四級考試閱讀理解技巧（三）
3.關于目的型
We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed -ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming( 把...按能力分班) pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!
Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to heir intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full , not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching con-tributes to all these aspects of learning.
In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to cooper-ate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher. Sometimes the pupils work in pairs`, sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work: it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.
The author's purpose in writing this passage is to________.
A) argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class
B) recommend pair work and group work for classroom activities
C) offer advice on the proper use of the library
D) emphasize the importance of appropriate formal classroom
本題要求學生首先了解這篇文章的主題。文章中討論了兩種上課的方式： stream1ng pupi1s即把學生按能力分班進行教學和mixed-ability teaching即把程度不齊的學生混班上課。并列舉了前者的弊端和后者的優(yōu)點。因此A）是答案。而選項出，B)，D）中提到的幾種做法均為mixed-abi1ity teaching的具體做法，都不能看作是作者寫這篇文章的目的。這一題要求閱讀時不但要看懂個別的句子，而且要能夠根據作者思路的展開，把握作者在整篇文章中贊成什么反對什么，因此，必須看懂全篇文章的意思.
