2017年6月大学英语六级阅读理解每日一练（18）
距离2017年6月大学英语六级考试还有一个半月的时间，已经报名的同学备考一定要抓紧，不要临时抱佛脚。新东方网英语六级频道为大家整理了英语六级阅读理解每日一练，每天一道题考试不担心。Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the
skill of pronouncing his own language; but few people are even moderately
proficient at pronouncing foreign languages. Now there are many reasons for
this, some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest that the
fundamental reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very
much better than they do 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. Far too many people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign
language is a skill—one that needs careful training of a special kind, and one
that cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of itself. I think even
teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to
neglect, in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerned with
speaking the language. So the first point I want to make is that English
pronunciation must be taught; the teacher should be prepared to devote some of
the lesson time to this, and should get the student to feel that here is a
matter worthy of receiving his 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 this question of the time given to pronunciation, there are two
other requirements for the teacher: the first, knowledge; the second,
technique.
It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the necessary
information. This can generally be obtained from books. It is possible to get
from books some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general
phonetic theory. It is also possible in this way to get a clear mental picture
of the relationship between the sounds of different languages, between the
speech habits of English people and those, say, of your 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 time wasted.
26. What does the writer actually say about pronouncing foreign
languages?
A. Only a few people are really proficient.
B. No one is really an expert in the skill.
C. There aren't many people who are even fairly good.
D. There are even some people who are moderately proficient.
27. The writer argues that going about the problem of pronunciation in the
wrong way is
A. an obvious cause of not grasping the problem correctly
B. a fundamental consequence of not speaking well
C. a consequence of not grasping the problem correctly
D. not an obvious cause of speaking poorly
28. The best way of learning to speak a foreign language, he suggests, is
by_______.
A. picking it up naturally as a child
B. learning from a native speaker
C. not concentrating on pronunciation as such
D. undertaking systematic work
29. The value the student puts on correct speech habits depends
upon_______.
A. how closely he attends to the matter
B. whether it is English that is being taught
C. his teacher's approach to pronunciation
D. the importance normally given to grammar and spelling
30. How might the teacher find himself wasting lesson time?
A. By spending lesson time on pronunciation.
B. By making ill-informed comments upon pronunciation.
C. By not using books on phonetics in the classroom.
D. By not giving students a clear mental picture of the difference between
sounds.
26. C 27. C 28. D 29. C
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