問題詳情：
How do young people learn best? This is something I think about a lot when teaching foreign languages to young people. I often find that traditional teaching methods are neither always effective nor interesting for young bruins to learn a foreign language.
After moving to southern Italy I was lucky to have had the chance to run a private course teaching English to under 7-year-olds. I was aware that children liked to sing and enjoyed games so I wanted to use these tools to help my students develop English conversation skills. I found some fun and easy songs online, which they loved. I also found the English versions of some nursery rhymes they recognized. All of them were very interesting and helpful But students could still not have a basic conversation in English.
I knew I wanted these guys to he fully immersed in the language I was teaching and I also wonted them to speak it. I was keen to give 90% of my lessons in English but I knew it’d be difficult to get them to speak in a foreign language they have little or zero exposure to outside our lessons, so I had to come up with a simple yet effective plan.
One day I decided to prepare a simple dialogue in English, so that I could get them to sing and chant (有節奏地反覆地唱) it, rather than simply getting students to repeat the phrases. I discovered that chanting some conversational sentences was the way to get students to speak in English — it worked!
So when teaching English to young people now, I encourage them to make up their own songs and chants to help them remember expressions or complex sentences.
55．What is the passage mainly talking about?
A．How to make young learners like a foreign language.
B．How to teach foreign languages to young people.
C．How to run a private course in southern Italy.
D．How to help the younger children with studies.
56．What does the underlined word “immersed” mean in the 3rd paragraph?
A．Amused B．Buried
C．Retaled D．Informed
57．How did the author feel when faced with difficulty in teaching?
A．He found it impossible to teach children with little English.
B．He tried to be a patient and responsible teacher.
C．He realized he was unable to finish the task of teaching.
D．He actually kind of discouraged and disappointed.
58．What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Mistakes are an important part of education.
B．A teacher can never tell where his influence stops.
C．A teacher should understand his students’ needs.
D．Confidence is the first step on the way to success.
【回答】
55．B
56．B
57．B
58．C
【分析】
這是一篇記敍文。短文敍述了作者搬到意大利南部時，在教學過程中，作者發現用唱歌的方式學習一門語言會使學習者有效地掌握這門語言。
55．主旨大意題。通過全文可知，短文敍述了作者搬到意大利南部時，在教學過程中，作者發現用唱歌的方式學習一門語言會使年輕的學習者更加有效地掌握這門語言。所以判斷出短這篇文章主要講的是如何教年輕人學習外語。故B選項正確。
56．詞義猜測題。由第二段“ I was aware that children liked to sing and enjoyed games so I wanted to use these tools to help my students develop English conversation skills. I found some fun and easy songs online, which they loved”可知，我知道孩子們喜歡唱歌，喜歡玩遊戲，所以我想用這些工具幫助我的學生提高英語會話技能。我在網上找到了一些他們喜歡的有趣而簡單的歌曲。所以作者想盡辦法讓孩子們對英語感興趣，開發孩子們用英語交流的能力，所以判斷出作者希望孩子們完全專注於他所教的英語課程。故劃線的“immersed”在第三段的意思是 be buried in “專心於”中的“ buried”的意思。故B選項正確。
57．推理判斷題。由第三段“... so I had to come up with a simple yet effective plan.”可知，所以我必須想出一個簡單而有效的計劃。所以面對學習英語有困難的孩子們，作者尋找更有效的辦法。故可以判斷出作者是一個有耐心、負責任的老師。故B選項正確。
58．推理判斷題。由倒數第二段“One day I decided to prepare a simple dialogue in English, so that I could get them to sing and chant (有節奏地反覆地唱) it, rather than simply getting students to repeat the phrases. I discovered that chanting some conversational sentences was the way to get students to speak in English — it worked!”可知，有一天，我決定準備一個簡單的英語對話，這樣我就可以讓他們唱和有節奏地反覆地唱，而不是讓學生簡單地重複這些短語。我發現，有節奏地反覆地唱一些對話句子是讓學生説英語的方法——它奏效了！所以，作者根據年幼孩子的特點制訂了適合他們學習英語的方法而且取得了成功。故推斷出老師應理解學生的需求，因材施教，才能達到好的效果。故C選項正確。
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