首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、Encourage the growth of reading. B、Change people’s attitudes to reading. C、Show how reading methods have been improved. D、Expl
A、Encourage the growth of reading. B、Change people’s attitudes to reading. C、Show how reading methods have been improved. D、Expl
admin
2011-04-04
87
问题
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term "reading" undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.
One should be careful, however, in assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a distraction to others. Examination of factors related to the historical development of silent reading reveals that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
The 19th century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy, and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, so the number of potential listeners decreased, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices. There reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.
Towards the end of 20th century there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information, and over whether the reading material such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its virtues are, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the mass media on the one hand and by books and magazines for a specialized readership on the other. The social, cultural, and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term "reading" implied.
26.Why was reading aloud commonplace before the 19th century?
27.What did the development of silent reading during the 19th century indicate?
28.What are educationalists still arguing about?
29.What is the speaker attempting to do?
选项
A、Encourage the growth of reading.
B、Change people’s attitudes to reading.
C、Show how reading methods have been improved.
D、Explain how present-day reading habits developed.
答案
D
解析
选项均为原形动词表明,本题可能考查说话者的意图。短文开头就提出reading aloud和silent reading两种阅读方式,接下来对这两种方式的产生和演变进行了详细说明,短文结尾还通过对阅读材料价值的讨论来说明时代的发展会改变人们对于“阅读”的理解。由此可见,短文主要讲的是今天阅读习惯的发展变化,故答案为[D]。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ASo7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Theneedtoexercisethememory.B、Howthebraindiffersfromotherbodytissues.C、Theunconsciouslearningofaphysicalact
TheFutureoftheBBCAsaboygrowingupinthe1930sintheMidlands,NormanPainting,thesonofarailway-man,listened
Animationmeansmakingthingswhicharelifelesscomeliveand【S1】______.move.Sinceearliesttimes,peoplehavealw
A、It’saconcert.B、It’sacircus.C、It’sagame.D、It’samovie.B综合推断题。女士说朋友带自己去看了太阳剧团(CirqueduSoleil)的表演.男士问太阳剧团和其他马戏团区别在哪儿
A、Heshouldhavereadthebookinsteadofgoingtothemovie.B、Heshouldhavegonetothemovieinsteadofreadingthebook.C、
TheAmericaneconomicsystemisorganizedaroundabasicallyprivateenterprise.It’s【B1】______economyinwhichconsumersdeter
Doyouwanttoliveforever?Bytheyear2050,youmightactuallygetyourwish—providingyouarewillingtoleaveyourbiolog
A、Regularservice.B、Overnightexpress.C、Samedaydelivery.D、Priorityservice.D综合推断题。男士向女士推荐了一种优先服务,可以保证包裹在三天后到达,男士最后还建议女士带包裹
A、Hedoesn’twantanewprinteranymore,B、Hedoesn’thaveenoughmoneyyet.C、Hehasjustboughttheprinterrecently.D、Helo
Wearepreparedto____________(采取武力)ifnegotiationfailed.
随机试题
质量改进的第一步是()
Mostmenandwomenpassthroughlifewithouteverconsideringorcriticizing【1】theirownconditionsorthoseoftheworldatlar
下列哪一项常可提示早期乳癌
核酶是指
A.A级差错B.B级差错C.C级差错D.D级差错E.Ⅰ级差错
周某和孙某是夫妇俩,周某于2005年前往美国留学,并在美国定居、工作。后来回国投资,但是仍然居住于美国,在国内的工厂委托他人管理。周某长期在国外居住,对于其妻孙某和他们的孩子不闻不问,其妻向我国人民法院提起诉讼,要求周某履行其扶养义务。那么,我国人民法院应
个人贷款管理中的“贷款面谈、借款合同面签制度”是个人贷款的基本准则,也是我国银行业金融机构稳健经营的基本经验。()
世界性的三大宗教为()。
计算不定积分∫[x]|sinπx|dx如(x≥0),其中[x]表示不大于x的最大整数.
关键字ASC和DESC分别表示【】的含义。
最新回复
(
0
)