Question

【题目】If we are to help students develop reading skills in a foreign language, it is important to understand what is involved in the reading process itself. If we have a clear idea of how “good readers” read, either in their own or a foreign language, this will enable us to decide whether particular reading techniques are likely to help learners or not.

In considering the reading process, it is important to distinguish between two quite separate activities: reading for meaning (or “silent reading”) and reading aloud. Reading for meaning is the activity we normally engage in when we read books, newspapers, road signs, etc.; it is what you are doing as you read this text. It involves looking at sentences and understanding the message they convey, in other words “making sense” of a written text. It doesn’t normally involve saying the words we read, not even silently inside our heads; there are important reasons for this, which are outlined below.

Reading aloud is a completely different activity; its purpose is not just to understand a text but to convey the information to someone else. It is not an activity we engage in very often outside the classroom; common examples are reading out parts of a newspaper article to a friend, or reading a notice to other people who can’t see it. Obviously, reading aloud involves looking at a text, understanding it and also saying it. Because our attention is divided between reading and speaking, it is a much more difficult activity than reading silently; we often stumble and make mistakes when reading aloud in our own language, and reading aloud in a foreign language is even more difficult.

When we read for meaning, we do not need to read every letter or every word, nor even every word in each sentence. This is because, provided the text makes sense, we can guess much of what it says as we read it.

【1】The passage is mainly about ____________.

A. reading skills B. silent reading

C. reading processes D. reading aloud

【2】The underlined word “stumble” in Paragraph 3 means ____________.

A. step over something and fall

B. repeat something or pause for too long

C. walk with heavy movements

D. speak in a fluent and confident way

【3】 We can infer from the passage that the author will continue to ____________.

A. discuss in detail how to read aloud

B. introduce some more reading activities

C. tell how good readers read in their own language

D. explain why we needn’t say the words when reading for meaning

【4】 We can conclude that ____________.

A. reading silently is easier than reading aloud

B. to understand a sentence, you have to read all the words in it

C. silent reading involves looking at a text and saying the words silently to yourself

D. there’s no difference between reading in one’s own language and in a foreign one

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】D

【4】A

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲的是作者认为提高阅读技巧就要了解阅读的过程，阅读主要分为两种：朗读和默读。作者主要列举了朗读的缺点，以及默读的一些优点。最后得出默读更加简单有效。

【1】细节理解题。从文中第一段中it is important to understand what is involved in the reading process itself.培养外语的阅读技巧更重要的是理解阅读过程，所以本文主要讲的是阅读过程而不是阅读技巧。故选C

【2】词义猜测题。文中说we often stumble and make mistakes when reading aloud in our own language,我们用自己的语言大声朗读的时候经常会犯错误，这里的stumble与犯错误是并列结构，所以这里表达的意思是一直重复或停顿太久，另stumble的意思为“踌躇，犹豫不定”，故选B

【3】推理分析题。题目：推理作者接下来会继续讲些什么？从文中的最后一段可以看出作者认为阅读的时候想要理解文章的涵义不需要逐字逐句地阅读，因此作者接下来很可能会解释一下原因。故选D.

【4】细节分析题。文章将大声朗读与默读作比较，第三段着重讲述了大声朗读的缺点，最后总结了默读的优点是不需要逐字朗读就可以很好的体会文章的意思，因此默读更加容易，故选A