单选题 So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that "reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible."
Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a public activity: It can be seen and observed.
Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny.
If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest(探索)for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. "Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children."
When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, and when both teacher and learner fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of learning to read by reading.

单选题 The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the first paragraph is that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 参见文章第一段第四行。
单选题 The teaching of reading will be successful if ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 依据文章第二段第二行开始B项符合其意思。
单选题 The word "scrutiny" (Line 3, Par
【正确答案】
【答案解析】[解析] 首先四选项的含义应该明确:A.“询问”;B.“观察”:C.“控制”:D.“怀疑”。出现该词的句子为process is not open to public scrutiny。而最明显的提示出现在第二段最后一句,scrutiny最可能的词义应该是observation。
单选题 According to the passage, learning to read will no longer be a difficult task when ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 依据文章第四段、第五段所提供的信息,特别是第五段第三行。
单选题 The main idea of the passage is that ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 依据文章第一段第五行说明阅读能力并不是通过教师教就能掌握的。教师所应做的是给学生创造一个好的环境和条件,激发学生阅读的渴望,培养出良好的阅读习惯、方法,只有这样,才能掌握阅读技能,提高阅读水平。