Question

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

The two-year study compared（比较）children who were read to this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the words showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding.

Shayne Piasta, a professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, says most preschool teachers 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 words.

Ms. Piasta says if you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word spelling. But she says studies show that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic（系统的）way.

They watched more than three hundred children aged four and five in classrooms in Ohio and Virginia. The children came from poor families and were poor in their language skills. They may become bad readers when they enter primary schools later.

Professor Justice says children’s language skills can be improved by discussing with him or her when you are reading a book to a child. There are different ways that adults can talk to children about the letters and words on the page. They can point to a word and discuss the shape of it with a finger. They can point out a word: “This is ‘dog’.” They can discuss the meaning of the word or how the words tell the story. And they can also show how words are written left to right in English.

1.What does the underlined phrase “it makes sense” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. It can be understood and agreed.

B. It is impossible to happen.

C. It can be difficult to imagine and describe.

D. It is surprising to see.

2.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Parents are more important than teachers for little children.

B. Teachers need to learn a lot to use the new teaching way.

C. It’s impossible for preschool children to understand words.

D. Skills are important to children’s reading development.

3.The writer wants to tell us that _________.

A. preschool children should have higher discussing skills

B. parents should make a plan to teach their children reading

C. teachers should help children pay attention to printed words

D. languages skills should be discussed with preschool children

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.C

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文的作者想要告诉我们，老师和家长通常让幼儿园的孩子看图。但是研究表明，看文字可能会更好。经过对看文字和不看文字阅读的孩子的为期两年的比较发现，那些通过文字来阅读的孩子表现出更好的读写和理解能力。

1. sense“理解；明白；意识到”是固定搭配，故选A。

2. preschool teachers would need only a small change in the way they teach.及最后一段大意可知技巧对孩子认字是很重要的。故选D。

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考点：教育类阅读