30. Reading Skills Comprehension: Teaching

TEACHING

 Teaching, more even than most other professions, has been transformed during the last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority of the population, to a large and important branch of the public service. The profession has a great and honourable tradition, extending from the dawn of Matos-. y until recent times, but any teacher in the modern world who allows himself to be inspired by the ideals of his Predecessors is likely to be made sharply aware that it is not his function to teach what he thinks, but to instil such beliefs and prejudices as are thought useful by his employers.

 1. In ancient times the teaching profession was

(a) reserved for the upper class

 (b) reserved for a privileged few

 (c) open to all

(d) limited to a highly skilled minority

 2. What has transformed teaching into an important branch of public service is

 (a) teaching skills

(b) technical developments

(c) utilitarian philosophy

(d) the demand of the employing industry

3. According to this passage, in modem times a successful teacher is primarily supposed to

 (a) impart knowledge

 (b) impart new and the latest skills

 (c) to the lines preferred by those in authority

(d) instil values he cherishes the most

 4. The modern teacher is not able to follow the ideals of his predecessors because

 (a) of tremendous advancements in professional skills

(b) of social and financial constraints

 (c) the students are not serious about studies.

 (d) the modern teacher has more interest in politics than in academic activity.

 5. The author seems to

 (a) be against the current trend in the teaching profession

(b) approve the recent developments in the mode of teaching

 (c) be a traditionalist in his views

(d) consider education as a part of public service

ANSWERS:-

1. (a)

2. (c)

 3. (c)

4. (a)

5. (a)

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