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Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language; but few are even moderat

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问题     Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language; but few are even moderately proficient at pronouncing foreign languages. The fundamental reason why people do not speak foreign languages very well is that they fail to grasp the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling it in the right way. Many people just fail to realize pronouncing a foreign language is a skill one that needs careful training and one that can’t be acquired by just leaving it to take care of itself. Even teachers tend to neglect the branch of study concerned with speaking the language. So the first point to make here is that English pronunciation must be taught; the teacher must be prepared to devote some lessen time to this. And by his whole attitude to the subject the teacher should get students to feel that here is a matter worthy of receiving close attention. So there should be occasions when other aspects of English such as grammar or spelling are allowed for the moment to take second place.
    Apart from the time given to pronunciation, there are two more requirements for the teacher: knowledge and technique.
    The teacher should be in possession of the necessary information. It is possible to get from books some idea of speech mechanics, to get a clear mental picture of the relationship between the sounds of different languages, between the speech habits of English people and those of the students. Unless the teacher has such a picture, any comments he may make on his students’ pronunciation are unlikely to be of much use, and lesson time spent on pronunciation may well be wasted.
    But it does not follow that the teacher can teach pronunciation successfully as soon as he has read the necessary books. It depends after that what he makes of his knowledge; and this is a matter of technique. Now the first and most important part of a language teacher’s technique is his own performance, his ability to demonstrate the spoken language, in every detail of articulation as well as in fluent speaking, so that the students’ latent capacity for imitation is given the fullest scope and encouragement. The teacher, then, should be as perfect a model in this respect as he can make himself. And to supplement his own performance, however satisfactory this may be, the modern teacher has at his disposal recordings and radio, to supply the authentic voices of native speakers.
How might the teacher find himself wasting lesson time?
选项 A、By spending lesson time on pronunciation.
B、By not using books on speech mechanics on pronunciation.
C、By not giving students a clear mental picture of the difference between sounds.
D、By making ill-informed comments upon students’ pronunciation.
答案D
解析 句意推断题。参见第3段最后一句：如果教师头脑里对不同语言的发音习惯没有明确的概念(a clear mental picture)，那么他对学生发音的评论也将不大可能起到多少作用，花在发音教学方面的课堂时间也可能是种浪费。故选D(由于教师自己发音知识了解不多，对学生发音的评论也是不全面的，因而浪费了课堂时间)。
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