单选题
So long as teachers fail to distinguish between
teaching and learning, they will continue toundertake to do for children
that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children toread is not
passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in
activities aboutreading. Douglas insists that "reading cannot be taught directly
and schools should stop trying todo 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 forchildren to devise the most efficient system for
teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a pub-lic activity: It can be seen
and observed. Learning to read involves all that each
individual does to make sense of the world of printedlanguage. Ahnost all of it
is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process isnot
open to public scrutiny. If teacher and learner roles are not
interchangeable, what then can be done through teachingthat will aid the child
in the quest (探索) for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for allteaching
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 andlearner fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and
feeling of failure for both is elim-inated. Learning to read is made easier when
teachers create an environment where children aregiven 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______
A. it is one of the most diffieuh school courses
B. students spend endless hours in reading
C. reading tasks are assigned with little guidance
D. too much time is spent in teaching about reading
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 参见文章第1段第4行。
单选题
The teaching of reading will be successful if______
A. teachers can improve conditions at school for the students
B. teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading
C. teachers can devise the most efficient system for reading
D. teachers can make their teaching activities observable
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 依据文章第2段第2行开始，B项符合其意思。
单选题
The word "scrutiny" (Line 3, Para. 3) most probably means
A. inquiry
B. observation
C. control
D. suspicion
【正确答案】
B
【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 puhlic scrutiny。而最明显的提示出现在第2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______
A. children become highly motivated
B. teacher and learner roles are interchangeable
C. teaching helps children in the search for knowledge
D. reading enriches children' s experience
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 依据文章第4段、第5段所提供的信息，特别是第5段第3行。
单选题
The main idea of the passage is that______
A. teachers should do as little as possible in helping students learn to
read
B. teachers should encourage students to read as widely as possible
C. reading ability is something acquired rather than taught
D. reading is more complicated than generally believed