Question

【題目】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】

試題分析：本文講的是作者認(rèn)為提高閱讀技巧就要了解閱讀的過(guò)程，閱讀主要分為兩種：朗讀和默讀。作者主要列舉了朗讀的缺點(diǎn)，以及默讀的一些優(yōu)點(diǎn)。最后得出默讀更加簡(jiǎn)單有效。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文中第一段中it is important to understand what is involved in the reading process itself.培養(yǎng)外語(yǔ)的閱讀技巧更重要的是理解閱讀過(guò)程，所以本文主要講的是閱讀過(guò)程而不是閱讀技巧。故選C

【2】詞義猜測(cè)題。文中說(shuō)we often stumble and make mistakes when reading aloud in our own language,我們用自己的語(yǔ)言大聲朗讀的時(shí)候經(jīng)常會(huì)犯錯(cuò)誤，這里的stumble與犯錯(cuò)誤是并列結(jié)構(gòu)，所以這里表達(dá)的意思是一直重復(fù)或停頓太久，另stumble的意思為“躊躇，猶豫不定”，故選B

【3】推理分析題。題目：推理作者接下來(lái)會(huì)繼續(xù)講些什么？從文中的最后一段可以看出作者認(rèn)為閱讀的時(shí)候想要理解文章的涵義不需要逐字逐句地閱讀，因此作者接下來(lái)很可能會(huì)解釋一下原因。故選D.

【4】細(xì)節(jié)分析題。文章將大聲朗讀與默讀作比較，第三段著重講述了大聲朗讀的缺點(diǎn)，最后總結(jié)了默讀的優(yōu)點(diǎn)是不需要逐字朗讀就可以很好的體會(huì)文章的意思，因此默讀更加容易，故選A