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The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic aud
The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic aud
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问题
The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High school English teachers are not doing their jobs". He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established.
My topic is not standards nor its decline. What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer youngs he has been teaching for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult.
My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies. But since then, English teachers have been under constant attack.
The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate.
Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today’s young people, it naturally follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs. Otherwise, young people would not commit offenses against the language.
选项
A、the language of the younger generation is usually inferior to that of the older generation
B、the students had a poor command of English because they didn’t work hard enough
C、he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen years
D、English teachers should be held responsible for the students’ poor command of English
答案
D
解析
细节题。本题询问的是作者在文中提到的演讲人的观点。文章第一段中演讲人直接说到"high school English teachers are not doing their jobs",这就意味着演讲人认为英语教师应对学生较差的英语水平负责,故选项D为正确答案。作者在对演讲人的演讲进行议论时首先指出:演讲人已有16年的教学经验,是个成熟的成年人;然后作者指出上一代人对下一代人的抱怨是不可避免的,但现在的成年人没有意识到他们自己的语言水平是多年发展积累的结果,他们认为当今年轻人的英语不可救药。最后作者指出人们并不把对学生英语水平下降的担心看做是时常发生的两代人之间的矛盾,而把它看做是今天一代年轻人特有的缺陷,这样人们自然会说今天的英语教师不胜任。由此可见认为青年一代的英语通常比成年人差是作者的议论中隐含的观点,而这并非是演讲人的观点,故选项A不是正确答案。文章虽提到了学生语言水平差一事,但并未指出原因是学习不刻苦,故选项B不是正确答案。文中虽然提到演讲人从教16年,但并未指出他是个极优秀的语言教师,故选项C不是正确答案。
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