单选题 The aim of the teacher is to get his pupils as quickly as possible over the period in which each printed symbol (符号) is looked at for its shape, and arrive at the stage when the pupils look at words and phrases for their meaning, almost without noticing the shapes of the separate letters.
When a good reader is at work, he does not look at letters, nor even at words, one by one, however quickly; he takes in the meaning of two, three, or four words at a time, in a single moment. Watch carefully the eyes of a good reader who is reading, and it will be seen that they do not travel smoothly along the lines of print, but they move by jumps separated by very short stops. The eyes of a very good reader move quickly, taking long jumps and making very short pauses; the eyes of a poor reader move more slowly, taking only short jumps and stopping longer at each pause. Sometimes, when he meets difficulty, he even goes backwards to see again what has already been looked at before.
The teacher's task is therefore clear: it is to train his pupils to take in several words at a glance (one "eye-jump") and to remove the necessity for going backwards to read something a second time.
This shows at once that letter-by-letter, or word-by-word reading, with the finger pointing to the word, carefully fixing each one in turn, is wrong. It is wrong because such a method ties the pupil's eyes down to a very short jump, and the aim is to train for the long jump. Moreover, a very short jump is too short to provide any meaning or sense; and it will be found that having struggled with three or four words separately, the pupil has to look at them again, all together and in one group, in order to get the meaning of the whole phrase.

单选题 According to the passage, the aim of the teacher is to ______.
A. train his pupils to reach quickly the stage of reading without having to concentrate on the separate symbols
B. help his pupils look at each printed symbol for its meaning as well as for its shape
C. help his pupils avoid taking long jumps and making short pauses while they are trying to get the meaning of what they are reading
D. tell his pupils different reading stages, of which the first one is to recognize the separate printed symbols

单选题 A good reader usually reads several ______ in a single moment.
A. letters B. words C. sentences D. lines

单选题 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. The eyes of a good reader make long pauses.
B. The eyes of a good reader take long jumps.
C. The eyes of a poor reader take short jumps.
D. The eyes of a poor reader stop longer at each pause.

单选题 Reading with the finger pointing to the word ______.
A. helps the pupil understand the words in groups and get the meaning of the whole passage
B. removes the necessity for going backwards to read something a second time
C. helps the pupil move his eyes back and forth easily when he meets difficulty
D. limits the pupil's eyes to a very short jump which is too short to provide any meaning

单选题 The last paragraph indicates a poor reader may have to read something a second time because ______.
A. he has enough time
B. he reads too fast
C. he doesn't get its meaning
D. the passage he is reading is very long