17.So long as teachers fail to tell teaching from learning,they will continue to undertake to do for children what children can do for themselves.Teaching children to read is not simply passing reading on to them.Certainly we shouldn't have spent endless hours 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.The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient(效率高的) system for teaching themselves to read.Teaching is also public activity.It can be seen and observed.
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 scrutiny.
If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable,what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest(探索)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(消除).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.Practice makes perfect,you know.
72.The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the first paragraph is thatD.
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 about reading
73.The underlined word"scrutiny"in the third paragraph probably means"B".
A.agreement B.observation
C.control D.distance
74.According to the passage,learning to read will no longer be a difficult task whenA.
A.children become very active in reading activities
B.teacher and learner roles are thought important
C.teaching helps children in the search for knowledge
D.reading enriches children's experience
75.The main idea of the passage is thatC.
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.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了作者认为阅读的能力是习得的而不是老师教的观点,当孩子对阅读活动有兴趣时,学习就变得简单了.
解答 72.D.细节理解题.根据文章第一段"Teaching children to read is not simply passing reading on to them.Certainly we shouldn't have spent endless hours in activities about reading"可知阅读的过程是花了太多时间在阅读的教学上;故选D.
73.B.词义推断题.根据文章第三段"Almost all of it is private,for learning is an occupation of the mind,and that process is not open to public scrutiny"句意为几乎所有的都是私人的,因为学习是一种思想的职业,而这个过程是不开放的,由此可知scrutiny是观察的意思,不开放的即不能让公众观察的;故选B.
74.A.推理判断题、根据文章最后一段"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"学习阅读变得比较容易,当老师创造一个环境,让儿童有机会解决学会阅读通过阅读问题,可知孩子对阅读活动有兴趣时,学习就变得简单了;故选A.
75.C.主旨大意题.通读全文,根据文章第一段""reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible"可知本文的主题是阅读的能力是习得的而不是老师教的;故选C.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.