Question

This brief book is aimed at high school students, but speaks to anyone learning at any stage of life．

       Its formal, serious style closely matches its content, a school-masterly book on schooling．The author, W．H．Armstrong, starts with the basics: reading and writing．In his opinion, reading doesn’t just mean recognizing each word on the page; it means taking in the information, digesting it and incorporating it into oneself just as one digests a sandwich and makes it a part of himself．The goal is to bring the information back to life, not just to treat it as dead facts on paper from dead trees．Reading and writing cannot be completely separated from each other; in fact, the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text．I’ve seen it again and again：some-one who can’t express an idea after reading a text is just as ineffective as someone who hasn’t read it at all．

Only a third of the book remains after that discussion, which Armstrong devotes to specific tips for studying languages, math, science and history．He generally handles these topics thoroughly and equally, except for some weakness in the science and math sections and a bit too much passion regarding history to his students, that was a hundred times more than my history teachers ever got across．To my disappointment, in this part of the book he ignores the arts．As a matter of fact, they demand all the concentration and study that math and science do, though the study differs slightly in kind．Although it’s commonly believed that the arts can only be naturally acquired, actually, learning the arts is no more natural than learning French or mathematics．

My other comment is that the text aged．The first edition apparently dates to the 1960s—none of the references seem newer than the late 1950s．As a result, the discussion misses the entire computer age．

These are small points, though, and don’t affect the main discussion．I recommend it to any student and any teacher, including the self-taught student．

1.According to Armstrong, the goal of reading is to________

A．gain knowledge and expand one’s view

B．understand the meaning between the lines

C．express ideas based on what one has read

D．get information and keep it alive in memory

2.What is a shortcoming of Armstrong’s work according to the author?

A．Some ideas are slightly contradictory

B．There is too much discussion on studying science

C．The style is too serious

D．It lacks new information

3.This Passage can be classified as________．

A．a(chǎn)n advertisement        B．a(chǎn) book review

C．a(chǎn) feature story    D．A news report

4.Which of the following words can best describe the author’s attitude towards the book________

A．positive           B．neutral         C．negative        D．objective

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了作者對作家Armstrong寫的作品進行的評論。作者認為Armstrong的書內容嚴謹，密切圍繞如何學習展開的，其話題有些是關于閱讀與寫作。Armstrong的三分之一的作品是對學習語言，數(shù)學，科學和歷史作專門的建議。作者雖然認為Armstrong的作品歷史久遠，缺少新的信息，但是仍然覺得非常有用，要向學生大力推薦。

1.細節(jié)理解題。第二段的the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text閱讀的目的是表達你從文章里獲得信息，故選C。

2.推理判斷題。第四段的The first edition apparently dates to the 1960s—none of the references seem newer than the late 1950s第一個版本顯然要追溯到1960年代似乎沒有比二十世紀五十年代年代末的引用更新，體現(xiàn)出Armstrong’s work年代較久遠，所以缺少新信息。故選D。

3.推理判斷題。第四段的My other comment is that the text aged我的其他評論是文本的年齡�？膳袛啾疚闹凶髡邔�Armstrong’s work進行評論。Book review書評。故選B。

4.作者態(tài)度題。最后一段的I recommend it to any student and any teacher,作者向老師和學生推薦這本書，可以看出作者對這本書是肯定的。故選A。

考點：教育類短文閱讀。