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课件网) Section 1 Welcome to the unit & Reading Unit 4 Exploring literature Ⅰ. 话题拓展阅读。 Literature is an important part of a total language arts programme at all grade levels because of the many benefits it offers.① Literature provides pleasure for listeners and readers. It is a relaxing escape from daily problems, and it fills leisure moments. Making time for recreational reading and using high－quality literature help to develop enthusiastic readers and improve achievements.② Developing a love of literature as a recreational activity is possibly the most important outcome of a literature programme. Literature builds experience. Through reading, children expand their horizons through vicarious(间接感受到的) experiences. They visit new places, gain new experiences, and meet new people. They learn about the past as well as the present and learn about a variety of cultures, including their own. They discover the common goals and similar emotions found in people of all times and places. Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff, a hard survival story, is set in Ireland during the potato hunger of 1845, and Patricia Polacco's The Butterfly, deals with Nazis, resistance, and Jewish persecution(迫害) during World War Ⅱ. Literature provides a language model for those who hear and read it. Good literature exposes children to correct sentence patterns, standard story structures, and varied word usage. Children for whom English is a second language can improve their English with the interesting context, and all children benefit from new vocabulary that is woven into the stories.③ Literature develops thinking skills. Discussions of literature bring out reasoning related to sequence, cause and effect, character motivation, predictions, visualization of actions, characters and settings, critical analysis of the story, and creative responses. Literature helps children deal with their problems. By finding out about the problems of others through books, children receive insights into dealing with their own problems, a process called bibliotherapy.④ Children might identify with Gilly, living angrily in a foster home in Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins, or with Mary Alice, a city girl forced to live with her grandma in a “hick town” in Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder. 【语篇导读】本文是一篇议论文。文章讲述了文学是语言艺术项目中非常重要的一部分，它有很多好处。 一、 阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 ( )1. What is likely to be the most significant consequence of a literature programme A. The habit of reading for pleasure. B. The lessons learnt from works. C. The achievements of language skills. D. The ways of thinking developed by reading. 【解析】细节理解题。根据第二段中“Developing a love of literature as a recreational activity is possibly the most important outcome of a literature programme.”可知，将对文学的热爱当成娱乐活动来培养，可能是一个文学项目 ... ...
