新東方：英語四級考試閱讀30天學習筆記

　　注：文章第二段，該詞出現(xiàn)在第一句，解釋答案在第二句�？嫉檬莾删潢P系

　　23. Teachers encourage the use of dictionaries so that _________

　　A) students will be able to express their ideas more freely

　　B) teachers will have less trouble in correcting mistakes

　　C) students will have more confidence in writing

　　D) students will learn to be independent of teachers

　　注：文章第二段，B,D 選項文章未提到，可排除。定位此段末句，選擇A項

　　I was once shocked to read on the bottom of a

　　sensitive piece of writing about a personal experience: "This work is terrible! There are far too many spelling errors and your writing is illegible (難以辨認的)." It may have been a sharp criticism of the pupil's technical abilities in writing, but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omitted to read the essay, which contained some beautiful expressions of the child's deep feelings. The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors, but if his priorities had centered on the child's ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the presentation would have given the pupil more motivation (動力) to seek improvement.

　　注：1.shock 震驚

　　2.omit 省略

　　3.作者對作文評語的負評價，but 及虛擬語氣可以表明作者的態(tài)度。

　　24. The writer seems to think that the teacher's judgement on that sensitive piece of writing is ____________.

　　A) reasonable B) unfair

　　C) foolish D) careless

　　注：作者持負態(tài)度，所以選擇B

　　21. Teachers are different in their opinions about _______

　　A) the difficulties in teaching spelling

　　B) the role of spelling in general language development

　　C) the complexities of the basic writing skills

　　D) the necessity of teaching spelling

　　注：文章第一段，role 對應文章中的 priority

　　There is a popular belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling. No school I have taught in has ever ignored spelling or considered it unimportant as a basic skill. There are, however, vastly different ideas about how to teach it, or how much priority (優(yōu)先) it must be given over general language development and writing ability. The problem is, how to encourage a child to express himself freely and confidently in writing without holding him back with the complexities of spelling?

　　25. The major point discussed in the passage is ________

　　A) the importance of developing writing skills

　　B) the complexities of spelling

　　C) the correct way of marking compositions

　　D) the relationship between spelling and the content of a composition

　　注：主題題，D 選項是對主題句的同義改寫

　　There is a popular belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling. No school I have taught in has ever ignored spelling or considered it unimportant as a basic skill. There are, however, vastly different ideas about how to teach it, or how much priority (優(yōu)先) it must be given over general language development and writing ability. The problem is, how to encourage a child to express himself freely and confidently in writing without holding him back with the complexities of spelling?