2019年GRE考试综合阅读模拟试题及答案

2019

年

GRE

考试 综合阅读模拟试题及答案

1800 Thomas Dilworth’s New Guide to the English Dialogue

was being widely used to teach reading in the United States.

Dilworth's primer, unlike earlier ones, stressed the

importance of children’s understanding what they read. While

it is in fact unlikely that children would have recognized

all the vocabulary Dilworth used, that was at least his

stated goal. Dilworth recognized that primers should enable

children to decode words from print with the form of language

they already knew

：

speech. In contrast, many earlier authors

assumed that, just as introductory Latin texts taught

children an unknown language, introductory English texts

should teach English as if it, too, were an unknown

language

—

such their esoteric choice of vocabulary, it in

effect became unknown.

1. According to the passage, the “earlier authors”

adopted a model for English instruction that

A. mirrored the practice used in Latin instruction

B. was originally formulated by Dilworth

C. was less esoteric than that adopted by Dilworth

D. stressed familiarity with the peculiarities of

English spelling

E. emphasized the importance of fluent and articulate

speech