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【题目】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

【答案】

【3】C

【4】B

【5】D

【6】A

【解析】

试题分析:本文是一篇应用文。介绍阅读过程中，可分为两种活动，一类是默读，另一类是大声朗读。大声朗读比默读更难，大声朗读不仅需要看文本，理解还需要读出来，过程比默读更复杂。

【3】C主旨大意题。根据第一段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.可知本篇文章主要讲的是阅读过程，故选C。

【4】B词义推测题。根据第三段and make mistakes when reading aloud in our own language,可以判断stumble和make mistakes 是近义词，在阅读过程中会出现错误，故选B。

【4】D推测判断题。根据最后一段When we read for meaning, we do not need to read every letter or every word, nor even every word in each sentence.可知当我们为了理解阅读时，不用读出每一个单词，由此推测下文会解释原因。故选D。

【6】A细节理解题。根据第二段it is a much more difficult activity than reading silently.可知大声阅读比默读要难。故选A。