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Unit 2  English around the world

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to pre­school children.But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.

The two­year study compared children who were read in this way in class with children who were not.Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading，spelling and understanding.These results were found one year and even two years later.

Shayne Piasta，an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University，was an author of the study.She says most pre­school teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they teach.They already read storybooks in class.The only difference would be increased attention to the printed text.“If you get children to pay attention to letters and words，it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.”But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic way.

More than 300 children aged four and five were observed  in classrooms.They came from poor families and were below average in their language skills.For thirty weeks，the children took part in a program called Project STAR—Sit Together and Read.The project is based at Ohio State.It tests the short­term and long­term results of reading regularly to pre­school children in their classrooms.

There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print.They can point to a letter and discuss it，and even trace the shape with a finger.They can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story.And they can talt the organization of the print－for instance，showing how words are written left to right in English.

【文章大意】　给学龄前儿童读书时，很多老师和父母关注的是图画，但研究表明，此时教孩子关注图片旁的单词更有利于培养孩子的拼写、阅读和理解的技能，而且老师只需稍微调整教学方式，就能做到。

1．What do we know about the ways pre­school children are usually taught?

A．Preference is given to the shape of letters and the organization of the print.

B．More attention is paid to the pictures，with words and letters being ignored.

C．The focus of the teaching is on bringing them up to be good readers.

D．Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures.

解析：选B。细节理解题。第一段说老师和家长在给学龄前儿童读故事书的时候通常只注重图画，但一项新的研究表明，关注书页上的字母和单词能更好地培养孩子们的阅读能力，由此可推断B项正确。

2．What does Shayne Piasta suggest pre­school teachers should do in class?

A．Teach children how to draw pictures to get an idea of what they mean.

B．Adopt different methods according to the students’ difference in reading skills.

C．Change the way they teach and pay more attention to words and letters.

D．Read storybooks to children rather than explain the meaning of the pictures.

解析：选C。推理判断题。由第三段中的“would need only a small change in the way they teach”和“If you get children to pay attention to letters and words...word recognition and spelling.”可知，C项正确。

3．Which of the following is true about the study on language skills of pre­school children?

A．Many teachers want to change their way of teaching pre­school children.

B．Attention on the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading.

C．Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching.

D．Project STAR aims to research into the results of reading books to pre­school children in the classroom.

解析：选D。细节理解题。从第四段可知，STAR这一项目的目的是检测给学龄前儿童在课堂上定期阅读的短期和长期效果，因此选D。

4．Which section of a magazine does the passage probably come from?

A．Fashion.　　　　　　　　　    B．Economy.

C．Education.                                 D．Entertainment.

解析：选C。文章出处题。文章主要讲述了一项关于学龄前儿童教育研究的新发现，故最可能出现在教育这一版块。

B

(创新题)Good news about news

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