单选题 {{B}}Directions:{{/B}} This part is to test your reading ability.
There are 5 tasks for you to fulfill. You should read the reading material
carefully and do the tasks as you are instructed. {{B}}Task
1{{/B}} {{B}}Directions:{{/B}}After reading the following passage, you
will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 to 40. For each
question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make
the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
single line through the center.
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 hiw 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?