1、国家公共英语五级（阅读理解）练习试卷 12及答案与解析 Part C Directions: Answer questions 71-80 by referring to the following games. Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it on ANSWER SHEET 1. Some choices may be required more than once. 0 A=The Role of a Teacher B=The Task of a Teacher C=A Good Teacher I
2、n which passage .The Role of a Teacher Teaching is supposed to be a professional activity requiring long and complicated training as well as official certification. The act of teaching is looked upon as a flow of knowledge from a higher source to an empty container. The students role is one of recei
3、ving information; the teachers role is one of sending it. There is a clear distinction assumed between one who is supposed to know (and therefore not capable of being wrong) and another, usually younger person who is supposed not to know. However, teaching need not be the province of a special group
4、 of people nor need it be looked upon as a technical skill. Teaching can be more like guiding and assisting than forcing information into a supposedly empty head. If you have a certain skill you should be able to share it with someone. You do not have to get certified to convey what you know to some
5、one else or to help them in their attempt to teach themselves. All of us, from the very youngest children to the oldest members of our cultures should come to realize our own potential as teachers. We can share what we know, however little it might be, with someone who is in need of that knowledge o
6、r skill. The Task of a Teacher The task of the teacher in higher education has many dimensions: it involves the provision of a broad context of knowledge within which students can locate and understand the content of their more specific studies; it involves the creation of a learning environment in
7、which students are encouraged to think carefully and critically and express their thoughts, and in which they wish to confront and resolve difficulties rather than gloss over them, it involves constantly monitoring and reflecting on the processes of teaching and student understanding and seeking to
8、improve them. Most difficult of all perhaps, it involves helping students to achieve their own aims, and adopt the notion that underlies higher education: that students learning requires from them commitment, work, responsibility for their own learning, and a willingness to take risks, and that this
9、 process has its rewards, not the least of which is that learning can be tim! These are not easy tasks, and there is no simple way to achieve them. Still less are there any prescriptions that will hold good in all disciplines and for all students. How we teach must be carefully tailored to suit both
10、 that which is to be learnt and those who are to learn it. To put it another way and to add another ingredient our teaching methods should be the outcome of our aims (that is, what we want the students to know, to understand, to be able to do, and to value), our informed conceptions of how students
11、learn, and the institutional context with all of its constraints and possibilities within which the learning is to take place. A Good Teacher “A good teacher knows when to act as Sage on the Stage and when to act as a Guide on the Side. Because student centered learning can be time consuming and mes
12、sy, efficiency will sometimes argue for the Sage. When students are busy making up their own minds, the role of the teacher shifts. When questioning, problem-solving and investigation become the priority classroom activities, the teacher becomes a Guide on the Side.“ Jamie McKenzies article The WIRE
13、D Classroom provides a list of descriptors of the role of a teacher who is a Guide on the Side while students are conducting their investigations. “. the teacher is circulating, redirecting, disciplining, questioning, assessing, guiding, directing, fascinating, validating, facilitating, moving, moni
14、toring, challenging, motivating, watching, moderating, diagnosing, trouble-shooting, observing, encouraging, suggesting, watching, modeling and clarifying.“ The teacher is on the move, checking over shoulders, asking questions and teaching mini-lessons for individuals and groups who need a particula
15、r skill. Support is customized and individualized. The Guide on the Side sets clear expectations, provides explicit directions, and keeps the learning well structured and productive. In a thinking curriculum, students develop an in-depth understanding of the essential concepts and processes for deal
16、ing with those concepts, similar to the approach taken by experts in tackling their tasks. For example, students use original sources to construct historical accounts; they design experiments to answer their questions about natural phenomena; they use mathematics to model real-world events and syste
17、ms; and they write for real audiences. 国家公共英语五级（阅读理解）练习试卷 12答案与解析 Part C Directions: Answer questions 71-80 by referring to the following games. Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it on ANSWER SHEET 1. Some choices may be required more than once. 【知识模块】 阅读理解 1 【正确 答案】 C 【试题解析】
18、 “A Good Teacher”最后一段的第一句 “In a thinking curriculum，students develop an indepth understanding of the essential concepts and processes for dealing with those concepts， similar to the approach taken by experts in tackling their tasks ”说明在 “a thinking curriculum” 中，学生采取了与专家一样的解决问题的方式，因此答案为 C。 【知识模块】 阅读
19、理解 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 “The Task of a Teacher”的第一段中 “and in which they wish to confront and resolve difficulties rather than gloss over them” ， “they”指学生，因此答案为 B。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “A Good Teacher”的第一段中有这样的句子 “When students are busy making up their own minds， the role of the teacher shifts
20、 ”，因此答案为C。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 4 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “The Role of a Teacher”的第二句陈述到 “The act of teaching is looked upon as a flow of knowledge from a higher source to an empty container ”，因此答案为 A。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 “The Task of a Teacher”的第二段中陈述到 “How we teach must be carefully tailored to suit both
21、 that which is to be learnt and those who are to learn it ”因此答案为 B。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “A Good Teacher”的第三段中陈述到 “The teacher is on the move, checking over shoulders， asking questions and teaching mini-lessons for individuals and groups who need a particular skill ”因此答案为 C。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 7 【
22、正确答案】 B 【试题 解析】 “The Task of a Teacher”的第二段第一句陈述到 “These are not easy tasks and there is no simple way to achieve them ”因此，老师的任务是复杂而艰难的，因此答案为 B。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 8 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “The Role of a Teacher”的第五句陈述 “However, teaching need not be the province of a special group of people nor need it be looked
23、upon as a technical skill ”因此答案 为 A。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “A Good Teacher”的第二段中陈述到 “Jamie McKenzies article The Wired Classroom provides a list of descriptors of the role of a teacher who is a Guide on the Side while students are conducting their investigations ”因此答案为C。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 10 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “The Role of a Teacher”的倒数第二句是 “All of US, from the very youngest children to the oldest members of our cultures should come to realize Our own potential as teachers ”，因此答案为 A。 【知识模块】 阅读理解
