Would-be language teachers everywhere have one thing in common; they all want some recognition of their professional status and

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问题     Would-be language teachers everywhere have one thing in common; they all want some recognition of their professional status and skills, and a job. The former requirement is obviously important on a personal level, but it is vital if you are to have any chance of finding work.
    Ten years ago, the situation was very different. In virtually every developing country, and in many developed countries as well, being a native English speaker was enough to get you employed as an English teacher.
    Now employers will only look at teachers who have the knowledge, the skills and aptitudes to teach English effectively. The result of this has been to raise non-native English teachers to the same status as their native counterparts—something they have always deserved but seldom enjoyed. Non-natives are now happy—linguistic discrimination is a thing of the past.
    An ongoing research project, funded by the University of Cambridge, asked a sample of teachers, teacher educators and employers in more than 40 countries whether they regard the native/non-native speakers distinction as being at all important. "NO" was the answer. As long as candidates could teach and had the required level of English, it didn’t matter who they were and where they came from. Thus, a new form of discrimination—this time justified because it singled out the unqualified—liberated the linguistically oppressed. But the Cambridge project did more than just that; it confirmed that the needs of native and non-native teachers are extremely similar.
Questions:
The selection of English teachers used to be mainly based on______.

选项 A、whether or not he has the ability to teach English very well
B、whether or not he is an English native speaker
C、whether or not he possesses the English knowledge
D、whether or not he has the professional status and skills

答案B

解析 第1题问过去选择英语老师主要以什么为依据。问题的正确答案可以通过利用查阅式阅读法在第二段中找到相关内容,然后进行推断。第二段明确指出:10年前,几乎在每个发展中国家和许多发达国家,人们能否被雇做英语老师主要看你是否是以英语为母语的人,只此一条就足够了。因此,问题的正确答案应是B。
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