Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B,C or D on your answer sheet toindicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 39.
How do children learn about wildlife? And is what they learn the sort of thing they should be learning? It is my belief that children should not just be acquiring knowledge of animals but also developing attitudes and feelings towards them based on exposure to the real lives of animals in their natural habitats. But is this happening?
Some research in this area indicates that it is not. Learning about animals in school is often completely disconnected from the real lives of real animals, with the result that children often end up with little or no understanding or lasting knowledge of them. They learn factual information about animals, aimed at enabling them to identify them and have various abstract ideas about them, but that is the extent of their learning. Children's storybooks tend to personify animals as characters rather than teach about them.
For direct contact with wild and international animals, the only opportunity most children have is visiting a zoo. The educational benefit of this for children is often given as the main reason for doing it but research has shown that zoo visits seldom add to children's knowledge of animals – the animals are simply like exhibits in a museum that the children look at without engaging with them as living creatures. Children who belong to wildlife or environmental organizations or who watch wildlife TV programmes, however, show significantly higher knowledge than any other group of children studied in research. The studies show that if children learn about animals in their natural habitats, particularly through wildlife-based activities, they know more about them than they do as a result of visiting zoos or learning about them in the classroom.
Research has also been done into the attitudes of children towards animals. It shows that in general terms, children form strong attachments to individual animals, usually their pets, but do not have strong feelings for animals in general. This attitude is the norm regardless of the amount or kind of learning about animals they have at school. However, those children who watch television wildlife programmes show an interest in and affection for wildlife in its natural environment, and their regard for animals in general is higher.
(Adapted from New English File, by Christina Latham -Koenig, Oxford University Press)
It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that children's attitudes to animals ______.
A. depend on whether or not they have pets
B. differ from what adults might expect them to be
C. based on how much they know about the animals
D. are not affected by what they learn about them at school
How do children learn about wildlife? And is what they learn the sort of thing they should be learning? It is my belief that children should not just be acquiring knowledge of animals but also developing attitudes and feelings towards them based on exposure to the real lives of animals in their natural habitats. But is this happening?
Some research in this area indicates that it is not. Learning about animals in school is often completely disconnected from the real lives of real animals, with the result that children often end up with little or no understanding or lasting knowledge of them. They learn factual information about animals, aimed at enabling them to identify them and have various abstract ideas about them, but that is the extent of their learning. Children's storybooks tend to personify animals as characters rather than teach about them.
For direct contact with wild and international animals, the only opportunity most children have is visiting a zoo. The educational benefit of this for children is often given as the main reason for doing it but research has shown that zoo visits seldom add to children's knowledge of animals – the animals are simply like exhibits in a museum that the children look at without engaging with them as living creatures. Children who belong to wildlife or environmental organizations or who watch wildlife TV programmes, however, show significantly higher knowledge than any other group of children studied in research. The studies show that if children learn about animals in their natural habitats, particularly through wildlife-based activities, they know more about them than they do as a result of visiting zoos or learning about them in the classroom.
Research has also been done into the attitudes of children towards animals. It shows that in general terms, children form strong attachments to individual animals, usually their pets, but do not have strong feelings for animals in general. This attitude is the norm regardless of the amount or kind of learning about animals they have at school. However, those children who watch television wildlife programmes show an interest in and affection for wildlife in its natural environment, and their regard for animals in general is higher.
(Adapted from New English File, by Christina Latham -Koenig, Oxford University Press)
It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that children's attitudes to animals ______.
A. depend on whether or not they have pets
B. differ from what adults might expect them to be
C. based on how much they know about the animals
D. are not affected by what they learn about them at school
Kiến thức:Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Từ đoạn 4 có thể suy ra rằng thái độ của trẻ em đối với động vật ______.
A. phụ thuộc vào việc chúng có vật nuôi hay không
B. khác với những gì người lớn có thể mong đợi ở chúng
C. dựa trên mức độ hiểu biết của chúng về các loài động vật
D. không bị ảnh hưởng bởi những gì học được ở trường
Thông tin: However, those children who watch television wildlife programmes show an interest in and affection for wildlife in its natural environment, and their regard for animals in general is higher.
Tạm dịch: Tuy nhiên, những trẻ em xem các chương trình về động vật hoang dã trên truyền hình thể hiện sự quan tâm và yêu mến đối với động vật hoang dã trong môi trường tự nhiên và sự quan tâm của chúng đối với động vật nói chung cao hơn.
Giải thích:
Từ đoạn 4 có thể suy ra rằng thái độ của trẻ em đối với động vật ______.
A. phụ thuộc vào việc chúng có vật nuôi hay không
B. khác với những gì người lớn có thể mong đợi ở chúng
C. dựa trên mức độ hiểu biết của chúng về các loài động vật
D. không bị ảnh hưởng bởi những gì học được ở trường
Thông tin: However, those children who watch television wildlife programmes show an interest in and affection for wildlife in its natural environment, and their regard for animals in general is higher.
Tạm dịch: Tuy nhiên, những trẻ em xem các chương trình về động vật hoang dã trên truyền hình thể hiện sự quan tâm và yêu mến đối với động vật hoang dã trong môi trường tự nhiên và sự quan tâm của chúng đối với động vật nói chung cao hơn.
Đáp án C.