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? S5
S6. Since teaching is a job no one can be perfect at, it is necessary for
teachers to keep improving their knowledge of the subjects they teach and their
S6
S7. Teachers' most important object of study is S7 .
S8. Education cannot be best acquired without S8 between the teacher and
the learner
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write an
eye-witness account of a traffic accident. You should write at least 120 words
according to the outline given below in Chinese:
精彩生活 
