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Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using the approaches taken by actors, and English teachers will be encouraged to let pupils walk around the classroom rather than read the plays while pupils are sitting at their desks.

Within the English curriculum(课程) you tend to look at a play text as a piece of literature rather than performance. But you can’t possibly understand Shakespeare’s language if you’re just reading it in your head. Shakespeare is difficult; it’s not a 21stcentury text. You have to use different ways to understand it.

The new teaching way focuses on how actors come to understand Shakespeare’s language. In fact actors have the same nervousness about Shakespeare’s language as young people in schools do. But in six to eight weeks they get to a place of complete confidence about the play. Pupils can do as well.

Exercises devised are to let children aged 11 to 14 imitate the methods of professional actors. Written and oral assessments developed alongside the lessons will show how well students have understood the texts.

In one task pupils will work on creating four key physical figures of king, warrior(勇士), lover and joker, finding which lines of their chosen character go with those features first and then acting them out. Through this they can examine how a character such as Macbeth can switch dramatically within one scene from soldier to kingly figure to trick planner. It’s really creative but you’re still getting a really wonderful model of understanding. It’s miles away from a “chalk and talk” method.

Educators think Shakespeare should be a central part of every young person’s education. Developing a love of Shakespeare at a young age often leads to a lifelong passion for literature and helps to improve a child’s reading and writing.

1.How will young people learn Shakespeare?

A.Reading them aloud.                     B.Reciting them.

C.Cooperating with actors.                  D.Acting them out.

2.You cannot understand Shakespeare’s words easily because________.

A.they are pieces of literature               B.their expressions are different

C.ordinary people cannot understand them     D.they are performances

3.The underlined sentence “It’s miles away from a ‘chalk and talk’ method.” In Paragraph 5 means_____.

A.Chalk and talk are far away from each other

B.It is much better than the traditional way

C.Chalk and talk are quite different

D.By chalk and talk we can understand Shakespeare

4.What’s the best title of the reading passage?

A.The New Approach to Shakespeare

B.The Introduction to Shakespeare

C.How to act Shakespeare’s plays

D.Shakespeare’s works in the English curriculum

 

【答案】

1.D

2.B

3.B

4.A

【解析】

试题分析:本文是一篇说明文,说明了十一岁学习莎士比亚使用演员的方法,英语教师让学生在教室里走来走去表演,而不是阅读。学习莎士比亚语言需要不同的方法,重点在于怎样让演员理解莎士比亚语言

1.细节题,由第一段第一行Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using the approaches taken by actors,可以知道答案,故选D。

2.推理题。由第二段倒数第二行Shakespeare is difficult; it’s not a 21stcentury text. You have to use different ways to understand it.可以推出答案,所以选B。

3.推理题,由第二段倒数第二行it’s not a 21stcentury text. You have to use different ways to understand it可以推出答案,所以选B

4.推理题,由文章的主要意思“使用新的方法学习莎士比亚语言”可以推出答案,所以选A

考点:本篇是一篇说明文

点评:做细节题的关键是找出原文的根据,认真核查题支和原文的异同,常犯错误有:绝对化语言,范围扩大或缩小,以偏概全,张冠李戴等。推断题测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力,要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系,对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断;或根据作者所阐述的观点理论,对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释。考生首先要仔细阅读短文,完整了解信息,准确把握作者观点。

 

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                         The 1900 house

  The bowler family was one of more than 400 families who applied to 1900 house, a reality TV shout which took a typical family back a hundred years to se how people lived in the days before the internet, computer games and even electricity.

  The bowler family spent three months in a London home without a telephone, computers, TV, or fast food. The bowlers wore clothes from 1900, are only food available in English at that time, and cooked their meals on a single stove. Paul bowler still went to work every day in a then uniform. The children changed their clothes on the way to and from school and their classmates didn’t know about then unusual home life. Joyce stayed at home, cooking and cleaning like a typical housewife of the time, though everything took three times as long.

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 “I think people in the old days had just ad many troubles and worries,” Joyce said.

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I’m happy I don’t have to deal with nowadays, but on the other hand life was simpler.” “We had a lot more time with our family, and it was hard being nice to each other all the time,” eleven-year-old Hilary said.

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