We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experienc

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问题     We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming(把…按能力分班)pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!
    Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.
    In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to cooperate, to share, and to develop their leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.
    Sometimes the pupils work in pairs:sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work:it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.
The writer’s purpose in writing this passage is to( ).

选项 A、argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class
B、recommend pair work and group work for classroom activities
C、offer advice on the proper use of the library
D、emphasize the importance of appropriate formal classroom teaching

答案D

解析 本题的问题是:作者写这篇文章的目的是什么。文章第一段以“mixed-ability teaching”这一有利于学生发展的教学方法引出提升学生能力的话题;接着第二段提到学生能力的提升不仅仅是智力方面的提高。而是要全方面能力的提升;第三段便举出课堂上提升能力的一种教学方法——group work;最后一段作者提出学生学习还可以通过work in pairs,work on individual tasks and assignments等其他方法来学习。通过文章脉络整理得到本题答案为D。
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