華中科技大學 2009年招收博士研究生入學考試試題

華中科技大學 2009年招收博士研究生入學考試試題

[table=419.4pt][tr][td=1,1,699]Part I Cloze (0.5x20=10%)
Directions: In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
The teacher of reading is involved, whether this is consciously realized or not, in the development of a literate society. And every teacher, 1 , needs to determine what level of literacy is  2  by society, what role he or she should take in  3  the desired standard of literacy, and what the implications of literacy are in a world context.
The Unesco report presents a world  4  of literacy. Too often we limit our thoughts to the  5  small proportion of illiterates in our own country and fail to see it in its international  6 .
The problems  7  developing nations are also facing industrialized nations. Literacy, as the report points out, is ‘inextricably intertwined with other aspects of national development… (and) … national development as a whole is bound  8  with the world context’. Literacy is not a by-product of social and economical development – it is a  9 of that development. Literacy can help people to function more effectively in a changing  10  and ideally will enable the individual to change the environment so that it functions more effectively.
Literacy progammes  11  in different countries have taken and are taking different  12  to the problem: for example the involvement of voluntary non-governmental organizations, which  13  the importance of seeing literacy not as a condition imposed on people but as a consequence of active participation  14  society. People can learn from the attempts of other countries to provide as  15  ‘literacy environment’.
Who are the ‘illiterates’ and how do we define them? At what point do we decide that illiteracy ends and literacy begins? Robert Hillerich  16  these questions. An illiterate, he finds, ‘may mean anything from one who has no formal schooling to one who has attended four years or less, to one who is unable to read or write at the level necessary to  17  successfully in his social position.’ Literacy, he points out, is not something one either has or has not got: ‘Any definition of literacy must recognize this quality as a continuum, representing all  18  of development.’