单选题 There is a popular belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling. No school I have taught in has ever ignored spelling or considered it unimportant as a basic skill. There are, however, vastly different ideas about how to teach it and how to encourage a child to write without holding him back with the complexities of spelling.
If spelling becomes the only focal point of his teacher"s interest, clearly a bright child will be likely to "play safe" . He will tend to write only words within his spelling range, choosing to avoid adventurous language. That"s why teachers often encourage the early use of dictionaries and pay attention to content rather than technical ability.
I was once shocked to read on the bottom of a piece of writing about a personal experience:
"This work is terrible! There are far too many spelling errors and your writing is not neat." It may have been a sharp criticism of the pupil"s technical abilities in writing. But it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omitted to read the essay, which contained some beautiful expressions of the child"s deep feelings. The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors. But if his priorities had centred on the child"s ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the writing would have given the pupil more motivation to seek improvement."
单选题 What is the author"s attitude towards the "popular belief" mentioned in Para. 1?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】推理判断题。本题询问作者对第一段中提到的“普遍看法”持什么态度。根据文章第一段第一句话可知这个“普遍看法”是指家长普遍认为学校不再重视学生的拼写问题。第一段第二句话指出作者工作过的学校从来都没有忽视过学生的拼写问题。由此可推知作者不赞同这一“普遍看法”,故选项B(不同意这种看法)为正确答案。
选项A(作者同意这种看法)、选项C(作者保持中立态度)和选项D(作者一言不发)说法皆不符合作者的观点,故为错误选项。
单选题 Teachers encourage the early use of dictionaries because it helps ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】推理判断题。本题询问老师鼓励学生很早使用字典,是因为这样可以有助于什么。根据文章第二段可知学生为“安全起见”,写作中会只用那些自己会写的单词,由此可推知这样就会影响他们在写作中的表达,因此鼓励学生用字典是想让他们关注表达内容,这有利于提高学生的写作表达。故选项B为正确答案。
根据文章第二段内容可知选项A(学生学习如何使用字典)、选项C(老师了解学生写作水平提高的情况)和选项D(老师对学生写作错误的重视)都不是老师鼓励学生很早使用字典的原因,故不选。
单选题 The phrase "play safe" (Sentence 1, Para. 2) probably means ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】语义理解题。本题询问文章第二段第一句中的短语“play safe”的意思很可能是什么。与这个短语相关的句子是文章第二段第一句话和第二句话,第二句话是对第一句话的进一步说明。根据第二句话可知学生只用自己会拼写的单词写作文,是为了避开那些有可能会拼写错误的单词。所以,短语“play safe”是指学生在写作中只用自己会写的单词. 故选项C为正确答案。
根据文章内容,选项A(书写很整齐)和选项B(关注单词的内容)都不是学生为“安全起见”的做法,不符合下文中对play safe的解释。学生使用自己会拼写的单词,并不是指学生只用那些书写最简单的单词,故选项D的说法不符合原文意思。
单选题 We can learn from the last paragraph that teachers should ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】推理判断题。本题询问从最后一段中我们可以知道老师应该怎么做。根据文章最后一段的最后两句话可知老师重视学生基本技能是正确的做法,但如果老师首先关注的是学生表达的内容,更有利于增强学生提高写作的动力,由此可知与学生基本技能相比,老师应该更关注学生思想的表达,故选项C为正确答案。
选项A(鼓励学生在写作时用自己会拼写的单词)不符合文意;选项B(只关注学生写作中的思想内容)和选项D(提高对学生拼写错误的注意)这两个方面均过于片面,不符合最后一段中表达的内容,故以上选项均不正确。
单选题 The passage is mainly concerned with ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】主旨大意题。本题询问这篇文章主要是关于什么内容的。本文主要讲了学生的拼写问题,包括家长对拼写问题的看法、老师只关注学生拼写错误所导致的后果等,故选项C为正确答案。
选项A(老师的重要性)和选项B(如何写文章)在文中没有涉及,故不选。使用字典的重要性虽在第二段最后一句有所涉及,但不是文章的主要内容,故选项D(使用字典的重要性)不正确。