Exercise 11. Read the following
passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions.
ARE TRADITIONAL WAYS OF LEARNING THE BEST?
Read about some
alternative schools of thought…
One school in
Hampshire, UK, offers 24-hour teaching. The children can decide when or if they
come to school. The school is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., for 364 days a year
and provides online teaching throughout the night. The idea is that pupils
don't have to come to school and they can decide when they want to study.
Cheryl Heron, the head teacher, said “Some students learn better at night. Some
students learn better in the morning.” Cheryl believes that if children are
bored, they will not come to school. “Why must teaching only be conducted in a
classroom? You can teach a child without him ever coming to school.”
Steiner schools
encourage creativity and free thinking so children can study art, music and
gardening as well as science and history. They don’t have to learn to read and
write at an early age. At some Steiner schools the teachers can’t use
textbooks. They talk to the children, who learn by listening. Every morning the
children have to go to special music and movement classes called “eurhythmy”,
which help them learn to concentrate. Very young children learn foreign
languages through music and song. Another difference from traditional schools
is that at Steiner schools you don't have to do any tests or exams.
A child learning
music with the Suzuki method has to start as young as possible. Even
two-year-old children can learn to play difficult pieces of classical music,
often on the violin. They do this by
watching and listening. They learn by copying, just like they learn their
mother tongue. The child has to join in, but doesn't have to get it right.
“They soon learn that they mustn't stop every time they make a mistake. They
just carry on,” said one Suzuki trainer. The children have to practise for
hours every day and they give performances once a week, so they learn quickly.
“The parents must be involved too,”
said the trainer, “or it just doesn't work.”
123. Which of the following is NOT
true about 24-hour teaching?
A. Students can
come to school from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
B. Students can
study online at night.
C. Students can
choose the time to study.
D. Some students
need to study in the morning and some need to study at night.
124. According to Cheryl Heron,
teaching ____.
A. should happen
throughout the night
B. is not
necessarily carried out in class
C. is for
children who will not come to school
D. must be
around the year
125. Steiner schools don't ____.
A. encourage
children's creativity and free thinking
B. allow
teachers to teach things out of textbooks
C. teach reading
and writing to young children
D. teach music
to children
126. Which of the following is TRUE
about Steiner schools?
A. They are different
from traditional schools.
B. Young
children are not taught foreign languages.
C. Students must
concentrate on music.
D. Students have
to do exams and tests.
127. Which of the following is the
most suitable title for the third paragraph?
A. Traditional
ways of teaching
B. 24-hour
teaching
C. Learn by
listening
D. Starting
young
128. Students learning music with
Suzuki method ____.
A. must learn
difficult music .
B. like to learn
their mother tongue
C. stop when
they make mistakes
D. start at an
early age
129. The word “this” in paragraph 3 refers to ____.
A. starting as
young as possible
B. the violin
C. playing
difficult pieces of music
D. learning
their mother tongue
130. The word “involved” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. engaged
B. encouraging
C. accepting
D. rejecting
Unit 3. BECOMING INDEPENDENT
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