南外测试认准四大招之4：阅读基础

奥数网 2015-03-18 21:19:30

　　导语：南京外国语小升初招生过程中的英语能力测试到底考什么呢？认准“四大招”帮助考生顺利过关。第四招：阅读基础。想要轻松地、有把握地应对南外的小升初英语综合能力测试，综合性的阅读是基础，而且好处多多。

　　第四招：阅读基础

　　“异国风情”部分考查了学生的跨文化交际能力，给出6篇短文，分别介绍了英国的篝火节、意大利的美食、新西兰的kiwi鸟、夏威夷岛屿等。——选材非常的好，是引导综合性阅读的正确方向。

　　做个对比就明白是怎么回事了。

　　先看一篇我们常见的基础教育英语课程中给小学生们准备的阅读篇章：

　　My name is Alice Green. I'm an American girl. I'm thirteen. I have two brothers. One is Jack, the other is Tom. We go to school five days a week. We stay at home on Saturdays and Sundays. We are in the same school. My father is a worker. My mother is a teacher. My mother often says China is great and Chinese food is good. The Chinese people are very friendly. I like singing. My brother likes playing football. We all like watching TV. What about you? Do you like watching TV?

　　类似的流水帐一样的阅读短文还有：我的学校——我的学校很大又很漂亮，有漂亮的花儿和树木。我们学校有......层楼、教室、学生和老师。我们班级在3楼。我们班有......张桌子和椅子，还有一台电视！我们班有......名学生，其中......名男生，......名女生。我们学校还有一个大图书馆，里面有好多书！我们都喜欢在图书馆看书！）

　　要不就是：Ben 是一名来自美国的学生，他今年十二岁了，他讲英语，但是他不会说汉语。他有个妹妹叫Mary, 今年7岁，在二1班。Ben在我们六3班。我们俩是好朋友。他教我学习英语，我教他学习汉语，放学后我们一起在操场上踢足球。

　　再看关于新西兰的kiwi 鸟的阅读篇章：

　　The kiwi lives only in New Zealand. It is a very strange bird because it cannot fly. The kiwi is the same size as a chicken. It has no wings or tail. It does not have feathers like other birds. Its feathers look like hair. Each foot has four toes. Its beak is very long.

　　A kiwi likes to have a lot of trees around it. It sleeps during the day because the sunlight hurts its eyes. It can smell things very well. It smells things better than most birds do. The kiwi's eggs are very big.

　　There are only a few kiwis in New Zealand now. People do not often see them. The government says that people cannot kill kiwis. New Zealanders want their kiwis to live.

　　There is a picture of a kiwi on New Zealand money. People from New Zealand are sometimes called "kiwis."

　　这是一篇有内容的阅读篇章，让我们知道了新西兰的奇特的kiwi鸟～

　　如果持续这样的阅读，学生还会获得更多的关于动物的信息：阿拉伯和中亚的骆驼、北极熊、南极的企鹅、非洲的河马；

　　更多的综合性的阅读还有：有关生活时尚的“TV in life", "Around the world", "Making friends on the Internet", "Advertisements"...

　　还有植物的、科技的、体育的......都是学生成长年华中息息相关的信息，也是他们从综合性的英语阅读中最能提高英语实用技能的重要途径～

　　语言学习的根本目的是运用。抛开南外摇号考试的争议，可以说南外小升初英文测试卷的命题方向是对的，确实有很好的导向性。

　　——问题是，目前小学（也包括中学）的英文教学一如既往地注重语法语言点的反复操练，和英语这门外语在日常生活和学习中的实际运用是没有多大关系的。

　　想要轻松地、有把握地应对南外的小升初英语综合能力测试，综合性的阅读是基础，而且好处多多。