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One topic is rarely mentioned in all the talk of improving standards in our schools: the almost complete failure of foreign-language teaching. As a French graduate who has taught for more than twenty-five years, I have some ___1_____ of why the failure is so total. 2 the faults already found out in the education system as a whole, there have been several serious 3 which have a direct effect on language teaching.
The first is the removal from the curriculum (课程) of the thorough teaching of English 4?????? . Pupils now do not know a verb from a noun or the subject of a sentence from its object.
Another important error is mixed-ability teaching, or teaching in ability groups so 5 that the most able groups are 6 and are bored while the least able are lost and 7 bored.
Progress depends on memory, and pupils start to forget immediately they stop having 8 lessons. This is why many people who attended French lessons at school have forgotten it a few years later.
Most American schools have accepted what is necessary and 9 modern languages, even Spanish, from the curriculum. Perhaps it is time for Britain to do the same, and stop 10 resources on a subject which few pupils want or need.
A. questions B. evidences C. ideas D. knowledges
A. Due to B. In addition to C. Instead of D. In spite of
A. errors B. situations C. systems D. methods
A. vocabulary B. culture C. grammar D. sentences
A. wide B. similar C. separate D. unique
A. kept out B. turned down C. held back D. left behind
A. surprisingl B. individually C. equally D. hardly
A. extra B. traditional C. basic D. regular
A. restored B. absorbed C. prohibited D. remove
A. wasting B. focusing C. exploiting D. sharing
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One topic is rarely mentioned in all the talk of improving standards in our schools: the almost complete failure of foreign-language teaching. As a French graduate who has taught for more than twenty-five years, I have some ___21_____ of why the failure is so total. 22 the faults already found out in the education system as a whole, there have been several serious 23 which have a direct effect on language teaching.
The first is the removal from the curriculum (课程) of the thorough teaching of English 24?????? . Pupils now do not know a verb from a noun or the subject of a sentence from its object.
Another important error is mixed-ability teaching, or teaching in ability groups so 25 that the most able groups are 26 and are bored while the least able are lost and 27 bored.
Progress depends on memory, and pupils start to forget immediately they stop having 28 lessons. This is why many people who attended French lessons at school have forgotten it a few years later.
Most American schools have accepted what is necessary and 29 modern languages, even Spanish, from the curriculum. Perhaps it is time for Britain to do the same, and stop 30 resources on a subject which few pupils want or need.
21. A. question B. evidence C. idea D. knowledge
22. A. Due to B. In addition to C. Instead of D. In spite of
23. A. errors B. situations C. systems D. methods
24. A. vocabulary B. culture C. grammar D. sentences
25. A. wide B. similar C. separate D. unique
26. A. kept out B. turned down C. held back D. left behind
27. A. surprisingly B. individually C. equally D. hardly
28. A. extra B. traditional C. basic D. regular
29. A. restored B. absorbed C. prohibited D. remove
30. A. wasting B. focusing C. exploiting D. sharing
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