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The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High
The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High
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2012-07-17
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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 his grade 9 level had been established.
My topic is not standards nor its decline (降低). What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer young; 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 (缺陷). 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.
The author’s attitude towards the speaker’s remarks is______.
选项
A、neutral
B、positive
C、critical
D、compromising
答案
C
解析
本题是一道关于作者的态度类问题。作者指出那位演讲人已不是年轻人,他已有了16年的教学经验,他是个成熟的成年人,而他却在用自己的成熟与年轻人的尚未成熟相比,说年轻人的英语不可救药。另外,根据前两题的分析,我们不难看出,作者对演讲人的讲话持批判态度。因此,本题的正确答案应是C。
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