Question

Recently a group of second-graders visited our school library to work on a “holidays around the world” project. The children created pictures showing holiday customs and then created voice recordings explaining what they drew.    1.    Now imagine taking things one step further and creating Podcasts in a classroom setting.

The term Podcast refers to an audio recording, linked to the Web, that can be downloaded to a personal MP3 player. The word is created from broadcast and from iPod—the wildly popular MP3 player from Apple.

Using audio with students isn’t new, of course. Teachers have used audiobooks at listening centers and recorded student voice on tape or CD for many years.    2.    Podcasts, however, can reach a much wider audience in a time frame outside the school days. Booktalking, an old way of getting kids excited about books, gets a tech assistance with Podcasting. Students can do some booktalking themselves; book review Podcasts seem to be another natural way for students to share what they know, providing an alternative to the book report.

  3.   Teachers made audio Podcasts, including visuals or video clips for any content area instruction and review. Some teachers have begun to record themselves teaching important concepts; this creates an account of information online for kids to access when they’re stuck on a homework assignment.   4.    Imagine being a classroom teacher in September who can actually hear how his or her students were reading in June the school year before.

You don’t need an iPod to make a Podcast.    5.   While an MP3 player is a popular and useful gadget, your audience doesn’t need MP3 players to listen, either. Your students and their families can use the computer to play back what you’ve recorded.

A. Audio and video files can also function as assessment tools.

B. It is clearly showed in the incident that student-created voice recordings are effective.

C. Podcasting is of vital importance to the classroom setting.

D. Podcasting is used for various excellent reasons.

E. You can make a Podcast if you have a computer, a microphone, and some free software.

F. Podcasting needs a variety of devices.

G. Voice and music have been seen as the original media for teaching.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.G

3.D

4.A

5.E

【解析】

試題分析：本文介紹了播客在教學(xué)中的使用。從最初教師們使用音樂幫助教學(xué)到使用錄音和CD等音頻文件，然后到現(xiàn)在的播客，音頻文件和視頻文件作為一種教學(xué)手段起著非常重要的作用。作者同時指出對于播客的制作也非常簡單，只要有電腦，有麥克風(fēng)再使用某種軟件即可。

1.B考查上下文的推理判斷能力。上文提到created voice recordings孩子們對圖片配音，然后說要taking things one step further進一步在教學(xué)中使用播客，由此可知這是上件事帶來的影響，而B選項內(nèi)容講述孩子們圖片配音的良好效果，恰好起到承接上下文的作用，所以B選項正確。

2.G考查上下文的推理判斷能力。上句講述教師們多年來都在教學(xué)中使用聲音文件，而G選項內(nèi)容也是有關(guān)語音和音樂在教學(xué)中的使用的，所以G符合語境。

3.D考查上下文的推理判斷能力。從for any content area instruction and review.和 teaching important concepts可知本段內(nèi)容都是關(guān)于教師使用Podcasting的目的或者說使用原因，所以此空選D。

4.A考查上下文的推理判斷能力。根據(jù)上下文內(nèi)容可知此處仍然介紹podcasting的使用情況，音頻和視頻文件，也可以作為評估工具，所以A選項正確。

5.E考查上下文的推理判斷能力。從上句You don’t need an iPod to make a Podcast.可知此處是講述podcast的制作，而E選項內(nèi)容恰好能承接上文，介紹可以使用電腦、麥克風(fēng)和一些軟件來制作Podcast，所以E選項正確。

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