76．The example of a Japanese student is given in the text to show that __________.

A．America is a dangerous country　　　　　 B．Americans are unfriendly to foreign students

C．Japanese students are inadequate in their English

D．misunderstandings can occur between foreign students and native speakers

D　 　

So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning , they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that“ reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible”.

　Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also public activity. It can be seen and observed.

　Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private ,for learning is an occupation of the mind ,and that process is not open to public scrutiny.

　If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable ,what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest(探索)for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. “Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children. ”

When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, and when both teacher fulfil them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of leaning to read by reading.

75．When Tony said that “they later got on like a house on fire”, most probably he meant __________.

A．Ali never touched the food his host cooked　　 B．Ali and his host later became close friends

C．Ali often quarreled with his host family　　 D．Ali left the host family and moved to live elsewhere

74．Ali didn’t eat the food in the host family because __________.

A．he didn’t get on well with his host　　 B．he couldn’t eat the meat served

C．he didn’t like the way it was cooked　 D．he couldn’t come back from school on time

73．We learn from the text that the problems foreign students have during their stay in England are mostly caused by ____.

A．their poor English level　　　　 B．the British way of cooking

C．their unfamiliarity with the British culture

D．their misunderstanding of British families’ attitudes towards them

72. Lateral thinking refers to the following EXCEPT_________.

A.　　 seeing the implications of what you are saying　 B. exploring the alternatives for what you are saying

C.　 improving one’s logic in thinking　　　　　　 D. improving one’s perception in thinking

C

As thousands of overseas students do battle with the English language in schools across the UK, many face a struggle with a culture for which they are totally unprepared. Misunderstandings can occur, which, if not sorted out, can ruin a student’s trip.

Much of this is a result of false thinking and expectations of British families and the way they live. Last summer in a college in Kent, Ali, a Middle East student in his forties wrote before his arrival to request a family willing to discuss the day’s news, no meat in his food and no alcohol. Then, after his second day in England, his host rang the college to say he wouldn’t eat the food she’d cooked for him. In fact, he had bought some food and asked her to cook it for him.

The college solved the problem by Ali taking lunch and evening meals at the college, where he could try out the food by eating a little at a time, and only take breakfast with his host. And it worked! “They later got on like a house on fire,” said Tony, one of his British classmates. “He had just not got on with the food.” EFL (English as a Foreign Language) communities can be tightly connected - when a Japanese student was shot dead in the United States some years ago after mistakenly entering the wrong house in fancy dress on the way to a Halloween party, and did not understand the word “freeze!”, the US became a no-go area. After the event the Japanese stopped all their courses and the US was declared “unsafe”.

So concerned has the UK EFL industry become to improve students’ understandings about the British culture that the British Council carried out research among foreign students to determine what they felt were the most important factors in their stay. They found that, although EFL courses were heavily praised, what concerned students was the quality of host families and welfare during their stay.

The result of their study helped to produce a Homestay Code of Practice. Since its launch earlier this year, some 20,000 certificates have been sent out to host families who have signed the Code. It has also been sent to 1,000 overseas travel agents. The aim is to make it serve as an international quality assurance scheme.

71. It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that Edward_______.

A.　　 was prompted to study lateral thinking because his son was lightly dyslexic

B.　　　 once taught businessmen how to think before he wrote for parents and children

C.　　　 was likely to improve children’s logic with his book

D.　　 gave a description of lateral thinking several years after his son was born

70. Caspar succeeded in applying to Oxford because______.

A.　　 he used in the exam the techniques provided by his father

B.　　　 he read the book Teach Your Child How to Think before the exam

C.　　　 he was careful and often overworked

D.　　 his school teachers thought he had a chance

69. What is TRUE about Caspar?

A.　　 He first described lateral thinking.　 B. He is often scolded by his teachers.

C. He is Edward’s son　　　　　　　　 D. He is an adventurous thinker.

68．What of the following can be the best title for the passage?

　A. Bomb Hidden in a Rubbish Bin　B. The Cause of the Explosion

　C. A Terrible Thing　　　　　　 　D. Market Blast Kills 1 ,Injures 21

.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B

Lateral(横向的)thinking, first described by Edward de None in 1967, is just a few years older than Edward’s son. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but Edward de Bone was so famous, Caspar’s parents worried that any time he would say something bright at school, his teachers might snap. “Where do you get that idea from?”

“We had to be careful and not to overdo it,” Edward admits. Now Caspar is at Oxford-which once looked unlikely because he is also slightly dyslexic(诵读困难). In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of his school teachers thought he had a chance. “So then we did several thinking sessions,” his father says, “using my techniques and, when he went up for the exam, he did extremely well.” Soon after, Edward de Bone decided to write his latest book Teach Your Child How to Think, in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brainstorming businessmen into informal exercises for parents and children to share.

Thinking is traditionally regarded as something done in a logical order, and everybody knows that children aren’t very logical. So isn’t it an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think? “ You know,” Edward de Bone says,” if you examine people’s thinking, it is quite unusual to find faults of logic. But the faults of perception(知觉)are huge! Often we think ineffectively because we take too limited a view.

Teach Your Child How to Think offers lessons in perception improvement, of clearly seeing the implications of something you are saying and of exploring the alternatives.

67．Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

　A. One passer- by, identified only as Zhang, saw the man throwing a bomb into a bin.

　B. Some customers in restaurants were injured.

　C. The writer didn’t get to the scene.　　 　D. All customers in shops got hurt.