63. A culture in which the citizens share similar religious beliefs and values is more likely
to have laws that represent the wishes of its people than is a culture where citizens
come from backgrounds.
A) extensive
B) influential
C) diverse
D) identical
64. Areas where students have particular difficulty have been treated particular care.
A) by
B) in
C) under
D) with
65. He gave a to handle the affairs in a friendly manner.
A) pledge
B) mission
C) plunge
D) motion
66. Don’t let the child play with scissors he cuts himself.
A) in case
B) so that
C) now that
D) only if
67. ________ the danger from enemy action, people had to cope with a severe shortage
of food, clothing, fuel, and almost everything.
A) As far as
B) As long as
C) As well as
D) As soon as
68. Many people lost their jobs during the business ________.
A) desperation
B) decrease
C) despair
D) depression
69. Whenever a big company a small one, the product almost always gets worse.
A) gets on with
B) cuts down
C) takes over
D) puts up with
70. Mr. Smith was the only witness who said that the fire was ________.
A) mature
B) deliberate
C) meaningful
D) innocent
Part IV Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part there is a short passage with 8 questions or incomplete
statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or
complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Write your answers in
the spaces provided on the right of the page.
What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher? I think the following would be
generally accepted.
First, the teacher’s personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out
people who are plain-looking, or even ugly, because many such people have great personal
charm. But it does rule out such types as the over-excitable, sad, cold, and frustrated.
Secondly, it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a genuine
capacity for sympathy, a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of other people,
especially, since most teachers are school teachers, the minds and feelings of children.
Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerant—not, indeed, of what is wrong,
but of the weaknesses and immaturity of human nature which induce (i)~) people, and
again especially children, to make mistakes.
Thirdly, I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest.
This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations, and will
have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be
guided. There is no contradiction in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of
an actor. That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and
then a teacher should be able to put on an act to enliven (使生动) a lesson, correct a fault,
or award praise. Children, especially young children, live in a world that is rather larger
than life.
A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. This, I may say, is largely a matter of
self-discipline and self-training, for we are none of us born like that.
Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on
learning. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect; there is always something
more to learn about it. There are three principal objects of study: the subjects which the
teacher is teaching; the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular
pupils in the classes he is teaching; and—by far the most important—the children, young
people, or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught. The two fundamental principles
of British education today are that education is education of the whole person, and that it
is best acquired through full and active co-operation between two persons, the teacher
and the learner.
S1. Plain-looking teachers can also be admired by their students if they have S1.
S2. The author says it is S2 that teachers be sympathetic with their students.
S3. A teacher should be tolerant because humans tend to have S3(1) and to be S3(2).
S4. A teacher who is S4 will be able to make his lessons more lively.
S5. How can a teacher acquire infinite patience?