试题出自试卷《武汉大学2014年考博英语真题》

Since professors stand at the center of the student's encounter with college learning, students ought to ask what marks a good professor, what indicates a bad one. The one who sets high standards and persists in demanding that students try to meet them provides the right experiences. The professor who gives praise cheaply who pretends to a relationship that does not and cannot exist teaches the wrong lessons. True, the demanding teacher does not trade in the currency students possess,which is their power to praise or reject teachers. The demanding professor knows that students will stumble. But the ones who pick themselves up and try again have learned a lesson that will save them for a lifetime.
I do not mean to suggest that for each one of us there is one perfect teacher who changes our lives. We must learn from many teachers as we grow up and grow old; and we must learn to recognize the good ones. The great teacher is the one who wants to become obsolete in the life of the student. The good teacher is the one who teaches lessons and moves on, celebrating the student's growth. The Talmud relates the story of a disciple in an academy who won an argument over the position held by God in the academy on high. The question is asked, “What happened in heaven?” The answer: “God clapped hands in joy, saying, ‘My children have vanquished me, my children have vanquished.'” That is a model for the teacher—to enjoy losing an argument to a student, to recognize his or her contribution, to let the student surpass the teacher.
In the encounter with the teacher who takes you seriously, you learn to take yourself seriously. In the eyes of the one who sees what you can accomplish, you gain a vision of yourself as more than you thought you were. The ideal professor is the one who inspires to dream of what you can be. Everyone who succeeds in life can point to such a teacher, whether in the classroom or on the sports field. It is always the one who cared enough to criticize,and stayed around to praise.
To define an ideal for their work, let me offer guidelines on how to treat professors the way we treat students. The conscientious professors spend time reading and thinking about students' papers, inscribing their comments and even discussing with students the strengths and weaknesses of their work. Since effective teaching requires capturing the students' imagination,the professor who is a “character” is apt, whether liked or disliked,to make a profound impression and perhaps also to leave a mark on the students' minds. The drab professors, not gossiped about and not remembered except for what they taught,may find that even what they taught is forgotten.
Students have their own definitions of good and bad. Let us consider how students evaluate their teachers,examining in turn the A,B,and C professors. We will begin at the bottom of one scale and work our way up. Let us at the same time consider what kind of student seeks which grade.

1.From this passage we know that the author thinks a lot of professors who（ ）.

2.It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that a good teacher（ ） .

3.The sentence “…the ones who pick themselves up and try again have learned a lesson will save them for a lifetime” in paragraph 1 means that（ ） .

4.The word “drab” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “ （ ）”.