Question

　　So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. 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 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 sys-tem for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a public activity: it can be seen and ob-served.

　　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 roles of teacher and learner are not inter-changeable, 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 teachers and learners are seen for what they are, and when both teachers and learners fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of learning to read by reading.

(1) The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the paragraph is that ________.

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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

(2) The teaching of reading will be successful if ________.

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A．teachers can improve conditions at school for the students

B．teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading

C．teachers can devise the most efficient sys-tem for reading

D．too much time is spent in teaching activities observable

(3) The word“scrutiny”(Line 5 Para. 3) most probably means ________.

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A．inquiry

B．observation

C．control

D．suspicion

(4) The main idea of the passage is that ________.

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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

Answer 1

答案：D;B;B;C
解析：

(1) D (2) B；逻辑推断题。参见第二段第三句话。 (3) B；词义猜测题。第二段指出“Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes.”。不同在于：Teaching is also a public activity: it can be seen and observed. …is private…and that process is not open to public scrutiny.对比二者可以知道public scrutiny意思是public observation. (4) C；主旨归纳题。本题主旨意在强调“reading cannot be taught directly and schools…”。