There is a popular belief among parents that schools are no longer interested inspelling .No school I have taught in has ever _____ spelling or considered it unimportantas a basic skill. There are, however , vastly different ideas about how to teach it , or howmuch _____ it must be given over general language development and writing ability. Theproblem is , how to encourage a child to express himself freely and _____ in writing without holding him back with the complexities of spelling?If spelling become the only focal point of his teacher’s interest, clearly a __4__child will be likely to “play safe”. He will tend to write only words within his spelling range,choosing to avoid __5__ language. That’s why teachers often __6__ the early use ofdictionaries and pay attention to content rather than technical ability.I was once shocked to read on the bottom of a sensitive piece of writing abouta personal experience ：“ This work is __7__ !There are far too many spelling errors andyour writing is illegible( 難以辨認(rèn)的 ).” It may have been a sharP__8__ of the pupil’stechnical abilities in writing, but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omittedto read the essay, which __9__ some beautiful expressions of the child’s deePfeelings.The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors, but if his priorities had centredon the child’s ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the presentation would havegiven the pupil more __10__ to seek improvement.

　　A)priority 　　B)criticism C)contained D)clearlyE)adventurous F ) discourage G)motivation 　　H)terribleI)ignored J)difficult 　　K)encourage L)expressedM)confidently 　　N)bright O)motive L)expressed

　　Answers:

　　1. 選 I )。 由該句中的 has 可知，此處應(yīng)填動(dòng)詞過去式，且表達(dá)的含義應(yīng)和后面的 consider…unimportant 相近，故應(yīng)排除 contained 和 expressed而選擇 ignored 。

　　2. 選 A )。 此處應(yīng)填名詞，但能與后面 over 構(gòu)成固定搭配的名詞只有 priority ，故排除 了 criticism 和 motivation 。

　　3. 選 M). 由空格前面的 and 可知，此處應(yīng)填副詞和 freely 并列。從句意來理解，在沒有拼寫困難的情況下，怎樣鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生自由且 …… 地表達(dá)自己，選項(xiàng)中只有 confidently “自信地“符合題意。

　　4. 選 N )。 很明顯這里應(yīng)填形容詞，選項(xiàng)中 terrible ， difficult 后接事物名詞 something ，只有 adventurous 和 bright 可用來形容 somebody ( child )，再由后面的play safe“不冒險(xiǎn)”，可排除adventurous而選擇bright。

　　5. 選 E )。 由前一句中的 be likely to “ play safe ”和空格前的 avoid可以推知，此處所填詞的意思應(yīng)與play safe表達(dá)的意思相反，故選項(xiàng)中只有adventurous符合題意。

　　6. 選 K )。 很明顯此處應(yīng)填動(dòng)詞的一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)，可選項(xiàng)有 encourage和 persuade 。由 That’s why 知本句與前一句構(gòu)成因果關(guān)系，而前一句說的是學(xué)生往往會(huì)用他們拼寫范圍內(nèi)的詞寫文章，從而選擇避免用那些不會(huì)的詞，故由此可推知此句應(yīng)理解為老師鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生用字典，因此排除 persuade 而選encourage。

　　7. 選 H )。 此處應(yīng)填形容詞。由空格后面的 too many spelling errors和illegible可知，這篇文章是寫的很糟，而不是很難理解。故排除difficult而選terrible。

　　8. 選 B )。 此處應(yīng)填名詞。由后半句中 a sad reflection on the teacher可知，前半句是在指責(zé)學(xué)生，故選項(xiàng)中只有criticism符合題意。

　　9. 選 C )。 此處填動(dòng)詞過去式，本句中由 which 引導(dǎo)的從句是對 essay的解釋，剩余選項(xiàng)中 contained 和 expressed ，根據(jù)句意，文章 …… 兒童內(nèi)心感受的一些好的表達(dá)，故只有 contained 符合題意。

　　10. 選 G )。 此處應(yīng)填名詞。根據(jù)句意，如果老師更注重學(xué)生思想的表達(dá)的話，會(huì)給學(xué)生更大的動(dòng)力去尋求提高;故排除 motive “動(dòng)機(jī)，原因”而選 motivation 。