阅读理解 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. 7he 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 ob served. 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 serum. If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest 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 ______

单选题 The teaching of reading will be successful if ______

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】第二段第三句话"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．”讲的是阅读的作用，即只要阅读起到这个作用就是成功的。那就是为学生们创造一个环境和条件，让他们自己想出一种培养阅读能力的有效办法。所以，[D]符合此意。

单选题 The underlined word "scrutiny" (Para. 3 ) most probably means______ .

单选题 According to the passage, learning to read will no longer be a difficult task when ______

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】文章最后一句"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．”指出学生通过阅读拥有了解决阅读能力的机会，那么学会阅读就变得比较容易。四个选项中只有[D]与之最接近，故为正确答案。

单选题 The main idea of the passage is that ______

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】根据第一段中的“reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible．”和第二段中"The function of teaching is to create conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read．”我们可以作出判断，即阅读能力并非通过老师的教授获得，教师的作用是为学生创造一个环境和条件，让他们自己找出学会阅读的最有效的办法。也就是说，阅读能力是获得的，而不是教出来的，这也是文章的中心思想，故 [B]是正确答案。