Question

Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using the approaches taken by actors, and English teachers will be encouraged to let pupils walk around the classroom rather than read the plays while pupils are sitting at their desks.
Within the English curriculum(課程) you tend to look at a play text as a piece of literature rather than performance. But you can’t possibly understand Shakespeare’s language if you’re just reading it in your head. Shakespeare is difficult; it’s not a 21stcentury text. You have to use different ways to understand it.
The new teaching way focuses on how actors come to understand Shakespeare’s language. In fact actors have the same nervousness about Shakespeare’s language as young people in schools do. But in six to eight weeks they get to a place of complete confidence about the play. Pupils can do as well.
Exercises devised are to let children aged 11 to 14 imitate the methods of professional actors. Written and oral assessments developed alongside the lessons will show how well students have understood the texts.
In one task pupils will work on creating four key physical figures of king, warrior(勇士), lover and joker, finding which lines of their chosen character go with those features first and then acting them out. Through this they can examine how a character such as Macbeth can switch dramatically within one scene from soldier to kingly figure to trick planner. It’s really creative but you’re still getting a really wonderful model of understanding. It’s miles away from a “chalk and talk” method.
Educators think Shakespeare should be a central part of every young person’s education. Developing a love of Shakespeare at a young age often leads to a lifelong passion for literature and helps to improve a child’s reading and writing.
小題1:How will young people learn Shakespeare?

A．Reading them aloud.	B．Reciting them.
C．Cooperating with actors.	D．Acting them out.

小題2:You cannot understand Shakespeare’s words easily because________.

A．they are pieces of literature	B．their expressions are different
C．ordinary people cannot understand them	D．they are performances

小題3:The underlined sentence “It’s miles away from a ‘chalk and talk’ method.” In Paragraph 5 means_____.

A．Chalk and talk are far away from each other

B．It is much better than the traditional way

C．Chalk and talk are quite different

D．By chalk and talk we can understand Shakespeare

小題4:What’s the best title of the reading passage?

A．The New Approach to Shakespeare

B．The Introduction to Shakespeare

C．How to act Shakespeare’s plays

D．Shakespeare’s works in the English curriculum

Answer 1

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:A

試題分析:本文是一篇說明文，說明了十一歲學習莎士比亞使用演員的方法，英語教師讓學生在教室里走來走去表演，而不是閱讀。學習莎士比亞語言需要不同的方法，重點在于怎樣讓演員理解莎士比亞語言
小題1:細節(jié)題，由第一段第一行Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using the approaches taken by actors,可以知道答案，故選D。
小題2:推理題。由第二段倒數(shù)第二行Shakespeare is difficult; it’s not a 21stcentury text. You have to use different ways to understand it.可以推出答案，所以選B。
小題3:推理題，由第二段倒數(shù)第二行it’s not a 21stcentury text. You have to use different ways to understand it可以推出答案，所以選B
小題4:推理題，由文章的主要意思“使用新的方法學習莎士比亞語言”可以推出答案，所以選A
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