专业八级改错练习 第76期

Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is
expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, and __1__
few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing
foreign languages. Now there are many reasons about this, __2__
some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest
that the fundamental reason why people in general do not
speak foreign languages very better than they do is that __3__
they fail to grasp the true name of the problem of learning
to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling
it by the right way. Far too many people fail to realize __4__
that pronounce a foreign language is a skill, one that__5__
needs careful training of a special kind, and one that
cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of himself. __6__
I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the
importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical
teaching, the branch of study concerning with speaking the__7__
language. So the first point I want to make is that English
pronunciation must be taught; the teacher may be prepared to __8__
devote some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole
attitude to the subject he should get the student to feel
that here is a matter worth of receiving his close attention.__9__
So, there should be occasions where other aspects of English, __10__
such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to
take a secondary place.