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【題目】So long as teachers fail to distinguish betweenteaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for what only children can do forthemselves. 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 andschools should stop trying to do 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 for childrento devise the most efficient system for teachingthemselves to read. Teaching is also a publicactivity: It can be seen and observed.

Learning to read involves all that each individualdoes not make sense of the world of printedlanguage. Almost all of it is private, for learningis 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 teaching will aid the child inknowledge. Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. "Make learning to readeasy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children."

When the roles of teacher and learner are seen forwhat they are, and when both teacher and learner fulfill them appropriately, then much of thepressure and feeling of failure for both iseliminated. Learning to read is made easier whenteachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem oflearning to read by reading.

【1】The problem with the reading course as mentionedin the first paragraph is that____.

A. it is one of the most difficult 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 of reading

【2】The word "scrutiny"（Para.3） most probably means____.

A. inquiry B. observation

C. control D. suspect

【3】The main idea of the passage is that ____.

A. teachers should do as little as possible inhelping students learn to read

B. teachers should encourage students to read aswidely as possible

C. reading ability is something acquired rather thantaught

D. reading is more complicated than generallybelieved

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】C

【解析】文章談?wù)摰氖且粋�(gè)教育問題�，F(xiàn)在的教學(xué)中，大量的時(shí)間被用于教學(xué)生如何閱讀。然而，閱讀能力并不是通過老師講授給學(xué)生的，而是學(xué)生自己通過努力習(xí)得的。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段內(nèi)容“It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading.”可知，太多的時(shí)間被用于教學(xué)生如何閱讀，故選D。

【2】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)第二段和第三段的內(nèi)容“Teaching is also public activity. It can be seen and observed. ...Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny.”可知，教學(xué)是一個(gè)公開的活動(dòng)，而學(xué)習(xí)則屬于私人活動(dòng)，它在一個(gè)人的內(nèi)心進(jìn)行，學(xué)習(xí)的過程不是公開的，因此不能被觀察，故選B。

【3】主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一段“they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves ...reading cannot be taught directly”和最后一段“Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of leaning to read by reading.”可知，閱讀能力不是教會(huì)的，而是學(xué)生自己通過努力習(xí)得的，故選C。