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
He landed in this country when he was 4 years old without a word of English, and there he has recently graduated with honors fro
He landed in this country when he was 4 years old without a word of English, and there he has recently graduated with honors fro
admin
2011-05-16
26
问题
He landed in this country when he was 4 years old without a word of English, and there he has recently graduated with honors from Loyola Academy.
An immigrant kid whose family rents an apartment in a city two-flat, he attended the North Shore school with full scholarship. All the aunts and uncles were so proud that they made their way from the old country or from various corners of this country to celebrate his graduation.
A debate is raging about whether immigrant children first should be taught English, then their other subjects;or whether they should be taught other subjects in their native tongue as they are more gradually introduced to English over two to three years.
California voters recently banished the gradual approach — bilingual education — in favor of immersion in the English language. The Chicago Public Schools in February put a three-year deadline on moving into all English classes in most cases. But that was never an issue for this graduate, and it never came up for discussion at his party. Relatives and friends laughed and reminisced in their native tongue, inside and outside, on sofas and lawn chairs. Before long, the instruments came out, old world music filled the air and the traditional dancing began.
Like many immigrant children, the graduate listens to his parents in the old language and responds to them in English. During a year after arriving here and enrolling in a Chicago Public School he was speaking fluent English with an American accent so strong that his parents would roll their eyes.
But fluency had not come easily; it required a year of total immersion in English, including a teacher who never could seem to learn how to pronounce his name correctly. " He’d come home crying, " his mother said.
Now, you can’t hear a trace of his original language in his voice. The switch, at least for him, has been complete; a matter of personal preference early on, he says, but now to the point where he has trouble remembering how to speak his first language at all.
But he still understands.
At the graduation party, his father asked for a beer in the native tongue, and the young man tossed him a can without missing a beat.
What the Chicago Public schools prefers to in language education is
选项
A、the gradual approach.
B、the immersion.
C、English teaching first.
D、the debate over the issue.
答案
A
解析
文章第四段:The chicago public school in February put a three—year deadline on moving into all English classes in most cases.在2月份,芝加哥公学,给了3年期限,让移民学生在这3年内慢慢地进人英语教学的课堂。由此可见,芝加哥公学校选择逐步进入的语言教学方式。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/rPxd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
WhenhediedinAprilof1983,Dr.JoelHildebrandwas101yearsold,whohadbeenmarriedforseventy-fiveyears,andhadtaugh
In1990,thenumberofjobshavingnothingtodowithcomputersintheUniteStateswillbereducedto______.
Howmanystreetsaddressesdoesthecomputercontainabout?
In1971therewereabout3,700millionpeopleintheworld.Ifthepopulationwere【C1】______evenlyovertheearth’ssurfacet
Thenewspapermustprovideforthereaderthefacts,unalloyed,unslanted,objectivelyselectedfacts.Butinthesedaysofcomp
Ihavenoticedthatchildrenarenotevenbeingschoolinsocialgraces.AtaSundaybrunch,aclownwasmakingballoonanima
TheOrganizationforEconomicCo-operationandDevelopment(OECD)conservativelyestimatesthat,by2005,worldwideelectronic
1977本题考查考生对于时间信息的听辨能力。原句为“Hislastrolewasinthe1977televisionmovie‘Don’tPush,I’llChargeWhenI’mReady.’”
Allthewisdomoftheages,allthestoriesthathavedelightedmankindforcenturies,areeasilyandcheaply【21】______toal
Whatcropsdoesthefarmergrow?
随机试题
阅读《春江花月夜》中的最后八句,回答文后问题。昨夜闲潭梦落花,可怜春半不还家。江水流春去欲尽,江潭落月复西斜。斜月沉沉藏海雾,碣石潇湘无限路。不知乘月几人归?落花摇情满江树。(1)这几句表达了怎样的情感?是用哪些事
A胃B十二指肠C空肠D回肠E结肠胆盐的主要吸收部位是
肺结核
工程项目合同体系包括()。
尊重求助者,意味着对求助者()。
性别化
人民警察的(),是指人民警察依法履行职务,完成各项任务的实际本领,是公安专业知识和专业技能的综合体现。
采用邻接表存储的图的广度优先遍历算法类似于树的()。
设随机变量X,Y相互独立,它们的分布函数为Fx(x),FY(y),则Z=max{X,Y)的分布函数为().
下面程序的输出结果是#include<stdio.h>main(){inti=010,j=10;Printf(“%d,%d”,++i,j--);}
最新回复
(
0
)