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.

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, if 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】

【3】C

【4】B

【5】D

【6】A

【解析】

試題分析:本文是一篇應(yīng)用文。介紹閱讀過(guò)程中，可分為兩種活動(dòng)，一類是默讀，另一類是大聲朗讀。大聲朗讀比默讀更難，大聲朗讀不僅需要看文本，理解還需要讀出來(lái)，過(guò)程比默讀更復(fù)雜。

【3】C主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一段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.可知本篇文章主要講的是閱讀過(guò)程，故選C。

【4】B詞義推測(cè)題。根據(jù)第三段and make mistakes when reading aloud in our own language,可以判斷stumble和make mistakes 是近義詞，在閱讀過(guò)程中會(huì)出現(xiàn)錯(cuò)誤，故選B。

【4】D推測(cè)判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段When we read for meaning, we do not need to read every letter or every word, nor even every word in each sentence.可知當(dāng)我們?yōu)榱死斫忾喿x時(shí)，不用讀出每一個(gè)單詞，由此推測(cè)下文會(huì)解釋原因。故選D。

【6】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段it is a much more difficult activity than reading silently.可知大聲閱讀比默讀要難。故選A。